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Originally Posted by btimbit
I'd be in absolute agreement with you if we had another decent choice. But we've seen Canadian Conservatism take a turn for the worst and I'm not going to hop on that train.
If they still had a normal leader like O'Toole, it'd be a different story. No thanks to the populist shill they're shoving down our throats now.
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I think Canadians have been mostly shielded from the nonsense through a mixture of denial and many examples being an ocean away.
Trump’s first term was a fluke and nobody believed he would what he said he would do leading up to this past election. His threats were idle and never meant to come to fruition, simple trolling or some “art of the deal” nonsense to pressure countries into getting what he wants. Project 2025 was a “conspiracy theory.” The guardrails were strong. And at home in Alberta, one of the most destructive far right provincial governments in history was OK to vote for so long as their investigation into themselves came out clean.
These aren’t exaggerations, they’re things posters here have said and believed, people more politically engaged than the average person.
But there’s no denial of it any more. And while it’s excusable for the layman who only reads the national post and never gives much a thought about politics otherwise to miss what’s actually happening, if someone is having conversations about politics then they’re already at a place where ignorance is no longer excusable.
Modern conservatism is far right, incredibly destructive, and does not give one #### about the economy other than using unrealistic, populist economic narratives to attract unknowing people to their cause. It’s a tool to get what they want: which is to destroy democratic, social institutions and remake countries in their socially regressive vision and hurt as many people as possible.
It’s insane. And it’s infected every level of politics in Canada and many countries around the world.
Thankfully Canadians still have an opportunity to stand up to it and say “no thanks” and force this ideology back to the shadows. Unfortunately some are, instead, concerned that Carney didn’t cite every instance of a reference back in university.