To make things worse, the U.S. has no alternative to Trump. Both parties are stunningly corrupt. Neither has anything to offer.
Mind you, Canada's Liberals and Conservatives are really quite similar to America's Democrats and Republicans and democrats
In general, the U.S. empire and the old British one are similar. and that's not an accident. (Yes, Churchill was as murderous and racist and evil as they come. The British Empire murdered over 400 million, starved millions to death (Again Churchill was big on that, and enslaved millions, especially in China and India. And one of Washington's first acts was to begin the mass murder of Americas native people. ---it impressed Hitler so much that his holocaust was modelled on the American example.) We have to remember that George Washington was British - and very typical of the British upper class. He didn't believe in democracy. In his U.S., the very poor were excluded from voting. From it's first days, the U.S was =and is - governed by the upper class - for the upper class.
Ditto for Canada's Liberals and Conservatives.
Oh - as a footnote, when Britain began killing the Boers of South America to steal their gold fields, it put pressue on Canada to join in on the war. Actually, the colonies were not required to fight British wars. Nor did Britain need them to beat the Boers. No. But the British knew a war with Germany was coming - and it wanted to set a precedent for the colonies to fight that war.
And it worked. Many years later, the U.S. used this as a model to make other countries fight wars for American billionaires. That's why Canadians, since Korea, have fought U.S. wars in Korea, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, that's why we sent 'peacekeepers' to Haiti. Haiti had been a functioning democracy. Canada then chipped in at U.S. request to make sure the democracy was destroyed, and replaced by American thugs. (Our news media, of course, referred to this gangsterism.. as [eacekeeping.") Actually, do a lot of the American dirty work all over Latin America.
Almost all wars are fought to benefit the rich. That's what all the wars of the twentieth cenutry were about - including World Wars One and Two. (Ever wonder why the U.S. waited so long but then joined in on World War One? It used the war to steal parts of the British Empire. It worked like a charm with the British controlled oil fields of the middle east. But the U.S. was dismayed when Mao Tse Tung beat out both the British and Americans. You thought the Korean war was to save democracy in South Korea? Forget it. For a start, Korea was a stunningly corrupt dictatorship set up by the Japanese conquest of that land. And the Americans liked it like that.No. The real purpose of the Korean War was to get a base to conquer China - But Mao beat it.
News media always report out side good, and the other side as evil. So the Germans were evil in World War 2. (and we were evil in the German press. In reality in that war, the nation with the most evil record was Britain - with the U.S. not far behind.
We also, without mentioning it, also fully supported Hitler in his slaughter of the Jews. (It's no true that we didn't know about it.. Canada, the U.S. and Britain also actively supported the holocaust by turning back Jews who tried to escape.
