Just got told to 'check my privilege' for implying Canadian democracy is currently much healthier than US democracy. Let me state it explicitly: for all Canada's problems - and boy do we have some - the US is a fucking calamity.
Our institutions are healthier, our politicians generally more sane, our politics less polarized, our electoral system and financing rules, voter restrictions, protections against gerrymandering all profoundly more fair, our top court less partisan... I could go on and on.
We have some profound and systemic injustices ongoing to work through but to pretend our democracy is in the same sort of shambles as the US is just the most eye roll-inducing moral relativism.
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