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That's weird Canada had austerity in the 90s and we didn't get fascism.

• daveguy 5mo ago
  I think the article confuses "austerity" with lack of social programs. Canada has a huge safety net compared to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_Canada Essentially all the "warning conditions" that come out of austerity are also require a serious lack of safety net. Lack of savings, difficulty of childcare and healthcare, etc.
  • forinti 5mo ago
    Usually austerity means cuts to social programs and the consequences depend on the country's starting position.
• soco 5mo ago
  Fascism rise is also associated with perceived inequality rising. So if Canada didn't have a class of folks profiting immensely while others were hit, less fascism.
• jauntywundrkind 5mo ago
  I think ya'll should count yourselves very very lucky America became such a prolific visible rake stepper. There were scary scary things abrew, a rapid falling sentiment, festering under the all-too-common Fear Uncertainty and Doubt antagonist politics that is the hallmark of the the conservatism to fascism pipeline. I'm definitely applying some recency bias here, am not super atuned to the historical zeitgeist of the Canadian people. But there has been, over the years, a lot of strongmen esque not good things. And it seems like last year's election really avoided a very perilous further drop to madness by seeing what all a couple months of madness across the border looked like. Page with some polling numbers, brief in rundown, thar is at least directionally correct: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/34363/polling-average-canadian-election/ https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/34363/polling-average-can... But it would be nice to have some retellings of Canada's austerity & how that affected the people over the past two three decades! For sure!