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Mark Carney’s Trickle-Down Nation-Building (jacobin.com)
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (10 children)

The other option was to elect a the republican party's vestigial Prime Minister.. (Or the NDP who would be a dog that finally caught it's tail and has no idea what to do with it).

The liberals were the lesser of the 2.5 evils we have to choose from.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    The majority also didn't need to panic vote and oust NDP strongholds thereby giving a neo-lib banker the super majority he enjoys today. Not to mention the crappy and nepo MPs that got voted in because of the panic vote.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Voters gave him a minority, for the record. Several former Conservative and one former NDP MPs gave him the Parliamentary majority.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Would he have been as close to it without so many NDP seats flipping because of the panic vote?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes, or otherwise without the panic vote, back in December 2024 PP was slated to sail to victory.

    The NDP wasn't really offering anything new at the time, they got hammered by their own policies being way too focus group workshopped (Something along the lines of: "we are gonna fight, fight fight for something, we worked together with the Liberals to get you healthcare but now they suck so we're not working with them anymore! But we still wanna finish the rollout!"). Simultaneously, the Conservative media propaganda machine was focusing on soiling Jagmeet Singh's name since Trudeau was already done for.

    Lewis' message is refreshingly bold yet down-to-earth, and I have hope for the future of the NDP now, considering the Liberals are leaving that space wide open atm.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I agree with you, I don't even think the federal NDP even had much of a message. I still voted for my local NDP because their message was great, they just didn't win.

    I'm mostly talking about the lost strongholds like on Vancouver island that were historically always NDP by a high margin with liberals barely on the map. But the panic vote swung the liberals to winning quite a few seats. Though to be fair, I think NDP would've still lost party status - it just hurt a bit more than needed

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry. One of those votes was me. First time I did not vote NDP in my 45+ years of voting. My local NDP rep won their riding though, so I feel a bit better about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Hey, I get it! Our options (or what they seemed at the time) was vote Carney or vote for our wanna-be Donald, and we had already seen what a few months of Donald could do when it was our turn to vote.

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