
If we keep China out, fine. There are certainly reasons enough. But that had better come with a real push for domestic EV manufacturing. ICE vehicle’s days are numbered outside pleasure/luxury use-cases, and it’s ridiculous to be importing the majority of such massive, heavy, and complex devices on which a majority of Canadians rely to at least some degree.
If things are going to be expensive either way, let me pay to support high-end Canadian jobs rather than cover shipping costs.
The conditions (captured media, broken education, economic slavery) explain widespread ignorance about how leopards are going to eat their faces, but not the apathy when it actually happens. And hopelessness only suppresses resistance until you run out of things to lose.
It’s not like there aren’t plenty of MAGA faithful currently Finding Out, either (and by that I specifically mean coming to realize either who the true oppressors are or what substantially worse looks like).
Whether I understand it or not, however, I must remember that no group of humans is fundamentally different from another. Whatever makes them different in aggregate form does come down to conditioning - possibly over generations, but conditioning nevertheless. That knowledge is all that keeps me from permanently succumbing to empathy fatigue.