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View submission: Canadian pride surges amid Trump’s tariffs, sovereignty threats: poll - National
Interesting that as national pride rises, the political messaging that 'Canada is broken' starts to fall flat.
Comment by Ok_Position1959 at 12/03/2025 at 14:01 UTC
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Because it was largely propaganda to begin with. Canada has some issues (like all countries) but to say it’s broken is just a flat out hyperbolic lie.
Comment by Duffleupagus at 12/03/2025 at 13:58 UTC
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Well, I would say go google “should I celebrate Canada day” and see what results you get. For years, the left has basically said if you’re pro-Canadian you’re a colonizing racist. We have to judge everything in the past by today’s standards so the flag shouldn’t be flown, Canada day shouldn’t be celebrated, the Canadian anthem must keep changing, Trudeau said we will be the first post-national state so we essentially don’t have a collective rallying cry. But now that patriotism is okay on their terms, everyone can now be patriotic because it’s not considered colonizing or racist. I’m all for being patriotic now, I just wish the loudest people were also cool with it a couple years ago.
Comment by physicaldiscs at 12/03/2025 at 15:51 UTC
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The two aren't mutually exclusive. People can't see that. Your pride in something should be the reason you want to fix it. Things weren't going well before Trump, and people were tired of being gaslit that everything was fine. The first step to solving a problem is recognizing, so of course it resonated.
This swell of patriotism has a bad aftertaste, like diet soda. It didn't come about because of the love of Canada. It came about because of the hate of being American. We haven't made Canada better. We just did what we've always done and acted grateful we aren't worse.
What happens when Trump is gone and that idea goes with him, even temporarily? We will slide back into the same apathy and things won't have actually improvedm
Comment by New-Low-5769 at 12/03/2025 at 19:45 UTC
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its still broken
but we are mad at something else right now.