• MyFeetOwnMySoul
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    Yeah, k, but how would you even start to combat grassroots interference like that? At least with China there is an organization that you can monitor and counteract. A far as I can see, with this type of “interference” we’re stuck chasing ghosts and battleing hydras.

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      1 year ago

      Long term, by growing our population.

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          The same reason it works for the US. A bigger population, all else being equal, means higher economic output and therefore larger political influence internationally relative to other players. If Canada had 1B population, groups in the US would have found it much harder to exert any significant influence over our politics given how much louder than them our voices would be. By voices think all types political voces, individual, collective, etc.

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            I think there is an underlying assumption that our current situation with the right is largely due to external influences. I’m of the opinion, that while the expression of the ideology is globally crowdsourced, we would have a similar percentage of wingnuts with or without American influence.

            It seems to me that the economic disenfranchisement of the average Canadian is the primary force polarizing people politically, which would also explain the simultaneous resurgence of fascism globally (notibly, outside of the anglosphere)