That's the thing.
People talk about how in Canada we are now seeing political divisions akin to US politics like we've never seen before. And there is truth in that. But when you look at it, it starts with Justin Trudeau .
In all my life, which is slipping more and more into decrepitude with each passing week, I've never seen such a divisive Prime Minister. He constantly insults and belittles ordinary Canadians who simply don't agree with him. We constantly get referred to as "racists", "misogynists", "islamophobes", "cruel", "small minded", "hateful", "homophobes", you name it. And for some, he suspends their constitutional rights, freezes their bank accounts, threatens to use the government to take away their children and holds them without bail for months.
These aren't his political rivals, these are ordinary Canadians he is constantly labeling as such. Just look at the rhetoric he and Freeland were using in the run-up to the by-election.
I can not think of a previous Prime Minister who ever behaved in such a reprehensible way in the past. Seriously. I don't recall Chretien, or Mulroney or PET ever calling Canadian people racists or misogynists. 45 percent of the population never would have voted for the Liberals and to Justin that means they are all racists and misogynist and homophobic. It's sick.
He's just like Hilary Clinton who labeled half of Americans "deplorables". No Hilary, they are citizens of the United States and the fact that they were not going to vote for you doesn't make them a deplorable.
Same goes to Poilievre, don't ever make that mistake. Don't label citizens who choose not to vote for you as anything but people you simply have a political disagreement with. In closing, i recall the late great John McCain who actually came to the defense of Barack Obama during political rallies when things got carried away. Can't imagine Justin Trudeau ever being a gentleman like that. And for that he deserves to lose.
James, let's talk about what's REALLY happening.
The great - Russian-funded and China-supported - political revelation of the last 10 years is that there is a hardcore of less educated voters, often older and rural, who will hate-vote against any urban and progressive political platform. You just feed those voters slogans and buzzwords, point to a centrist political leader and rant about "the good old days" and let the dollars and votes roll in.
Steve Bannon worked this shtick out with Vlad Putin in the the early teens and voila Trump, Farage and now PeePee.
There's no content to this politics. It's just vague promises, hate and angry pseudo-nostalgia.
Biden's a smart enough guy and a good enough politician to (probably) deal with this. Trudeau is not and never has been. There is no good reason that Trudeau ever got to be PM. He's a drama teacher who looks good in a suit and smiles a lot. So while Biden can avoid obvious own goals in his quotes and speeches, Trudeau cannot.
What do you think PeePee is actually going to accomplish for Canadians when you decide you've had enough of Trudeau's dumb quips and vote the Tories in?
Has PeePee ever had a real job? Does he know any "real Canadians"? Does he have an actual policy position on anything? Does he have any real plans to deal with any of the crises that Canada is facing?
The housing crisis is a real fucking crisis that is wrecking this country. What does PeePee intend to do about it?
How about immigration? And the hit on CPP from aging Canadians and the falling birth rate?
The answer I get to all of that is.... PeePee doesn't give a fuck and will do dick-all about any of that shit.
PeePee's popular?........... Yeah, so was Boris Johnson when tens of millions of dumbass Brits believed that Brexit would suddenly make Britain the most prosperous country in the world again within 10 years. It was a classic rightie populist bullshit scam. Like everything Trump and PeePee say and do as well.
Try PeePee for 5 years. You'll be rid of the woke dickhead you despise. And you'll get a no-talent, Tory career insider who will do fuck-all to solve any real problems and come up with a series of Boris-style political gimmicks to survive in Ottawa. Like the new-style British Tories who are almost certainly about to lose the biggest landslide election in UK history.
Or maybe PeePee will suddenly invent Canexit or "Build a Wall".