07-11-2021, 06:19 PM
(07-11-2021, 05:32 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Up here, we certainly do not have issues to the same scale as the US, but our Conservative (big c) party is starting to head in that direction. I find that very dangerous as well.
Thing is, this won't get them anywhere in this country. Hell, the old Liberal government from 1993-2001 or whatever was more conservative.
If they want to govern ever again, they need to push out most of the hardline right. But that isn't a issue in the USA. Trump hit a nerve with so many people (good or bad), that his brand is going to live for a long time and a huge chunk of the US population loves the guy -- and even with that country so divided, you still don't have a huge turnout (though it was pretty big this year). I think part of the issue is that the left is going to far to the left as well, and centre type politics is dead.