Danielle Smith has long claimed to be a friend of the LGBTQ community. Her government's raft of new policies on trans issues suggest otherwise and raise an important question: Who wouldn't she betray to stay on Take Back Alberta's good side?
What will be interesting to see is how Gen Z/young Millenial voters respond to a federal Con government that targets 2SLGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, and starts rolling back social programmes, and looks at how to privatize more healthcare.
I have a suspicion that new block of Con voters, who’ve only ever really had the Federal Liberals in power, will understand why Canadians vote Liberal two times for every one time they vote Conservative.
Hard to say how younger generations, especially men being influenced by the Jordan Petersons and Andew Tates, will react to Conservative governance. Unfortunately, with how gender-based polling is showing they might be perfectly happy with it.
Even accounting for the (bizarre, and embarrassing) shift of Gen Z men towards the Cons, they are still more into the NDP than any generation above them. In fact in a lot of young Gen Z (male) voters, while the Cons are first, the NDP are second, and it’s ~5% between them. (Sorry I don’t have the stats on me, but it was posted here on Lemmy not too long ago)
My kids are Gen Z, and (very anecdotally here, I admit) they have said everyone their age they know who would vote Con (and there are a few) are pausing on it, and are extremely concerned about the amount of Identity Politics (their words) the Cons are using. They are not ok with anti-SOGI, anti-Trans, anti-2SLGBTQ+, or anti-abortion laws/actions.
Even more interestingly, to me, of six of their friends who have said they would vote Con, 2 have already left - but not to the Liberals, to the NDP. I think a LOT of the Gen Z male Con voters just don’t like the status quo, and don’t understand that the Cons will not only keep said status quo, but make it worse. Once a Con government starts making all the mistakes they usually do, plus new ones straight out of MAGA USA, I think they’ll split quickly. I honestly would be shocked to see a two-term Con government when they refused to even admit climate change exists.That is a TOUGH sell to Gen Z.
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What will be interesting to see is how Gen Z/young Millenial voters respond to a federal Con government that targets 2SLGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, and starts rolling back social programmes, and looks at how to privatize more healthcare.
I have a suspicion that new block of Con voters, who’ve only ever really had the Federal Liberals in power, will understand why Canadians vote Liberal two times for every one time they vote Conservative.
Hard to say how younger generations, especially men being influenced by the Jordan Petersons and Andew Tates, will react to Conservative governance. Unfortunately, with how gender-based polling is showing they might be perfectly happy with it.
Even accounting for the (bizarre, and embarrassing) shift of Gen Z men towards the Cons, they are still more into the NDP than any generation above them. In fact in a lot of young Gen Z (male) voters, while the Cons are first, the NDP are second, and it’s ~5% between them. (Sorry I don’t have the stats on me, but it was posted here on Lemmy not too long ago)
My kids are Gen Z, and (very anecdotally here, I admit) they have said everyone their age they know who would vote Con (and there are a few) are pausing on it, and are extremely concerned about the amount of Identity Politics (their words) the Cons are using. They are not ok with anti-SOGI, anti-Trans, anti-2SLGBTQ+, or anti-abortion laws/actions.
Even more interestingly, to me, of six of their friends who have said they would vote Con, 2 have already left - but not to the Liberals, to the NDP. I think a LOT of the Gen Z male Con voters just don’t like the status quo, and don’t understand that the Cons will not only keep said status quo, but make it worse. Once a Con government starts making all the mistakes they usually do, plus new ones straight out of MAGA USA, I think they’ll split quickly. I honestly would be shocked to see a two-term Con government when they refused to even admit climate change exists.That is a TOUGH sell to Gen Z.