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Originally Posted by indes
Anecdotal but I haven't talked to a single CPC supporter that can tell me one policy they are on board with from the CPC. Not a single one. Just "Trudeau", "lost liberal decade", "WEF". It's absolutely unreal. There needs to be a questionnaire to vote, people watch some tiktoks and get outraged about "raising capital gains tax" when they couldn't rub 2 nickels together.
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I know I’m like a broken record on this, but the motivating impulse of politics today is negative polarization. People don’t vote for X because they love X - they vote for X because they hate and fear Y.
So it’s not surprising a lot people voting for the CPC don’t know or care much about the CPC’s policies. And that cuts both ways. The Canadian electorate flocked to Carney not because he has tremendous charisma or an inspiring platform - they flocked to him because they hate and fear Trump (and by extension the CPC), and coalesced around one party to stop them.