After reading this idiotic line, I stopped reading...not that the dumbass writer was making much sense anyway.
Some of the posters who replied are way too defensive about the US.
The writer isn't some leftist bashing the US in the way you think. He's saying what many conservatives and libertarians have been saying for decades--that our committment to TRUE freedom has waned and we move ever closer to a tyrannical national government and European-style socialism.
The only idiots in the thread are those reacting to the lines about the US. What he says is true, I don't know if Alberta would avoid it either, but it's true that the US is on a slide to Euro-socialism. The one hope we have is our guns and our still-independent spirit that burns in SOME of us.