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.
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
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.
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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.
Canada’s healthcare system has always been largely privatized (not entirely). That’s not what anyone is really going after. What would change, if certain people had their way, would be an elimination of the single-payer system.
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.
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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
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.
The provincial Conservative parties are completely separate from the federal one, just like the Liberals
Technically correct, but fundamentally, at the riding level, the same people are involved and support both.
@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.
Canada’s healthcare system has always been largely privatized (not entirely). That’s not what anyone is really going after. What would change, if certain people had their way, would be an elimination of the single-payer system.
sounds like abortion in the US. Watch your judicial appointments.
Doug Ford has entered the chat…
I think they don’t believe it, they just don’t dare attack it yet.
I clearly saw them holding signs saying “no medical procedures on children”.
They want them to die from appendicitis.
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.
At the provincial level they don’t, they just don’t have the numbers at the Federal level to get rid of it yet