It is completely normal for Quebecers to be passionate about American politics.
Firstly because we are neighbors of the empire of our time. Political movements south of the border have consequences in Quebec.
I add that as Westerners, we are also carried away by the torments of the American hyperpower.
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For example, we are right to want to secure the border in case possible migrants pile up there, whom the dominant discourse will fraudulently present as refugees.
That said, we must still invite those who, since Tuesday evening, have been very depressed, to calm down.
A public figure writes a letter to his daughter as if fascism had just come back to life in Washington.
Another seems to believe, which testifies to a staggering lack of culture, or an unfortunate mental Americanization, that the right to abortion will be compromised in Quebec because of possible decisions to this effect in the United States.
Except nothing like that will happen here.
I admit to being fascinated by the psychological fragility of our contemporaries who experience an electoral defeat like a personal existential collapse.
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It must be said that social networks, again, have a lot to do with it. They have encouraged, and perhaps even partially created, a culture of emotional outpouring where everyone is pushed to present themselves as a fragile little creature, demanding from the whole world to offer them gentleness, in addition to practicing at the same time. time a virtuous moral exhibitionism.
We do not sense in those who revolt against a democratic result this elementary thing that is political maturity, which is based on an elementary awareness: not everyone thinks the same thing. It’s even possible that my neighbor disagrees with me, without being an idiot.
Those who do not accept this will cry for a long time.
