![]() We will see violent rhetoric normalized by cultural figures like Tucker Carlson but also U.S. What are the likeliest problems? Most obviously, violent rhetoric tends to fuel violent actions. What happens when that anti-democratic rhetoric becomes the norm in the U.S.? The combination of media outlets like Fox News that have far-reaching impact and anti-democratic, authoritarian rhetoric is exactly a recipe for the contagious spread of the kinds of behaviours that can threaten our own democracy. What the 'freedom convoy' reveals about the ties among politics, police and the law They reject the use of democratic rhetoric in favour of authoritarian rhetoric, and they aim to dismantle the system that makes protest and free speech possible in the first place. The people in Ottawa aren’t protesters, they’re occupiers. The trucker convoy is one small example of what can happen here when the dangerous forms of anti-democratic rhetoric south of the border spread into Canada. Rioters loyal to Donald Trump climb the West Wall of the the U.S. 6, 2021, was not an isolated event but the beginning of something bigger. Spend an hour listening to someone like Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and Donald Trump supporter, and you’ll come away certain that the violence we all saw on Jan. election, but this is only one, narrow concern. Many are engaged in the battle to prevent the right wing from stealing the next U.S. 6 just a prelude?įor some reason, systematic and dispassionate analyses of what will happen if or when the American experiment with democracy ends have not happened, either in Canada or the U.S. ![]() Will all the predictions bear out? Maybe not, but the intellectual exercise of preparing for the worst can improve our decision-making and position Canada to succeed in times of crisis. ![]() More recently, predictions about the devastation that will result from the climate crisis are being used to drive public policy and political debate. Some of the most constructive academic work in the middle of the 20th century, after all, was motivated by doom-saying around nuclear war (Thomas Schelling’s Nobel Prize work on game theory, for example). ![]()
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