The Collapse of America

 

Graffiti found on the site of the now demolished Motel Raphael,
12 September 2016.

1. Trump's betrayal

Donald Trump has betrayed Canada's long-term relationship with the United States, it was a relationship based on mutual respect and shared values, in doing this Trump has betrayed a close neighbour and friend. Trump has decided that Canada should be annexed by the United States and become their 51st State. He thinks this kind of statement, of annexing a neighbour, is normal, that it is nothing out of the ordinary. A country’s sovereignty is sacred and, yet, Trump wants to destroy our sovereignty, and he presents this as though it is for our own good, but he presumes too much. Trump thinks that he can take, steal, grab, make a deal for whatever he wants; he also wants to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Gaza. On whose authority does he want to do this? "On the authority of the United States of America” Trump says, as though this means anything to Canadians, to Denmark or Greenland, to Panama, or to the people of Gaza. We have never seen anything like this, but it reminds us of Hitler's invasion and occupation of Poland, Hungary, France, The Netherlands, and other European countries in the late 1930s; it reminds us of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The statements by President Trump that Canada should be the United States' "51st State", that our prime minister should be addressed as "Governor Trudeau",  shows such contempt and disrespect for us that it threatens our present and future relationship with the United States of America; he has betrayed the higher ideals on which the United States was founded.

2. Trump’s lies                                                

Donald Trump’s lies, and he lies constantly, including that the United States subsidizes Canada and there would be no Canada without this subsidy; it's all lies, it's all a fabrication by someone who has no adherence to truth. Trump’s lies compound and make worse his aggression on Canada, it is exactly Hitler’s Big Lie; this is frightening because there is little defence against a liar who has political and military power. Trump’s ostensible reason for imposing tariffs against Canada are punishment for allowing fentanyl and illegal migrants to enter the United States from Canada; in fact, one pound of fentanyl entered the United States from Canada as opposed to 1,580 pounds of fentanyl from Mexico (www.USAfacts.org); less than one percent of illegal migrants to the United States came from Canada as compared to the number of illegal migrants from Mexico (National Post, 04 February 2025). Canadians have been nothing but positive, supportive, and  a true ally of the United States; we are their greatest trading partner, we are the best neighbour they could have and now Trump aims to destroy Canada and our relationship with the United States. This is the evil one might expect from an enemy, not an old and trusted friend. 

3.  Armed invasion of Canada

It is true that Canada has not spent as much as we should have on our military, but even if we had it would not have prevented the possibility of an American military invasion of Canada. This is all the doing of Donald Trump. If you ask ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, about the American’s invading Canada, as I have, you are met with disbelief. But allow me to entertain this possibility: I doubt such an invasion would take long, our citizens are not armed, our military has been weakened by underfunding, and resistance by average citizens (most of whom live within a two hour drive from the Canadian-American border) would be futile against the world's greatest military force. Montreal is about an hour’s drive from Plattsburgh, New York; Vancouver is near Bellingham, WA; Toronto can be reached from Buffalo; Windsor from Detroit. There is little we can do against such an enemy. My four-part discussion with ChatGPT on an American invasion of Canada will appear here beginning next week.

4. The collapse of America

We thought Donald Trump was a populist, we didn’t understand that he is in fact a fascist and that his election was part of a worldwide new fascist era. Our conflict with the United States is solely the result of Donald Trump’s narcissism and lies, it is not with the American people. Trump, a man who lies and has no respect for others, a narcissistic bully, is a symptom of America's moral collapse. Here is a long poem I wrote in 2020, "The Collapse of America". American society is heading for inevitable collapse, consider the following: America has become a society of division, violence, loss of spirituality, loss of humility, loss of modesty, extreme extroversion, loss of integrity, total emphasis on material things, violent entertainment, addiction, Woke culture; it is a country that has no moral compass, it is a country that is now a part of a New Fascist Era.