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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You can't teach smart. This is the second time in a short period of time that these views have come out.
Its not like these were statements from 10 years ago. There are two inflammatory in a short period of time
Has Trudeau actually stood out and done anything memorable in Parliament I can't recall anything.
you can usually see who is going to be a leader and who is not very quickly in politics.
Lets be frank, our mayor is incredibly inexperienced in politics, and he's been decent. Klein was incredible in his inexperience.
You could argue that Harper was a pretty heavy political mover and shaker even when he first got into politics.
Truedeau is pretty much being exposed as a guy without substance or brains.
He's not being exposed as an inexperienced politician.
I would hope that moderate Liberal's cringe when he speaks, but then again the DM stuff might be showing that the more radical elements in the Liberal party are taking roots.
The Liberal's are a party that's been shifting from centrist to the left in a very NDP manner since they lost Paul Martin, the problem is that the NDP does left far better and are eating the Liberal support base among the lefties. The Conservatives are devouring their immigrant voter base.
The Liberal's really need to get pummeled in the next election if Trudeau wins the leadership, I'm talking two seat territory here, that way the reformist elements in the party can bounce out the red Liberals
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Its not like Trudeau himself is going to shape their platform. There will be a team and they will position themselves as centrists because its politically convienient. Any party that wants to win knows that and does it. Its exactly what Harper did, was more extreme when he was younger and positioned himself more and more moderate. And he was the opposite of polished in his youth. Awkward and often angry in interviews, much worse than Trudeau IMO interview ability wise. He learned and got better.
The thing is, there are certain issues like abortion, gun control and marijuana where the Conservatives won't touch the majority point of view just on principles, so unless our society gets more religious or conservative in a hurry, I think the Liberals will out flank them in the race to the centre. I don't buy that Trudeau will run on a super lefty platform strategically, I think thats old people fearing his Dad.
As for him being dumb, well he may be, I don't think that but I don't know it any more than you do. I've made many decisions and said many things I look back on as dbaggish and I wouldn't be defined as dumb by conventional standards. I learn from peoples reactions and the consequences, get stronger and move on.