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#notmypresident because it's #notmycountry
I wouldn't want him in charge of Canada but if Hillary was the other choice? Yes.
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Yeah, her nuclear holocaust would have paled in comparison to the one Trump is working on.
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The tone, the de-facto liberalism in this forum is a little startling.
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No it isn't. Look at the demographics. We're mostly city dwellers. A group that tends to skew left.
If you go to a forum about farms you'll find it skews right, because that's a different demographic.
I always find it absurd when people complain this forum is leftist. That's like going to CatFancy.com and complaining they spend too much time discussing cats.
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It's as if many here grew up being taught that conservatives were evil...
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We weren't "taught" this. We learned it through experience. We lived under them for the previous decade! I came of age under Martin's and Harper's governments and that heavily influenced my perception of Canada's federal government and political system.
I was also a kid during Mike Harris's reign over Ontario and recall the devastation to our economy that his Tea Party style politics combined with free trade policies did to us. His legacy
still hurts the perception of the PC Party of Ontario today, nearly 20 years later.
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it's a stark contrast to conversations had in person, where I seem to meet more conservatives than lefties.
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That depends on who you know. Most of
my in-person conversations are with leftists (but I live in a city where the PCs come in fourth in elections), the only Conservative supporters I ever meet are racist, ignorant old people who pepper their ideology with insults and demands for entitlements.
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The left has to learn their lesson from their capitulation in the US, and if they don't, conservative momentum gained in this last election will maintain or increase. People can say what they want about Trump, but judging by the left's public reaction, they've lost their wits and stand to lose the reasonable people from within their ranks. In response, the Republicans may happily soften a little and add some numbers.
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The Democrats lost because the establishment part of the Democratic Party is too drunk on corporate donations and is fighting as hard as they can to protect them. And they will continue losing if that doesn't change. There is a reason so many young people in the US are
independents.
And I wouldn't refer to being led by the least popular president in American history while constituents turn out en masse at town halls to cuss out their Republican representatives to be "conservative momentum". The only thing really protecting the Republicans is gerrymandering, and even that's being challenged as undemocratic now.