Just because we do our best here in Canada to not be like our American cousins … it doesn’t mean that a good number of us think, act and believe like our southern relatives.
Honestly, I live in northern Ontario where we shouldn’t have so much American influence but it’s so strange to meet and talk to outright Trump supporters with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ stickers, don’t trend on me and Confederate flags. It’s especially strange when some back woods people I know barely have any knowledge of Canadian politics but enjoy mentioning their second amendment rights and the right to bear arms (both of which is an American thing and not part of Canadian history)
It’s just the side effects of news media like Fox news.
They probably had a bit of conservative bent to their politics to begin with but when you toss in daily hourly propaganda to these people, their ideas start to sound normal and even necessary to them.
I also have a bunch of friends in southern Ontario around Hamilton and Haldimand region and you can’t believe the number of boomers down there who just leave Fox News on all day in the background. They watch more American news than they do Canadian and they are the same group that will call the pubic broadcaster CBC as communist or socialist. It’s amazing how powerful propaganda can be to a whole group of people. It may not fool everyone, but it fools enough of them to make difference.
I hate the fact that my country infects Canada with that filth. You’re wonderful neighbors, and we were already enough trouble before Fox “News” came along.
There’s a significant number of them that are Canadian born. Honestly, it speaks a lot to the influence of fox news and other right wing propaganda outlets… these people weren’t the target - the propaganda isn’t even relevant to them - and yet they’re just as brainwashed as maga idiots.
Just because we do our best here in Canada to not be like our American cousins … it doesn’t mean that a good number of us think, act and believe like our southern relatives.
Honestly, I live in northern Ontario where we shouldn’t have so much American influence but it’s so strange to meet and talk to outright Trump supporters with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ stickers, don’t trend on me and Confederate flags. It’s especially strange when some back woods people I know barely have any knowledge of Canadian politics but enjoy mentioning their second amendment rights and the right to bear arms (both of which is an American thing and not part of Canadian history)
That’s extremely strange. I’m curious - in your experiences, are these usually Canadian-born people or do they sound like they could be from America?
It’s just the side effects of news media like Fox news.
They probably had a bit of conservative bent to their politics to begin with but when you toss in daily hourly propaganda to these people, their ideas start to sound normal and even necessary to them.
I also have a bunch of friends in southern Ontario around Hamilton and Haldimand region and you can’t believe the number of boomers down there who just leave Fox News on all day in the background. They watch more American news than they do Canadian and they are the same group that will call the pubic broadcaster CBC as communist or socialist. It’s amazing how powerful propaganda can be to a whole group of people. It may not fool everyone, but it fools enough of them to make difference.
I hate the fact that my country infects Canada with that filth. You’re wonderful neighbors, and we were already enough trouble before Fox “News” came along.
I share the same sentiment. We’re a bad influence, we are.
Right? And not even in a “cool kid who plays by their own rules” kind of way.
Well we didn’t have the best parents. Those two had been bickering do so long they have a “hundred years war”
There’s a significant number of them that are Canadian born. Honestly, it speaks a lot to the influence of fox news and other right wing propaganda outlets… these people weren’t the target - the propaganda isn’t even relevant to them - and yet they’re just as brainwashed as maga idiots.
It’s happening in Alberta too.