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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Slimeball is going a bit far but I agree with this 100%.
Because everthing today is so binary and often extreme, it’s assumed (and by a lot of posters here) that if you are a declared conservative you are some sort of ultra right wing Trump loving Maple MAGA.
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If you still support PP and the current direction of the CPC, you pretty much have to be or have to be totally forgiving or willingly ignorant of those aspects of the party.
There are plenty of conservatives or “undeclared” people who were
highly critical of Trudeau and the Liberals who have since taken huge issue with the CPC, PP, and their platform and campaign, while accurately seeing exactly what they’ve been asking for in the platform, actions, and approach of Mark Carney. Who among them have been accused since of being “maple Maga” or ultra right wing?
Pretty rare, I’d guess. Certainly not a lot of posters.
But on the other side, you’ve got conservatives turning around and calling these people bootlickers, suckers, and accusing them of being “fooled” because the leader they asked for came along and they proved themselves not to be “blue no matter who.”
Fact is, whether you’ve supported the Liberals, NDP, Greens, CPC, or whoever in the past, if we’re all rejecting the fascist, Trump-like, anti-Canadian rhetoric and far right actors that have infected and are influencing the modern CPC, then we’re all on the same page.