The Slow Decapitation of America
The powerful are winning the war against the institutions that protected society.
‘If anyone did want to do a Trump-style hostile takeover of Canada, they’d find plenty of eager helpers.’ Photo by DonkeyHotey, Creative Commons licensed.
It can’t happen here?
Canada has often enjoyed feeling superior to its rich, noisy, exciting neighbours. But we are almost like conjoined twins: we have families in the U.S. as well as trade ties. Many of us define success as making it in the States. If anyone did want to do a Trump-style hostile takeover of Canada, they’d find plenty of eager helpers.
We may certainly hope that Robert Mueller will save his country, and that an American Restoration will follow. In the process he could also stall the subversion of Canada. But even a post-Trump America will have close to a hundred million unrepentant Trumpists to deal with before it can rebuild its ties with the rest of the world.
In the meantime, we’re going to have to strengthen our own institutions — our Parliament, our government agencies, our courts, our media and our schools. If the world’s greatest superpower can be decapitated by its own people in less than two years, our own beheading could be accomplished in months.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/11/15/America-Slow-Decapitation/