(1) Or that people live in bubbles. But no one is contesting that point.Cherry's not wrong about "undecided" voters supporting Trump. GAF isn't representative of the entire voting block, but when threads like "do you actually know anyone voting for Trump" exist in a two-party country, you have to think that they're remaining silent. (1)
I'm disappointed that a country that elected and then re-elected its first black president wouldn't elect their first female president. But the world has changed a lot since then. I definitely think domestic terrorism, Syrian refugees, and Brexit had an effect. (2)
Then I thought about Canada's federal election last year. Yes, we elected a Liberal majority with a more progressive prime minister. You could even draw a parallel with the US election (a prevailing theme was experience vs. change). But the Liberals only got 39% of the popular vote, compared to 32% for the Conservatives; not a huge margin. And remember the Conservatives were dogged with controversy: Mike Duffy and Senate expenses, Robocalls, the niqab, a "Barbaric Practices" tip line, etc. All that and they still got 32% of the vote.
So Canada did better, but not by much.
(2) You're making some mildly specious connections imo here. I can't follow the train of thought between the different sentences.
(3) Please. Canada has 4 major left-leaning parties that accounted for 67.3% of the vote. So what's your point here? Canada is by no means perfect and we are vulnerable to the same trends happening in the US and Europe, but the false near equivalency stuff is bogus. It's like people are trying to hard to balance the arrogance toward Americans (which itself needs to be tempered).
Yeah I was speaking more to Canada. I figure Ontario uses Native America more commonly because they're more likely to adopt the American lexicon."Native American" is far and away the go-to term in the US