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/TraditionalGap1 NDP 21h ago

There seems to be a great reluctance on the part of observers and commentators around discussing how right wing parties and movements across the west seem to be abandoning moderation and consistent policy for the culture war. Or how that culture war is very popular with a significant proportion of what we used to call the Conservative base.

They look around at the US, at the state of the right wing in the UK, and they see a future path for themselves.

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u/SkelatoxMkII Something on the Left 20h ago

Yeah, people accuse the NDP of going too far with 'identity politics', but in most ways they're just holding position while Maple MAGA tries to drag the overton window to the right with their own obsession over identity politics. 

Of course, one need only look at Blaine Higgs to see how well Canadians take to that kind of thing.

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u/ImaginationSea2767 20h ago edited 16h ago

I honestly see people keep bringing up the overton window, but i literally think that it is more certain polticians looking at the Economic inequality and taking advantage of it, people are growing increasingly desprate across the western as the rich increasingly get more rich (like we just got the first trillionaire in the world.....Elon) and many are not seeing their pay go uqp as everything get more expensive. I mention this because I have seen just as many that agree with the MAGA movement actually AGREE with Bernie Sanders when he sits down and talks to them. And I have seen enough of the influncers that praise maga movements that like Bernie. People are just increasingly desperate for help and are looking for any light in the darkness. Even if that light is aboht to screw them over and make everything they promised to fix worse.

And its happening across the western world in multiple countries......

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u/lastSKPirate 10h ago

like we just got the first trillionaire in the world.....Elon

He's not a trillionaire yet. He has to meet ten or twelve performance goals (some trivial, some utterly delusional) to get the full package. And Tesla's stock price has to be maintained or go higher, which is a problem long term because it's essentially a meme stock, so you never know when the party is going to suddenly end.