Oh the creep to the right is certainly a problem, I don’t disagree. I personally have voted ndp in both federal and provincial elections except when clear abc strategic voting came into play. I’m just explaining why the liberals as the closest to centrists are the default and what most Canadians want. Especially as our neighbours to the south go crazy, people want as stable as possible. The ndp does have some potentially destabilizing ideas; I personally trust them just as I trusted the bob Rae Ontario ndp and when they got power they were very responsibly (which pissed off lot of radical lefties and made them hate him, so we bounced back to the right, sigh).
What I’m trying to say is that if you poll most Canadians they don’t want that shit. We have been told for so long that progressive ideas are only possible in dreamland and that things would be too expensive and then we just never question that. In reality, not investing in people and instead handing all our money to the ultra-rich just screws us over. There are people who would have said that Harper was too far right and yet will vote Liberal just because it’s in between two other parties(despite being barely left of the Conservatives).
The “destabilizing” also needs examples because a) yes, we are too deep into capitalism now so we have to make big moves and b) are they really, or are they just unfamiliar? And why are their moves “destabilizing” but Carney firing tens of thousands of people and continuing to drive us towards intense economic disaster just “normal”? We need to start thinking for ourselves or we are nothing.
Oh the creep to the right is certainly a problem, I don’t disagree. I personally have voted ndp in both federal and provincial elections except when clear abc strategic voting came into play. I’m just explaining why the liberals as the closest to centrists are the default and what most Canadians want. Especially as our neighbours to the south go crazy, people want as stable as possible. The ndp does have some potentially destabilizing ideas; I personally trust them just as I trusted the bob Rae Ontario ndp and when they got power they were very responsibly (which pissed off lot of radical lefties and made them hate him, so we bounced back to the right, sigh).
What I’m trying to say is that if you poll most Canadians they don’t want that shit. We have been told for so long that progressive ideas are only possible in dreamland and that things would be too expensive and then we just never question that. In reality, not investing in people and instead handing all our money to the ultra-rich just screws us over. There are people who would have said that Harper was too far right and yet will vote Liberal just because it’s in between two other parties(despite being barely left of the Conservatives).
The “destabilizing” also needs examples because a) yes, we are too deep into capitalism now so we have to make big moves and b) are they really, or are they just unfamiliar? And why are their moves “destabilizing” but Carney firing tens of thousands of people and continuing to drive us towards intense economic disaster just “normal”? We need to start thinking for ourselves or we are nothing.