01-12-2025, 03:34 PM
It could be that people just aren't as neoliberal as they were/are, considering there's waves of rising conservative and populist politics. The knee jerk reaction may be to say it's not the people but rather people in power pushing that, but for that to be valid you have to assume democracy isn't actually working. I'd like to think the country has enough sovereignty that populist politicians in Italy or Hungary aren't influencing us. I find it silly our media is giving so much attention to Trump saying he wants to force us to become a state. He's just a really funny guy that trolls people. He's not really pulling the strings of Canadian politicians.
The reality is that people are losing faith in neoliberal politics because they have obviously not been working sufficiently in people's favour, thus they are fed up with a multitude of issues plaguing societies all around the world.
Are conservative leaning parties the answer right now? Who really knows. Fiscal conservative policies may indeed help in some ways, considering how bad people are struggling financially (not just people, but governments). Will they hail the end of the free world and bring about extreme socially conservative values, or fascism-lite as some clowns like to imply? Absolutely not, especially in Canada. Our Conservative party is basically left leaning when you analyze them at their base philosophy. Will they screw some things up? Of course, but all parties do. It would be great if other parties were able to represent us better but sadly it never works that way here. Perhaps the NDP will work some magic and get voted in, but it's fairly clear we'll have a conservative government come next election. We'll just have to see how they do and, maybe for once, not be apathetic and actually hold them accountable for any failures. We gave the Liberals many years and they failed so bad our Prime Minister resigned in shame.
The reality is that people are losing faith in neoliberal politics because they have obviously not been working sufficiently in people's favour, thus they are fed up with a multitude of issues plaguing societies all around the world.
Are conservative leaning parties the answer right now? Who really knows. Fiscal conservative policies may indeed help in some ways, considering how bad people are struggling financially (not just people, but governments). Will they hail the end of the free world and bring about extreme socially conservative values, or fascism-lite as some clowns like to imply? Absolutely not, especially in Canada. Our Conservative party is basically left leaning when you analyze them at their base philosophy. Will they screw some things up? Of course, but all parties do. It would be great if other parties were able to represent us better but sadly it never works that way here. Perhaps the NDP will work some magic and get voted in, but it's fairly clear we'll have a conservative government come next election. We'll just have to see how they do and, maybe for once, not be apathetic and actually hold them accountable for any failures. We gave the Liberals many years and they failed so bad our Prime Minister resigned in shame.