Video shows Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accusing Justin Trudeau of 'imposing radical gender ideology' on children
2SLGBTQIA+ community leaders are denouncing the Conservative leader’s speech accusing Justin Trudeau of imposing “radical gender ideology” on children.
And they get away with it because again … the population falls into thirds
A third supports this stupidity, a third oppose this stupidity and a third are completely ignorant and don’t care who wins the argument.
Movements like this come out of small group of small minded people with a lot of funding and monetary support. They just don’t appear out of thin air. Their rhetoric grows because they are able to market it to many people in many places, often and effectively. It takes money to do that, not influence, not charisma, not luck … it’s just money.
The NDP has leagues of diehard supporters, but none of them ever get heard because they don’t have a marketing machine behind them. I know because I’m an NDP supporter.
The marketing is only half the problem … the other half is the ignorance of the masses. Conservatives know that they can sway a good percentage of the population … they also know that with careful marketing, they can sway those that sit on the fence or are just ignorant of everything. It’s all they need to nudge themselves into power.
Everyone needs to vote, everyone needs to make their voice heard … it’s the only way we can stem the tide of conservatism that is building.
The Conservatives are the only party whose political survival depends centrally on their ability to hoodwink the ignorant. Right wing politics always involves this trickery, because in reality it offers nothing to benefit most of the people who vote for it, and a lot to harm them.
But they keep wining and seem to be getting more popular around the world.
I think when times get hard people just say I want it to be like it used to be.
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And they get away with it because again … the population falls into thirds
A third supports this stupidity, a third oppose this stupidity and a third are completely ignorant and don’t care who wins the argument.
Movements like this come out of small group of small minded people with a lot of funding and monetary support. They just don’t appear out of thin air. Their rhetoric grows because they are able to market it to many people in many places, often and effectively. It takes money to do that, not influence, not charisma, not luck … it’s just money.
The NDP has leagues of diehard supporters, but none of them ever get heard because they don’t have a marketing machine behind them. I know because I’m an NDP supporter.
The marketing is only half the problem … the other half is the ignorance of the masses. Conservatives know that they can sway a good percentage of the population … they also know that with careful marketing, they can sway those that sit on the fence or are just ignorant of everything. It’s all they need to nudge themselves into power.
Everyone needs to vote, everyone needs to make their voice heard … it’s the only way we can stem the tide of conservatism that is building.
The Conservatives are the only party whose political survival depends centrally on their ability to hoodwink the ignorant. Right wing politics always involves this trickery, because in reality it offers nothing to benefit most of the people who vote for it, and a lot to harm them.
But they keep wining and seem to be getting more popular around the world. I think when times get hard people just say I want it to be like it used to be.