Look, the only reason people start getting conservative, is when needs and wants start getting harder to acquire. Want to change that? then have affordable living make a come back. There’s a reason why a decade ago people were more liberal, because shit was more affordable.
I’ve lived in a small rural prairie riding all my life. It’s been not conservative one term in the last 40-50 years. The people who complain the most about Canada being broken are the ones who have owned their houses since the 90’s and worked the same jobs for pretty much as long and have the health care system all their long lives and starting to collect cpp even while continuing to work, as long as it doesn’t put them too much into the next tax bracket. They can’t really explain how Canada is broken for them, beyond talking points. They can’t really explain what they think Conservatives will do to fix the things they don’t really know are wrong. They just vote conservative because liberal bad. The fuck Carney signs came out the day after he was confirmed as Liberal party leader. There was no time to formulate a hate for him, it was immediately implemented mindlessly
This is correct, but I’d just like to add, it’s because conservatives always provide simple answers, to complex issues because they don’t actually care about fixing anything.
Housing too expensive? It’s the immigrants!
Food too expensive? It’s the liberal regulations!
Taxes too high? We’ll lower them!
Every issue, they provide a simple, yet absolute bullshit fix for, but it’s easy to understand and for a simple mind, simple solutions are the answer.
Liberals have failed to make progress on these issues because in part there’s corruption, ineptitude, but for the most part because the solutions required are complex and take a long time to fix. And no-one has the courage to say this shit is fucked and we need a fix that addresses all of the facets of the problem.
Look, the only reason people start getting conservative, is when needs and wants start getting harder to acquire. Want to change that? then have affordable living make a come back. There’s a reason why a decade ago people were more liberal, because shit was more affordable.
I’ve lived in a small rural prairie riding all my life. It’s been not conservative one term in the last 40-50 years. The people who complain the most about Canada being broken are the ones who have owned their houses since the 90’s and worked the same jobs for pretty much as long and have the health care system all their long lives and starting to collect cpp even while continuing to work, as long as it doesn’t put them too much into the next tax bracket. They can’t really explain how Canada is broken for them, beyond talking points. They can’t really explain what they think Conservatives will do to fix the things they don’t really know are wrong. They just vote conservative because liberal bad. The fuck Carney signs came out the day after he was confirmed as Liberal party leader. There was no time to formulate a hate for him, it was immediately implemented mindlessly
This is correct, but I’d just like to add, it’s because conservatives always provide simple answers, to complex issues because they don’t actually care about fixing anything.
Housing too expensive? It’s the immigrants!
Food too expensive? It’s the liberal regulations!
Taxes too high? We’ll lower them!
Every issue, they provide a simple, yet absolute bullshit fix for, but it’s easy to understand and for a simple mind, simple solutions are the answer.
Liberals have failed to make progress on these issues because in part there’s corruption, ineptitude, but for the most part because the solutions required are complex and take a long time to fix. And no-one has the courage to say this shit is fucked and we need a fix that addresses all of the facets of the problem.