• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I bet the number of Canadians willing to give up their healthcare plans is far less than 50% for our fucked up system.

    Canada becoming a state would immediately see the Republican party removed from office, and the Majory vote being far further in favor of health care reform. Aka they would vote in only senators and Congressmen who supported it. Now if they wanted to make sure the 39m people didn’t have more say than Texas, they would have to divide it into multiple states. This would create more senator positions as well, meaning more non Republican senators who block health care reform.

    Not only would Canada never support it, but it is clear that Trump never knows what the fuck he is on about.

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      17 days ago

      Don’t assume Canadians are well informed. The right-wing media and the Conservatives lie to Canadians too, and people believe what they’re told. In Ontario they have voted in, and voted back in, a government that is determined to dismantle public healthcare, and the voters seem not to even notice. At the federal level the Conservatives dishonestly blame the federal government for issues they know are provincial government matters, and people go along with that too and are all set to elect the Conservatives despite their having no positive proposals or intentions. Voters are easily duped.

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          17 days ago

          Canadian media is almost wholly right wing and owned by billionaires. Where it isn’t (e.g. CBC) the Conservatives are intent on shutting it down.