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Originally Posted by kermitology
Modern conservatism across the globe has become nationalist isolationism. It’s happening here with Scheer and Rempel, Brazil just elected a right wing nationalist, Germany, Sweden, etc are all seeing rising nationalist parties.
That’s modern conservatism. It’s socially conservative, nationalist, and focused on cutting taxes without regard for deficits. #### the future generations, I want to pay less taxes now!
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We are living in a 1970s and 80s conservative Utopia right now. Conservatism laregely won out, and the only place it had to go was towards fascism.
The economic debates of the 60s are long over. We all live in societies where the government spends more than it takes in, where income taxes are laregely unrecognizable to our forebearers etc. The us democratic party is happy to adopt conservative positions of 70s and 80s conservatism. Peter Lougheed and Joe Clark are positively left wing figures now. Corporate monopolies are the economic order if the day rather than a scourge to be combated.
Scheer/remple have no other subject to discuss that will engender votes. there is little separation in economic policies between federal conservatives and liberals, the only place left to make any hay is the social side of things.
The next step after that is weakening government and societal institutions to either cast them as failures or to paint the proposed conservative/nationalist solutions as the only practical means of addressing the problem. "The only way to fix AGT is to.privatize it!" "The long form census isn't necessary to meet the needs of Canadians!" "The government wants to kill business by taxing carbon emissions!" "I'm Max bernier and I want a people's party!"
The common denominator is the concentration of media in private hands. We get told this is normal, that it isn't immediately outrageous that the rebel even exists let alone has the official opposition as a notable guest, or that American conservatives have their own entire extremist media arm.
And we will all laugh at the stupid Americans and then watch as our fellow Canadians will follow a patently absurd charlattan, like Canada's other Ted Cruz, Jason Kenney, off a cliff.