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    Funny how many Conservatives seem happy enough to go the party that is supposedly full of “woke leftists”. Almost as if the Liberals are actually conservatives, have been for a while, and too many of us are too stupid to have seen it.

    Glad we nuked the NDP again for this!

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      The Liberals aren’t woke leftists. Nor are they MAGA conservatives. They’re just sorta center, increasingly conservative but not particularly extreme. Not my ideal party but compared to what other countries have been electing I’d say it’s kind of a relief.

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        Ya’ll need to pay attention, then. They’re stripping back environmental protections “for the economy” and selling our shit to private companies, laying people off in a time when it’s already incredibly difficult to get jobs, and tried to help Air Canada by butting into the flight attendant strike to make it illegal and we’re all lucky that it didn’t work. “Elbows up” lost steam immediately and then we just fell in with China instead. So much of the good they did the last time was the NDP making them do it while Canadians bitched about the NDP “not doing anything”. They’re not “increasingly conservative” they are just conservatives and they are less and less afraid of showing it each cycle.

        I’m so beyond over lazy, relativistic politics. Who the hell cares if they’re better than worst from other countries when we literally have a better party right here?

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          The NDP have a good platform, ticks my boxes, but they seem kinda incompetent to me.

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            Why? Was it all the stuff they got done when the only power they had was a coalition government? What was it? And Carney getting stuff done is better even though the stuff being done is bad? What about the Liberals and their constant lying, scheming, and persistent disdain for the working class make them a better choice?

            Are for real? You cannot honestly be that stupid, can you?

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      I’m glad we nuked the NDP. Not for this but for a leftist renewal that was impossible under Jagmeet.

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      That area of Edmonton has never voted in a Liberal, and now they are Liberals. I’m sure his constituency loves it.

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        Conservatives are dumb as hell, they probably don’t even realize that they’re getting the same ideology they used to vote for just under a different name.

        If I could magic one seemingly small thing into the world it would be to make everyone think just a tiny bit more about what they were doing. It would be to make them vote honestly and in alignment with their ideology and not based on their past choices or party branding.