Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result - eviltoast
  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Strategically it doesn’t make sense. It’s better for him to run and lose intentionally, then step down after the loss.

    That allows the people to get their hate out, and resets the playing field for the next election cycle when people realize the Conservatives haven’t done shit all to make life more affordable.

    The core problems Trudeau is being blamed for aren’t really his fault. They’re global trends happening everywhere, including places with conservative governments.

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      5 months ago

      That allows the people to get their hate out, and resets the playing field for the next election cycle when people realize the Conservatives haven’t done shit all to make life more affordable.

      Traditionally this hasn’t been how Canadian politics has played out. We tend to have long running federal governments over single term governments except in cases of extremely disastrous political results (ie. forcing an early election by a vote of non-confidence, etc…)

      Canadian voters seem to be very very patient. It won’t matter how shitty PP and the Cons are as a government, voters will keep on electing them in for a decade or more before finally having enough. Same as we did with the Liberals, and same as we did with Harper before that.

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        I’m not sure that’s going to hold true with so many people being effectively inflated into poverty.

        It’s going to get worse, a lot worse.