‘They didn’t stand up to Trump’: how the Republican party descended into disarray
www.theguardian.com
The GOP was once feared for its ability to unite and win – but Kevin McCarthy’s demise shows a party deeply divided

An interesting article about the extreme right in the US and how they are not interested in governing or working for the people but are focused instead on tearing apart the US government, taking away rights and freedoms, and turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship with oligarchs in charge.

When we look at the now extreme Canadian right, with soaring food prices and housing prices and a failing healthcare system and faltering public education that is now focused on pronouns and hurting the most vulnerable Canadian children we cannot help but draw parallels. They don’t have a platform other than TrUdEaU bAd, pronouns, drag queens, and we’re going to fix everything, no we don’t have a plan, no we can’t tell you how, just trust us.

These people are focused on tearing apart the polices and services that make Canada among the best countries in the world to live in. Their base seethes with resentment about being made to feel ignorant, racist, and intolerance and that seething resentment is manipulated into fear, anger, and hatred toward those who make them feel bad about themselves.

We need to wake up and vote down this nonsense.

  • rbesfe
    625·
    1 year ago

    The Conservative party up here still believes in government funded healthcare. If you set aside the culture war they’re basically democrats. Until we neglect our education system as badly and for as long as the US has, I don’t think we’re in any danger of a fascist takeover

    • GreyEyedGhost
      28·
      1 year ago

      Take a look at the trends in Manitoba. Underfunded and mismanage, next step is saying private surely can’t be worse, final step is privatize. They did it with MTS, they were on step 2 with healthcare, they were on step 1 with education, they were on step 2 with Hydro.

      • rbesfe
        34·
        1 year ago

        The provincial Conservative parties are completely separate from the federal one, just like the Liberals

        • Grimpen
          11·
          1 year ago

          Technically correct, but fundamentally, at the riding level, the same people are involved and support both.

    • Lynda@c.im
      202·
      1 year ago

      @rbesfe @MapleEngineer
      Not convinced you are right about the con’s supporting gov’t funded health care. When they are in power, they inch toward privatization. The only thing stopping them is the belief that they would never get in power if they made major disruptions to,the health care system. ALWAYS pushing for lower taxes (and they always do) is a major indication of where they stand on any social democratic issue.

    • sndmn
      133·
      1 year ago

      I clearly saw them holding signs saying “no medical procedures on children”.

      They want them to die from appendicitis.

    • Victor Villas
      91·
      1 year ago

      I think they don’t believe it, they just don’t dare attack it yet.

    • ILikeBoobies
      5·
      1 year ago

      At the provincial level they don’t, they just don’t have the numbers at the Federal level to get rid of it yet

    • blindsight@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      I don’t read it that way. The social wedge issues are what are causing the splintering of the Republican Party, and will (hopefully) have similar outcomes in Canada.