genocide is only one issue, she willingly shifted all her policies "to the right" trying to lure republicans, meaning she was not about policies, she was about winning. If you have moral principles you stand by them, Bernie and AOC doing fine having the spine, DNC is hard at work supporting spineless candidates. Joe was OK-ish on many issues but he did walk away from student loan forgiveness and other things he promised. Kamala is a definite step down from Joe. US needs AOC ('cause Bernie is spent)
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she has shown that she is not progressive and more of a "status quo" politician. She'll get support from DNC and none from voters. Get ready for orange 2028
change tack to what? Antagonizing and pissing off "the other"? Mobilizing progressives, helping them gaining ground - for sure. Name calling and trolling is not going to help.
Now think about this fact: last election conservatives knew they were threatened by NDP, so you'd expect all the UCP loyalists to show up, but in fact turn-out is lower and results are way worse than prior election. In other words if we assume that those 70% contain more UCP supporters (or secession folk) I can't find plausible evidence to support that. So that's their entire electorate give or take a few thousands. The rest wants nothing to do with them. If it wasn't for FPP, AB governance would look very different. But like I said earlier - none of the parties (NDP included) is willing to change that.
look at the math: 60% turn-out, of which 52% voted UCP... that makes it ~31% at best. Which is my point. With FPP whoever is not willing to vote for any of the "major contestants" doesn't feel like their vote matters. So you've got 70% who did not vote for UCP for one or other reason
that tone is rather inflammatory. See my other post for more details but bottom line is that governing party was elected by about 30%-ish of population and they (UCP) intentionally promote more, shall we say, extreme (or, "uneducated" as you say) portion of the electorate. So painting entire AB with one brush is the same form of uneducated rant you've accused Albertans of. They are (like the rest of the country) trapped in FPP resulting in.... this. And every party that grabs the power immediately abandons idea of changing to proportional representation because they know they are not majority despite the appearances.
fun fact: Conservatives use preferential elections internally 🤔
UCP has majority only thanks to FPP. There's plenty Albertans who'd vote different but feel trapped between two parties (Liberals are a non-existent entity there). I can guarantee you that anecdotally and from pure math majority government of AB represents views of 30% of it's population, meaning 70% did not vote for tham. And of those 30% representation only a very vocal minority is driving separatist talk... We can all thank FPP for that.
sorry, what?
Carney didn't deal with unions, Liberals did. I don't think there's a single instance on memory where they did not man-handle unions.
Carney did claim recently $28B cuts will be comming. Liberal heavy handed behaviour towards unions smells of authoritarianism... so yeah freedom curbing is coming, we're just not sure on packaging and potency
that tactic is called "racheting" and was polished south of the border. By using racheting right keeps racheting things up while left usually falters and finds itself pulled stronger towards the right. In other words Carney's capitulation today may sound like conciliatory compromise but watch Conservatives soon upping the ante and demanding more aggressive measures from their playbook. So both parties will keep on drifting to the right and now we have nobody to pull thingz to the left. NDP is no more, BQ won't act on behalf of the rest of Canada... without being part of US, US-style political system is here today, with two parties that barely differ from each other and throw a show every election to make populous think they actually elect someone and they do participate in governance.