The US: No-Go Zone

Yes, this is a rant. image by AI; my own prompt Travel by Canadians to the US is down almost 50% from last year’s already drastically reduced levels. Part of this is a quiet Canadian protest against US imperialist foreign policy — Trump’s arrogant assumption that Canadians wouldn’t find the idea of being a US state repulsive, his threats of annexation, his endless tariff wars against former US allies, and the US Uniparty’s financial, political, and military support for Israel’s genocides and the Empire’s brutal, illegal, endless wars, while so many Americans are suffering poverty, precarity, joblessness, and illness that the government refuses to pay a penny to relieve. But the larger part of our reticence to travel to the US, I think, is fear. It is increasingly obvious that the collapse of the ‘rule of law’ in the US, and the declaration by government officials that they are ‘above the law’, and that their ICE and other paramilitary forces are exempt from prosecution for their…