• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    That Carney was a new face isn’t why the Liberals bounced back.

    1. Trump’s threats and the traditionally entirely too close relationship the Reform party has had with the GOP pushed people away from Milhouse and their party.
    2. Carney being new and a scholar isn’t the reason, they tried that with Michael Ignatieff 20ish years ago.
    3. The “popular support” for the Reform party is people voting against Trudeau, not support for Milhouse our any of their policies.
    4. A massive part of the Carney Liberal win is that the NDP base held their noses and voted strategically against the evil they knew(Milhouse and the Reform party). Helped by Jagmeet Singh being a completely useless silver spoon trust fund brat who has run the party into the ground by consistently backing Trudeau plans instead of leading his own party.

    Whether the Liberals can keep their lead once the NDP leadership race finishes will be something to watch. The NDP base isn’t happy that they voted for an analog to Mulroney, and he is proving to be overly reliant on business to fix what the public sector can do far better.

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      8 days ago

      Yea so like I was saying, I can’t address everything and remain concise. Especially when I’m discussing American politics.

      I don’t disagree with what you’re saying but it’s factually incorrect to deny that Trudeau’s unpopularity was integral to Carney flipping the polls on it’s head.

      And the fact that a bigger context exists, doesn’t detract from my main point being that we need to turn politicians over regularly to maintain a healthy democracy.

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        8 days ago

        Trudeau’s unpopularity was integral to Carney flipping the polls on it’s head.

        All he had to do was kill the Caron levy, for the people of the land, clay of the earth in the new West, you know, morons.

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          8 days ago

          Trudeau built them a pipeline and they still put AK47 Fuck Trudea stickers on all their shit box trucks.

          And quite frankly as an NDP voter who voted defensively, I would have very likely voted NDP had Trudeau stayed on as leader. The only time he ever got my vote it was becaue he lied about electoral reform.