In the absence of a strong identity of their own, Canadians reacted to America’s shift to the right by shifting further to the left. The irony of the situation is that, in order to affirm their right to be their own country, they embraced an ideology that does not see the concept of “a country” as meaningful:
The only “anti-American” mode that Canadians can conceive is to shift left – i.e., a “nationalism” that ultimately coincides with the anti-nationalist trajectory of advanced liberalism.
https://www.postliberalorder.com/p/make-canada-conservative-again
Adolescents start the journey of becoming their own selves by rejecting the example of their parents. It’s a necessary stage in their journey towards adulthood but it’s not adulthood. They will only become adults when they make their own decisions without using their parents as a starting point.
Canadian national identity is still in this adolescent stage of confusing independence with what in reality is complete thralldom. There has never been a situation of US citizens making political decisions based on anything that happens in Canada. In this state of self-inflicted inequality, Canadian lamentations that Americans don’t take them seriously as a nation sound like a teenager’s pouting that mom and dad don’t respect him as a fully autonomous individual.
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