You seem to more reasonable than most until you want to hang with the prog* squad. Don't be impervious to world history and events.
The dynamic U.S. economy has been doing well for several years while Canada has been in a form of structural stagnation. The U.S. is not threatened even though the threats of autocratic nations to other nations is sharper than ever. A reflection of the last fifty-sixty years tells us that is more normal than the period after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Arresting the pandemic in about a year was a miracle led by the United States.
In the heat of politics, it's easy to dismiss what's actually happening.
*progressive.
I am pessimistic because I see the downfall of the US not because of it's economy. Which indeed is great.
Since 2021 I have been to San Diego, San-Antonio, Seatle, Portland, San-Francisco, Cleveland, Boston, Philladerphia, Denver, DC, Chicago, Houston, Baltimore and Miami. The amount of desperate and homeless is tripled since 2019. Downtowns are ugly, scary and/or empty. The amount of empty commercial buildings is staggering. And we can include Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in the mix. Mix that with the impossibility to rent or having a mortgage at a decent price will lead to misery. People think all the looters do that for fun or because of the lack of possibility to jail them all for life... Fuck it they loot because the need whatever money they can! They are in surviving mode.
Now let in a few more millions more immigrants to the mix and there you go. Just like in France.
I am not against a more right government (conservator in Canada). I am against opening the way to a guy who is a lifetime of fraud. A known racist, a guy who has a history of not paying his sub-contractors, a convicted rapist, a guy who fraud a charity and a complete bully idiot, etc etc.. You see that has fuck all to do with politics. It has to do with decency. The potus should be a great team leader who should naturally earn respect not demand it.