The psychology is simple: the public can be influenced if a few individuals can be influenced. Car prowl increases the crime rate. An increased crime rate increases further crime. Broken windows theory is controversial but even its detractors acknowledge that crime begets crime. What's hilarious, though, is that Colorado don't even rate. A guess? You've got some shitty insurance companies that saw a way to lower their claims without having to lower their premiums.
That thing's legendary, dawg. American victory in WWII was due partly to our available supply of materiel. Japan and Germany were out of gas; we were not. The more gas you have, the more sorties you can run. The more ships you can put to sea. The more tanks you can send across the Oder. Thus, stateside efforts during the war were largely given over to using every last bit of available supply and applying it to killing Japs and Nazis. Modern awareness, of course, is due to those incredulous 'tards over at Reddit, reposting from FunnyJunk because of course they did. It's not like this shit was underground. You probably recognize the bottom image.
I guess I’m more familiar with the Canadian propaganda which mainly seem to focus on victory bonds. This got me thinking though, our population is so god damn small compared to America. In 1939 we had just over 11 million people compared to 130.9 million in the states. You probably had more cars than we had people. Yup, apparently you guys had 26,501,443 vehicles by 1929 before we even had 11 million people. Not sure how much our own oil industry affected WW2 though, apparently we didn’t realize Alberta full potential until 1947 and instead imported from America up until then. Which I guess answers the question of how we became one big mostly happy country instead of a bunch of small countries constantly fighting. We were basically Canada, doing our thing and then we got resources after we had allies and all that set up. There’s probably more to that as well.
Friend of mine has dual citizenship. His bachelor's was in Canadian Studies. He told me once that to understand Canada, you need to understand that 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. Canada is a sovereign nation. I would never suggest otherwise. But as a sovereign nation, it is often culturally and economically beholden to a much more influential neighbor. Economically, demographically and politically speaking, California has more influence on world affairs than Canada. I had a (Canadian) film producer point out to me once that from an export standpoint, Chile has more more media distribution than Canada. When was the last time you saw a Chilean film? Heard a Chilean song? Read a Chilean book?
Ya I’m honestly not sure the last time I watched something Canadian other than a few things my friends have made and basically all my friends who graduated college/did something with their lives are in the industry so that probably says something. Come to think of it, the habit of pointing out when something was filmed in Canada but set in America is kind of weird. We do it all the time, like hey that’s Canada ! but they’re pretending it’s somewhere else because nobody would care otherwise. Damn.
That's because Canadian Content laws make it vastly cheaper to shoot in Canada than in California. And we hate you for it. Had a chat with the DIT on Tron. Producers wouldn't let him bring his own assistant - he had to hire a Canadian assistant. DIT didn't want a Canadian assistant, he wanted the guy he'd been working with for ten years. Offered to take a pay cut to pay the assistant out of his own share - talkin' $550 a day for four months. Was told by the production that they were saving so much in incentives that it would cost them money for him to pay his assistant himself. Next movie out? Yeah, they went with the Canadian assistant as DIT.