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You have illustrated just how unhinged you are in the rest of your comments. You don't seem to understand that we are all trying to live our relatively normal lives while also figuring out what to do about this.

Here's a hypothetical: I have two children under 6, my wife works full-time, I work 50 hours a week to keep a roof over my family's heads and food in their mouths, I also make 2/3 of our household income, we have no real support system to speak of. We're in Texas, so the allies I have are extremely limited, and do not include any of my family other than my brother, who doesn't live here. We're trying to figure out how to get out of here but it's difficult and frankly I don't know if we can afford it.

So you're suggesting I do what? Go buy a gun for me and the three able bodied liberals I know (also fathers of young children) , kiss my family goodbye, drive for 2 days, get fired, and go do ourselves a good ol domestic terrorism? So you can feel better about the hell that WE not you are living through? And all because I committed the crime of being born in the wrong place and unable to escape? Get fucked.

While this may be true for a lot of Americans, plenty are essentially trapped. Our education system basically ensures that we don't have the language skills or cultural understanding to get a decent job in most any other country. And the work style that has been drilled into us since birth isn't welcome in most other countries either.

Many of us have kids born before this path was clearly the way things are going. I wouldn't choose to have kids these days in the US unless I had like family outside the country so I knew I had an escape path.

Those that can leave, have been doing so. The rest are or feel trapped. They simply have too much to lose, and little chance of a decent life if they leave.

I for example can't fight back against my government in the most effective ways because I have kids. And they deserve a chance to make their own decisions about polotics. But if I say damage something important, they won't likely get much of a choice since I won't be able to support them anymore. And because of our healthcare system, no job means extremely substandard healthcare. So like my autistic son would probably never be able to manage his own life. That is the delema many of us face.

This American gets what you’re saying. I’m trying to figure out what I can do without ending up homeless.

Unless you've managed to destroy economic liberalism in your own country, it's happening to you too. That train is going to hit you awfully soon.

As another Canadian: I hate the US government, oligarchs, the loss of separation between church and state, and fascists. The US government has had terrible and negligent policies for much longer than the last 2 months. It's just now there's not even attempts to mask it and not nearly enough official resistance to it. America is being gutted beyond recognition as the same entity it was. I can empathize with what is, frankly, a rant from in4apenny even as I downvoted their post.

However I have many American friends I do NOT hate, and who do not hate me or covet my country. I do NOT agree with the "fuck everyone, you're all a blight" position. I could write many arguments why, but the most important one is for many decades our countries have been stronger for being allies. If I want Canada to be the greatest nation it can be I have to recognize the contribution of a friendly USA that existed basically uninterrupted until two months ago. I 100% support the "elbows up, fight back hard" movement that is sweeping my nation, but with an eye for historical context of shared success. I hope for a return to that friendship when/if you folks manage to restore sanity. But that restoration is either going to be very messy or not happen at all, so we'll see if the elbows ever get to come down again.

Well, if push came to shove, I'd stand with you anyway.

The common folk of the world need to find solidarity. Because this is gonna spread...