With a provincial election that left the BC NDP in government by a small margin, there’s no doubt that 2024 signalled a clear shift to the far-right with the expressed support of extreme candidates with extreme positions.
Media makes a mess too. A friend immigrated here, got citizenship, now votes for candidates tough on immigration… “Because immigrants are the problem.” Per media/YouTube algorithms.
Everything: consistently shifts to the right since the 60-70’s.
Everything: gets worse every time it’s shifted right since the 60’s-70’s.
Everyone in the western world in the mid 2000’s: WE NEED TO SHIFT RIGHT EVEN HARDER
Is everyone just a fucking moron or what the fuck is going on?!
Far too many people who would rather not think too deeply of politics are also far too deeply invested in identity politics and following those parties that make them feel better.
Vanishingly few conservative voters below the Parasite Class actually understand how badly conservative policies are there just to fuck over the working class that they’re a part of.
It’s also why so much of conservative propaganda makes use of thought-terminating clichés.
Yeah, I have seen that exact same thing happen over in Europe “the conservative party fucked us over for xx years. Time to vote for the even harder right-wing populist.” It makes me wonder what folks are thinking? Is this a “the only way out is through” mentality or am I missing something?
It’s also like 5 generations of capitalist propaganda.
It’s disheartening to see these folks with extremist views and conspiratorial beliefs make it into government. I can understand some people being frustrated with the NDP government, but to vote this extremist seems like a knee-jerk overreaction. Honestly, we need proportional representation to avoid this kind of polarization before it results in even more extremist folks making it into office.
It isn’t a hard shift to the right - those voters were just effectively disenfranchised by Christie Clark pushing BC Cons out of the realm of possibility by being so far right. They’re the absolutely brain dead idiots that refused to vote for Clark because “She’s uh libruhl” while she ran an extremely right wing political agenda.
The actual incomprehensible event was that she was ever able to capture that position in the first place. It was before my time but I’m amazed she ever managed to capture BC Liberal voters with her far right platform in the first place.
BTW, when I say BC Cons voters are absolutely brain dead I mean it. The huge number of voters that suddenly appeared are super low information party loyal folks.
