> we tend to "overthrow" the preferred Presidential candidate of one of those two factions through a democratic process Well the Ukrainians did that by gatheri

> we tend to "overthrow" the preferred Presidential candidate of one of those two factions through a democratic process Well the Ukrainians did that by gathering a large crowd and dislodging a President they don't like. The USA is not there yet, but the latest events around Trump point that it is an option to contemplate in the future. > describes Canada to a large extent; there is a large, geographically concentrated faction of Francophones and a similarly large, geographically concentrated faction of Anglophones. Imagine Canada passing laws that the only language of education and government services should be French. Because that's basically what happened. It all started when the aforementioned large crowd overthrew the Eastern-elected president and then cancelled the law giving the East an option to use their mother's tongue (Russian). And then Vancouver saying Au Revoir and joining the US. More specifically, Victoria and Vancouver Island with its naval bases joining the US outright, and Vancouver city becoming a "Republic of Vancouver" besieged by Canadian army. Then Canada spends a decade explaining everybody (in French) that it's a US proxy led by some rednecks who moved in from Seattle. Not all of them are even Canadian! Whereas people in Toronto begrudgingly begin learning French, the ones who want to show loyalty to the state do so by switching to Frenglish. New textbooks issued by Quebec intellectual circles depict the "many wars" that Canada has fought against the USA and England all the times. Some of those are technically correct. The wars where Canada has fought on the side of England or USA are skipped. 24 of August becoming the main pompious state military holiday.