I have said this over and over again: Canada is the most overrated of all the developed countries. The whole country is a gigantic house of cards propped up by real estate, with horrible service quality, terrible healthcare, no jobs, ZERO innovation, risk taking and entrepreneurship. Having lived and travelled extensively, most Canadians want a house somewhere in the woods instead of doing something meaningful with t…
I would posit that the US is headed down a similar road with christofascism in the red states. They seem to be in a race to the bottom when it comes to freedom and prosperity. Texas once moderated that but no more, I'm due to move out of this in a couple of months and probably in a nick of time. So Canada might not be alone.
The left has done many nice things to ensure human rights and hedonism (not saying that negatively) but in the process all the values and traditions they deemed unimportant in the name of progress are catching up with them and I only seeing this intensify over time unless blue states and Canada have a serious come to Jesus moment. The current reality of blue states is they can ONLY exist in a world where places even more regressive than the red states exist and supply them with a constant supply of population to burn through and oddly nobody on the left seems to be all that concerned with this even though it will collapse blue state values and economics in less than a century as global population plateaus.
The American red states don’t strike me as a paragon of morality but they do strike me as one of the most relatively sustainable and affluent and “normal” cultures in the developed world, and affluent goes a long way.
If you’re expecting Canada to be a refuge from a conservative wave you’re likely to be disappointed because it and the blue states have much of the same systemic problems and it will be pressured to reform in much the same way.