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PP knows their base is made up of a not so insignificant # of trump supporters. he is trying to navigate how to be pro canada and not anti trump at the same time.. quite hilarious. all he can really do is watch his comfortable lead erode as the liberals are trying and not doing such a terrible job at defending canadian interests. the blame game continues for PP tho, it's what he's does best... its actually all he does and now he's taking aim at mark carney. |
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Danielle Smith (and Doug Ford) are making it clear which team they are on with how they've bought into the false narrative that the trade war is about border security: |
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The problem is -- if the Cons doesn't get a win right now, PeePee is still going to stick around as the Cons leader for at least the next round of election, if not longer. With Trump as POTUS in the next 4 years, the times are going to be difficult not matter who becomes our PM, and Canadian voters will very likely put at least some of that blame towards the next PM, regardless of whether it is justified or not. If PeePee loses the next next election, then there is a pretty good chance he would have to resign as the party leader. If the Libs can somehow manage to form a minority gov, PeePee is just gonna stick around and become even more emboldened to make another run for the Prime Ministership. FailFish |
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1. Lib Majority 2. Cons Majority 3. Lib Minority I don't include a Cons minority as I don't think they'd be able to form a gov't - their policies are so far away from the Libs or Bloc that I'd expect the gov't to fall quickly. I think the Liberals are a mess with a lot of debris that accumulates when parties are in power for a long time - Carney's going to have a big job finding capable new MPs and advisors but he should have a lot of pull to do that but it will take time. A minority gov't compromises him too much. The Cons are just not a credible party - too much of their base are Trump supporters and they will not be able to defend us from Trump's attack. We're seeing that already - PP doesn't know what to say or do because he's trying to stay onboard with the Trump train but can't also defend Canada. |
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But I think (not what I want) will be a Cons minority. I want a Libs minority if Carney wins leadership (which it appears that way). I want the Libs to be held in check. If for any reason Freeland wins the Liberal party race, I want a UK passport cuz between Freeland and PP :rukidding: ... or Trinidad for 4 yrs? |
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338 right now says the Cons win a majority and usually if you can get 40% support you can get it and they're showing up around 42% at the moment. I imagine a focused attack on them around how they're tied up with Trump and MAGA will knock a bunch of points off them and could bring them into minority territory. If that happens I don't see how the Cons can form government as no one will support them. They have to win a majority while the Liberals can form a minority govt with NDP support (I don't know where the Bloc will sit on things). We could actually see a situation where the Cons have the most seats but it's the Liberals who form gov't. |
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Smith is in a lot of hot water right now for taking bribes for goverment health contracts. |
Too early to take any polls serious because we already know the Liberals and NDP will flood the zone with ads showing PP’s admiration for Trump and his various appearances with far-right media personalities. How much this will move the needle remains to be seen, but if Trump wanted to install a Conservative government in Canada, his tactics are having the opposite effect. |
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BQ has been doing this for 30+ years, so they know how the game is played. They know they need Alberta's money to keep leur belle province afloat, so they will only go far enough to upset some Canadians with respect to the disproportionate amount of federal perks they receive, but they won't actually get too greedy to completely piss off the rest of the country. And when the times call for it -- such as now when Trump is bullying us -- they will proudly identify as Canadiens aussi (unlike some of our next door redneck neighbours). |
To my memory, federally, the party with the 2nd most seats won in an election has never formed government with an Alliance. The party with the most elected seats gets 1st chance at it, they can try to work with BQ (which I believe has happened in the past). Even if they fail, they usually go to the polls and not try for some sort of Alliance. |
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Curious as to understand how people on here define right wing ( right of center) vs far right. Someone mentioned far right media personalities..I’m assuming the usual cast of character between Peterson and Ben Shapriro would be considered by some here as far right? If so who do you consider moderate right I personally see a polarization on both sides ( mostly media driven) that try’s to paint the entire “side” as being far left/far right. Who would you guys consider reasonable on the other side of things relative to your own position? |
I should probably mention that I’ve voted left my entire voting life but was quite tempted last time to vote for O’toole as I saw him ( rightly or wrongly) trying to Drag the cons back to the middle a bit. And that if it didn’t work ( which it didn’t ) that we would see the cons pull further right. |
Doug ford, Ken sim? I mean I wouldn't even call PP far right, although he DID table a bill in 2007 to REVERSE MARRIAGE EQUALITY in case anyone forgot. That's pretty far, but I think conservative milhouse has calmed down a bit since then. Not that it matters because in 17 years of politics he's never successfully had a bill moved forward. |
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Maxime Bernier would be far right. John Rustad would be solidly right wing, with certain things showing far right tendencies -- climate change denialism, anti-vax conspiracies, etc. As another example, I'd label the BC NDP to be left of center, whereas I'd say Jagmeet Singh tries to make himself look left-leaning, more so than the BC NDP. Then again, I don't really know where Jagmeet stands, bcos I consistently find him too useless to present a consistent and coherent front on the left side of the political spectrum. |
American.. but I consider Jon Stewart to be left leaning centrist... he seems extremely reasonable on things and often call out Dems for stupid shit they do. |
That video of Jon Stewart making that republican senator eat shit about gun laws is an absolute masterpiece. |
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OTOH, the Far Right seeks a reversal of the changes that have happened - they want a return to the way things were before and to reclaim what once was regardless of what public sentiment and current morals/values say or what science or facts say. They will often reference how things used to be and how it was better then - it's coded language for white nationalism. They often want to reclaim power they've lost - thus you'll see an overtly "masculine" set of beliefs (like Andrew Tate) or overtly racist behaviour. The far right is commonly associated with fascism due to the desire for control/power. Liberals (small L) are the people of progress defined as more equality in all forms - more rights for everyone, more economic opportunity for everyone, etc. The more equality they advocate for the more left they are. Some think of far left being Communism which is different than Socialism - I think the latter is more accurate. Something that I'd consider a far left idea is universal basic income - it's a radical idea that would require dramatic change in society. Quote:
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I think of him as more left leaning than me and I think of myself of being right around the John Horgan NDP/Mark Carney Liberal of a voter. If I were to do a left to right spectrum of politicians it might look like: Jack Layton --> David Eby --> Horgan/Carney --> Trudeau/Chretien --> Freeland/Martin --> Mulroney --> O'Toole --> Harper/Christy ------> Ford/PP ---> Danielle Smith/Far Right |
PP may not be far right but he is to weak to control his party. harper use to crack the whip an they would all fall in line. pp can't do that. Multiple members of his party have also been seen wearing maga hats. https://i.ibb.co/b5mP88Fr/pptmp.jpg |
There’s a lot of comments on that Danielle Smith X link above from purported Albertans saying they’d be happy to annex from Canada and become the 51st state…. I’m surrounded by morons and Russian bots. |
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