In America, talking politics at work is considered taboo. In Canada, it isn't; it's a literal pastime in Canada (it's like talking about baseball in the US).
Canadians on average therefore, talk more about politics than Americans do.
This is why Canada is so much more left wing than America. Free speech turns people closer to Canada's leftism over America's conservatism.
If right wingers like free speech so much, then alright; but keep in mind free speech shifts people to the left on average (at least on the Canada, America spectrum).
Oh pulease, you can’t possibly be swallowing that nonsense that these MAGA guys are spewing, right wingers do not support free speech.
From the beginning of his political career Trump has engaged in alarming rhetoric against the nation’s journalists, consistently and insidiously referred to the free press as the “enemy of the people”. In 2016 when Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem, exercising his right to free speech as a means of protesting police brutality and racial inequality, Trump viciously attacked him and pressured the NFL to fire him.
Donald Trump has said that he will govern as a “dictator” on “day one” if he wins office again and has repeatedly vowed to weaponize government and seek retribution against the news media, showing complete disregard for the First Amendment protections. After Kamala Harris kicked Trump’s ass in the debate, he called for the FCC to take away ABC’s license, after Harris’ interview on CBS News just last week Trump called for the FCC to take away CBS’ license.
The right has created a wave of book banning, targeting race and racism, especially Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, Diversity, Gender Identification, and “woke ideology”, banning over 5100 books from schools and public libraries between July 2021 and December 2023. There has been a wave of bills targeting drag performances, where simply being gender nonconforming invokes penalties. Florida passed the “Stop WOKE Act” - that prohibits certain viewpoints in classroom instruction. It is legally forbidden in Florida for schools to teach that Slavery was not a good thing for black people. Gov. Ron DeSantis has threatened to prosecute television stations for running a political ad supporting an abortion-rights ballot measure and is currently being sued for the unconstitutional violation of free speech rights.
This is just a smattering of what Trump, and his right-wing cronies have done to challenge the first amendment and curtail free speech. Just because you hear the MAGA fascists blathering about Trumps right to misinformation and claiming “fact checking” is a violation of his free speech, doesn’t make it anything but misinformed rhetoric.
