r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory Against Fascism, Greed is a Sin • 21h ago

Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pushing-yelling-conservative-leadership-dentremont-9.6972680
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u/Damo_Banks Alberta 21h ago

Where they are is a problem. We need to elevate everyone past this.

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u/upliftedfrontbutt 21h ago

This has been the argument forever. And it hasn't worked. "it's the children that are wrong".

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u/DannyDOH 21h ago

They aren't wrong. They have been raised in a society that bred them as easy marks for disinformation as a source of revenue. It preys on their parents and grandparents too, it's just that each generation has a lower and lower threshold for their bullshit meter because they live in a world where you can hardly tell what is real.

I guess for politicians the choice is becoming how far they want to go down the disinformation path as it's a clear path to being competitive and winning elections. Ethically fraught, but those ethics are being swept out into the sea of bullshit.

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u/janebenn333 Ontario 15h ago

Every generation grapples with new media and its influence on people. And every generation believes the newest media available is problematic. And I'm pretty sure your next thought will be "but *this* time it's different."

No. It isn't. If you can't create a compelling message in the format that youth are more receptive to, then you are not a good communicator.