The Marie Aintonettes are often TruAnons that give themselves away when they try to argue that things got cheaper under Trudeau, or try to claim things got better for the working class.
The most common one I've seen is "inflation
actually went down this year, by 30%", to which its like "Yeah, when it increased by 200% over the previous 2 years, and also what metric are you looking at because my grocery bill has not dropped, etc".
You then find out its some skewed research study about groceries in a Ottawa Valley town that has fuckall to do with a suburb of Toronto or Hongcouver.
Because people come to conclusions first, and do their research second.
They were unaffected by lockdowns, while many working class people had their livelihoods ruined by them.
This was one of the final straws for me. The paradigm used to be, you work hard, you invest, you build your own business, and one day you are your own boss- but they literally let businesses die for
nothing. Biggest single grab of market share by the oligarchs happened a few years ago, and if you had the entrapaneuership to try and create your own business before that, when covid hit- you got fucked.
I knew people who had struggled for the past decade, with rising real estate prices, competition with amazon, etc- but who were still making it, still trying to build something of their own, and somehow dealing with upturns in the market and consumer trends.
Covid policies killed that all. They left them out to dry. Now my old city is full of yuppie shops and chic sushi bars. Gentrification I guess.
The idea that the average working class person has beliefs a lot closer to early 20th century Bolsheviks and 18th century working class Frenchmen
Ironically, most do have the same views we had 100 years ago. Dunno about bolshivism, but economically left wing, socially conservative, used to be the average person's view. We're ironically probably going back to that in some sense.
The economic left we are talking about isn't 'redistribute wealth'/green socialism though, but more akin to dockworkers getting very, very pissed off when people try to employ scabs and coolies to undermine their wages and take their jobs.