DiscoRodeo
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As was said basically, people are shadowboxing the same cultural landscape as 20 or 30 years ago.Progressives and liberals always end up being the victim of their own policies, because theyre statistically less likely to stand up for themselves or posess any sort of survival skills.
A gay activist DJ in Washington DC just got beat into a coma by a gang of Dindu Nuffins and is now a vegetable.
Being a gay man in DC, we all know who he voted for.
And now he can only eat food as mushy as his brain.
Gen Xers never grew up and still think they need to 'rebel' against neo-cons and cultural conservatives, even though they havnt been a relevant thing for 30 years.
Even the Christlarpers that you see now are not in power and are pretty much just a liberal zoomer echo that I doubt would ever do anything.
If you want the actual problem, people vote based on emotion rather than logic. Women in the US have decided to make the US election a single issue, over abortion. When you bring up that the democrats are just using them, that they had four years to enshrine abortion rights (more than that, of course) and never did, that their excuse was that they dont control congress, they forget this. When you bring up that the landscape will be the same as it was in 2016, and they still wont control congress, they forget this.
When you bring up that "hay, I get it, but Kamala and Biden literally opened the border for millions of brown people to rape you, take your jobs, and theyre neoliberal shitlords"
They forget this.
Its like peoples brains turn off when theres a single issue and theyll vote for the dumbest parties with the worst political positions possible.
People both seem to think we're living in the same landscape as 20-30 years ago, or are so isolated in luxury beliefs, they refuse to realize their policies are hurting anyone below them because they literally ignore cries for help, until and only when it directly affects them. You add that 'emotional' layer to voting as well. "Omg, the conservative said something I dont like, or they dont want to legalize crystal meth, or in the US decided abortion should be a state issue", and theyll literally ignore all other politics and vote leopards in to eat their face.
Its dumb shit you see constantly.
Mark my words, Canada will probably have some similar things, like some conservative minister not being gung ho' on the 'Residential school denialism' thing or some other absurd nonsense, and they will suddenly forget all other issues and vote left wing again.
Single issue voters, unless its the single issue I support, are the dumbest people out there, but welcome to democracy I guess. On the flip side, it does seem like Canada is reaching critical mass on the single issue of immigration, so who knows. Said single issue is a structural one in which so many other issues stem from, so solving that, at the least, would be something which will have both direct economic and social effects on the country.