This article doesn't get into the SoCreds, but has some interesting historical analysis of Alberta.

Silver linings, I guess.

Another thing that I think that surprises Americans is that Canada has very nearly the same urban/rural population percentages.
Which affects the politics a lot in the smaller population provinces (ahem Alberta & Sask)

I'm not normally a champagne type of person.
But I will be.

Lawyer: We're going to need some duplicates of these papers.

Rob: (deep breath)

Lawyer: Not. One. Word.

In a divorce lawyers office...

Lawyer: I am going to need your explicit authorization to act for you in this matter.

Rob (excitedly): You can do it!

The very nature of the US constitutional governmental organization (2 Senators/State regardless of population, Senate appointed SCOTUS, Electoral College) has very non-democratic tendencies that have been used and abused over time.

Just some thoughts bouncing around my head that I wanted to express

The responsibility for the majority of these can be laid at the feet of Republicans, but I certainly agree that Democrats either went along willingly, or we're apathetic.

Bush/Gore 2000, post 9/11 War on Terror/Pariot Act, Citizen's United, and of course Trump vs US.

Not an all-inclusive list, and some of the general carceralism and qualified immunity are more general-over-time things that I'd likely include too.

and also are likely to be more Canadian-moderate)

I believe that there are a bunch of important inflection points that have led down this path, The GOP Southern Strategy, pardon of Nixon, Reaganism and trickle down economics,...

I'm not sure if I 100% agree with you, (and that's ok!)
I have some thoughts, but I'd like to qualify them by saying that I am Canadian, so my thoughts are observational, not experiential. (imho, they don't carry as much weight as those who have lived through it...