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Originally Posted by btimbit
Totally. You see the same thing on reddit as well
I can only speak for myself, but for me personally I'm generally Conservative. Own lots of guns, trucks, former oilfield work, the whole deal. But in the last several years the right has moved farther right than I'm able to get on board with. So even though I still identify as, I dunno, centre right, the parties on the left are still closest to what I believe since the parties on the right are way too out there for me.
I think that some of the good Conservatives we've had in the past, people like Peter Lougheed, if they were to get into politics today it wouldn't be any of the modern Conservative parties they'd be joining
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I agree with you, but I think that if people like Lougheed joined the political game, they would be treated the same by most of the left, including being smeared, attacked, etc.
End of the day everyone wants to talk about how they would support a center-right candidate that was fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but the reason those candidates never come around is because in reality nobody actually agrees with fiscal conservatism anymore, and Canada has basically turned into a political system where it is us versus them, and by us I mean pay offs, corruption, scandals, political legislation to further driver voters away (C-21), refusal to work interprovincially, feds against provinces that they don't agree with, provinces against feds because they don't agree etc.
It doesn't matter how good a candidate would be, present a platform that talks about fiscal restraint of any kind, and you have no hope.
Which is why I find it amusing when some of the posters here 'claim' to support that elusive fiscally conservative / socially liberal position when it comes to 'that is the only way I vote CPC or conservative and there don't have a candidate like that available.'
In the meantime each new week we have another Liberal Party scandal going on. Quite amusing to watch.