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Originally Posted by OldDutch
They did. It brought down the last era of Liberals.
Along the way the Liberals got smarter. They positioned themselves as the party of righteousness. Playing wedge issues and identity politics to position them as the party of virtue. Anyone against them as plain evil.
Its taken from Trump and American politics. If you use tribalism into a us vs them people will forgive anything you do and reject anything you feel is evil.
Look at the term Liberal in the US. Its an insult.
Look at Conservative here. It means out of touch, greedy evil people who will regress (insert social issue here).
Easy to fleece pockets when people look the other way.
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Based on a post like this I think it’s safe to say they definitely got you with that strategy. The only real question is who’s “they”.
Wedge issues are a liberal thing? There’s literally a video a few posts up of the opposition leader gaslighting Canadians and trying to paint the CBC as a propaganda machine without ever being able to provide proof that they’ve misreported anything.
IMO the biggest issue right now in Canadian politics isn’t the conservatives, or the liberals, or the NDP, or big oil, or unions or whoever else you want to target with your cookie cutter mad libs style arguments. The biggest issue is too many people believe manipulative, misleading and often hypocritical bull#### theories that people try to pass off as facts.