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Originally Posted by belsarius
What I am seeing, is the moderate conservatives are no longer putting up with the dumpster fire that modern conservative politics has turned into, and would rather shift a little left than go all the way to the crazy right.
And that used to be Canadian Politics for generations. Liberals to the centre and the PCs to the centre right. Both different, but close enough that you could switch back and forth without too much change in your daily life. That isn't the way anymore, and most moderates hate it because they are having to choose a side.
This forum is an overall right-leaning place, but Smith is just so far right that anything normal now looks left wing to her acolytes.
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As a moderate conservative, I absolutely agree with this post, especially the bolded part. Since the moderates seem to have disappeared on at least the leadership level, the voting choices have significantly more long term effects personally/financially than they used to. The middle used to be a good place to be