Last week of campaign and PP declares war against… Education (those damn wokies in public schools/military/etc). Trump populism to the end. Might as well, I guess.
ETA: I understand, why the CPC leans on it so much. Its a never ending well of support. All one needs to do is say “woke” and poof, people will send you money, blindly support anything you do (kidnapping, disobedience of legal doctrine), even ignore your federal crimes and the systematic fascistic destruction of your national economy in conjugation with the global order of peace.
What is wrong with everyone? I have never understood this insanity from the start. But to some this culture war is literally EVERYTHING. Some days I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
It’s the balkanization of political persuasion. By appealing more and more extremely to the folks who are already on your side, you are rewarded. They send you money and come to rallies. It’s an immediate positive feedback loop. When Poilevre trashes “Woke,” he is immediately praised and given support.
But this doesn’t make him much likelier to win the election, because he is being rewarded by people who were already going to vote for him. The roughly 1 in 12 Canadians who were going to vote CPC back in December but don’t want to now don’t respond to babbling about “woke” because they were centrists all along, and are, in this specific campaign, disproportionately ones who are overwhgelmingly concerned with Donald Trump and don’t give a shit about anything else.
At the end of this, when the Conservatives lose, many will immediately conclude the election was fixed, because they are exclusively surrounded by people who will agree with them. They no longer associate with people who think differently. “How did Nixon win? Nobody I know voted for him!”
Even assuming you are correct that “The Liberals” caused a housing shortage in Canada, it does not automatically follow that they “ain’t going to solve it.” Carney’s housing plan is here. You could evaluate those ideas on the merits…or not.
During the last federal election more than 17 million voters cast their ballots, representing a voter turnout of 62.6 per cent, said the independent agency.
So we’re already at about 40% of the total number of votes cast last time.
In the Politico article I quoted upthread, the pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Polls indicates why he thinks the Conservatives can’t pivot to attacking Trump; doing so would alienate a core of their own supporters:
But the second problem was that he was compromised, because within his core constituency, this 25 percent, they weren’t alarmed by these things. They liked Trump. They didn’t think it would be a bad idea if we were to become the 51st state. And so it became difficult for him to restyle himself as Captain Canada. I think it made it much more difficult for him to pivot.
What the hell are you on about? The conservatives haven’t been found guilty of federal crimes. The liberals have when they violated the trucker’s and supporters rights and all their other scandals. The only ones supporting these types of actions are the ones voting for the liberals.
Lot of Koolaid swallowed there.
You still beating that “Truckers rights” crap.
If people want the benefit of granted rights then the flip side is responsibility. Act irresponsibly such as closing a border or disrupting a capital city …expect those “rights” to evaporate.
What next?, refuse health directives aka mandatory quarantine?
A rambling meta-commentary about how outright scoundrels propagate anti-woke discourse for the purpose of inflaming the most gullible reactionary members of the public; goal being, to politically empower themselves while embarking on the worst type of reckless and spiteful destruction of social institutions, all of which, enhance the well-being of the populous in areas of education, health, economics, or public safety.
Sure, this is mostly about the US and Trump (the Republicans have destroyed so many public sectors of their country and their society suffers from horrible crippling social problems as a result of this). However Canadians are getting blasted with this demagogic dog-and-pony show too.
Why does the CPC hitch their brand so tightly to wanton anti-intellectualism? They attack research funding, higher education, Public broadcasting, census gathering. They haven’t (yet?) jumped on all the craziness that I see down south (every day is new INSANITY down there on increasingly higher and higher levels), but that is the next step once to have an uninformed and constantly scared populous. PP, himself, routinely embraces the worst type of these fringe nutters.
My only consolation is that he has embraced them so much, and for so long, that he threw away his only chance at governance because he fecklessly couldn’t deTrumpify enough for left-leaning Canadians, who moved to deny him PMship en masse.
That’s not being found guilty of a crime, it’s the courts striking down a government act. Which happens to EVERY government. Come on, you know the difference.
The Nanos rolling day numbers for today have deBumped the NDP back down. Most likely those numbers were due to a higher then normal NDP sample three days ago that got dropped for today.
Why are the Conservatives doing as well as they are? Are there a lot of people who want change, any change? Are there a lot of people who sincerely believe the Conservative propaganda (and believe that it is the rest of us who have fallen for propaganda)? Is it pure tribalism?
Some just really hate Trudeau, and want to punish him, even retroactively. Some just have a long-standing dislike of the Liberal Party in general.
Some have fallen for the “Woke virus” nonsense. I’ve heard guys at the pub complaining about “men playing girls’ sports” like that happens on any real scale. I’ve heard about the “kitty litter in schools” nonsense. You name it, someone out there believes it, and there’s enough of that going around that lots of people believe at least some of it, even if they don’t believe all of it. But “some of it” is enough to sway them.
A lot of them are just long standing supporters, who care about their taxes, and only their taxes. They’ll vote regardless of what else the Conservatives toss out there, because they figure none of it will hurt them, but they’ll get some tax cuts. Who do you think the “Old guys playing golf” ad was aimed at?
Its as simple as the Liberals have been in power for close to 10 years. That is a lot of time, well enough to enact their visions of the country. People voting for their first time now, ONLY know of life under the current ruling Liberal party. High time to allow the next party to enact their own policies. That’s just it.
However, this election is an anomaly as Trump has injected himself into almost all aspects of our political consciousness with his chaos, upheaval, and his direct economical and political threats. Left-leaning Canadians look at PP and recognize enough of Trump that they have consolidated under the Liberals to deny PP Prime Ministership.
This Trump-effect is also happening to Australia (who undergoing an election themselves right now).
It is a big stretch to claim that the Liberals “committed crimes” when they tried to bring peace to Ottawa following tow truck refusals, police ambivalence, severe damage to businesses and a great deal of economic obstruction. Most Canadians supported these Liberal efforts, recognizing truckers had a right to limited protest - but not to obstruct others nor block bridges nor impede businesses nor remain indefinitely. What was found was that arguably there were other laws that could have been used, though whether they recognized the third rule of bureaucracy: “Where there’s a will, there’s a won’t”.
As for other scandals, proroguing parliament to avoid giving documents to the police as was legally required is concerning and there is likely some reason why.
