“I hope I’m wrong.”
It’s my impression that Canadians “identify” as the opposite of Americans. In their view, they are civilized and Americans are not. Civilized people do whatever their government tells them to do. Obedience is civilized. Their metric on this is the number of shopping carts that are not returned to the little parking lot corrals. In Canada, all obediently returned. In America, it’s the shopping cart wild west, with strays running blocks away, ending up stripped of their wheels and upside down in some bad neighborhood. Civilized is the opposite of American.
People who believe in Freedom and individual responsibility and that the government is here to serve the people, are considered uncivilized louts
Consider me a lout in capital letters