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Originally Posted by Bownesian
It could be that the Canadian population is made up of more than just the loud and most visceral posters on internet message boards and comment sections, who in a per-post basis are heavily over-represented by outraged Grits and Dippers.
In my Facebook feed for instance, I see 4-5 outrage posts a day from a select handful of my lefty friends while the majority of the others post nothing but stuff about their kids and their day and normal stuff and comment little on the political stuff while holding strongly conservative views. I think that happens here on CP as well because the non-conservative posters' tone is shrill, perpetually outraged and is usually focused on aspects of government that as a voter I don't give even one crap about (C-51 being high on that ever-growing list).
To circle back to Polling, this may be a kind of Shy Tory effect here in Canada where Conservatives are reluctant to speak their mind because of all the outrage noise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy_Tory_Factor |
That's funny. My feed is almost always full of hyper-conservative nonsense.
As for the tone of people here, I wouldn't say that the people of one extreme are anymore shrill or outraged than the other.
It's almost as though people with opposing viewpoints have opposing viewpoints and therefore, oppose each other.