Center right at best, the top Dems in the party are more like Dinos. Republicans have been fearmongered for decades that the “left” is closer to communism but don’ realize that the dnc had to move right wing to even stand a chance against Republicans elections. Dnc have always been right wing, they just hide in a veneer of “progressiveness”. I knew some Asian YouTubers that did the same thing, merely hid behind the shield of progressives, while ranting about right wing tropes
Yes and no. It would be better to say that about half of our Conservatives sit slightly to the right of the Dems. The other half - the former Reform party of which Pollievre is one - are an actively regressive, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic party who want to destroy abortion access, collapse our education system and sell off our healthcare, and would get along very well with the GOP (hence why Trump spoke so favourably of Pollievre and why Pollievre refuses to ever say anything bad about Trump).
And here’s the thing; the half of our Conservatives who aren’t openly fascist have no problem allying with the half who are. Which just makes them fascists too. We shouldn’t kid ourselves about this. Canadian Conservatives want to do everything the GOP is doing, they’re just not there yet.
The big difference between Canada and the US, isn’t in the quality of our Conservatives, its in the fact that our Conservatives have to mask their more horrific tendencies to get the average person to vote for them.
Seriously Bernie Sanders could sit down and have positive dialogue with our conservatives. Americans have no idea how much the Overton Window has been at work there.
To be fair, that’s because the US Democrats would be right wing nearly everywhere else on the world. There has been a shit ton of propaganda infrastructure built over the last 60+ years to shift the US spectrum so dramatically to the point a third of the country supports overt fascism while claiming it’s the opposite.
I don’t think PP is very moderate. But who knows. All he does is pal around with fascist lowlifes, make lame attack ads and parrot MAGA bigotry. He doesn’t actually propose anything positive.
Only the progressives are socially left, every other dem politicians are to the right. Even in the west, people have expressed their conservative views while still voting Dem. The people that move to the West Coast, transplants often are more conservative than the people that grew up here. That’s what I noticed
Our Conservatives make the democrats in the US look right wing.
Dumb shit can’t understand that sharing a name doesn’t make them the same.
Center right at best, the top Dems in the party are more like Dinos. Republicans have been fearmongered for decades that the “left” is closer to communism but don’ realize that the dnc had to move right wing to even stand a chance against Republicans elections. Dnc have always been right wing, they just hide in a veneer of “progressiveness”. I knew some Asian YouTubers that did the same thing, merely hid behind the shield of progressives, while ranting about right wing tropes
Yes and no. It would be better to say that about half of our Conservatives sit slightly to the right of the Dems. The other half - the former Reform party of which Pollievre is one - are an actively regressive, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic party who want to destroy abortion access, collapse our education system and sell off our healthcare, and would get along very well with the GOP (hence why Trump spoke so favourably of Pollievre and why Pollievre refuses to ever say anything bad about Trump).
And here’s the thing; the half of our Conservatives who aren’t openly fascist have no problem allying with the half who are. Which just makes them fascists too. We shouldn’t kid ourselves about this. Canadian Conservatives want to do everything the GOP is doing, they’re just not there yet.
The big difference between Canada and the US, isn’t in the quality of our Conservatives, its in the fact that our Conservatives have to mask their more horrific tendencies to get the average person to vote for them.
Seriously Bernie Sanders could sit down and have positive dialogue with our conservatives. Americans have no idea how much the Overton Window has been at work there.
And also the large reason the Cons were polling so far in the lead is because of Trudeau fatigue.
Now that he’s gone things have balanced out again.
I also think looking over your border at our Trump shit show has to have made some Conservative Canadians rethink their position.
To be fair, that’s because the US Democrats would be right wing nearly everywhere else on the world. There has been a shit ton of propaganda infrastructure built over the last 60+ years to shift the US spectrum so dramatically to the point a third of the country supports overt fascism while claiming it’s the opposite.
I don’t think PP is very moderate. But who knows. All he does is pal around with fascist lowlifes, make lame attack ads and parrot MAGA bigotry. He doesn’t actually propose anything positive.
No, they do that all by themselves.
I’d say the democrats are socially left economically right
Only the progressives are socially left, every other dem politicians are to the right. Even in the west, people have expressed their conservative views while still voting Dem. The people that move to the West Coast, transplants often are more conservative than the people that grew up here. That’s what I noticed