Alberta had a referendum. The separatists lost.
Every government policy can be left to the states (ex: Alberta could maintain Medicare for all if it wanted too). Albertans didn’t care and they chose to remain in Canada.
The reason? The age of logic is over. Everyone is emotional now.
Emotional people don’t care about what’s practical; but they care about their IDENTITY.
This is for all races and all political parties. It’s why Canadians refuse to become American despite it being objectively logical; EMOTION (and they will often deny it being emotional, but that’s their emotion talking; identifying as emotional feels really bad).
It’s why men try and have sex without the desire to have a kid; EMOTION.
Its why people here think I Rage Bait; their EMOTIONS control their mind, so they make up a scary word to dismiss me.
It’s why people debate on here and may lie and say they changed a few issues on here, they almost never jump party. Obama will never be a Republican. Trump will never be a democrat.
EMOTION makes people think a certain way, logic may be used to justify after, but without the emotional spark, logic is useless.
Therefore, the only reason why people on here debate is they think it’s fun until the other side produces a witty argument they can’t refute, then they get very mad inside because the emotion can’t make them see the other side.
The age where logic works on people for political opinions they have is dead. Logic can be used for problem solving; but it can’t work in changing minds politically (except for immigrants who are new here and seem pretty unchangable once they voted red and Trump deported them regardless). Minnisota has very few immigrants; it’s voted pretty consistently over the past 40 yrs; always slightly blue.
But it takes an emotional shock to get someone to switch parties; logic doesn’t do it.