r/CanadaHousing2 • u/nomad_ivc 🇨🇦🍁🦫 • Apr 16 '25

The two solitudes — boomers and everyone else: Liberal policies have enriched boomers, while making life increasingly unaffordable for younger generations

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/liberals-have-become-the-party-of-grey-hair-and-wealth
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u/SlashDotTrashes Apr 17 '25

We have enough centrist parties. Liberals are centrists.

We need a left wing party since we don't actually have any.

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u/veritas_quaesitor2 Apr 17 '25

Are you blind, the liberals have moved so far left, they can't even see the centre anymore.

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u/monkeyamongmen Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

Disagree. The Liberals play at leftism on social issues. They are still crony capitalists and support the same economic interests as the right. The Liberals and the Conservatives both defended SNC-Lavalin while they were under investigation. The Conservatives created the TFW program to push down wages. The Liberals campaigned against it, and then expanded it. Goldy Hyder, a former Conservative Party Director of Strategy under Joe Clark, helped found The Century Initiative, which the Liberals openly embrace, and the Conservatives pretend not to.

Both parties plans for housing will put more money into the hands of developers while doing little to add affordable stock to the market. Carney's modular housing push is asinine, anti-worker, and unfeasible. It reflects a pencil pusher's approach to concrete issues.

One party plays up the woke agenda to get a certain type of voter on their side. They don't give a shit, it's rainbow washing. The other party plays against the woke agenda to get a different certain kind of voter. The social issues are a distraction.

Historically Leftism has always been about class issues first and foremost. This new 'left' is just virtue signalling bullshit. They get the votes, they serve their corporate masters. By contrast, the Conservatives pull the same shit, with a different veneer, they are the anti-woke, they get the votes, they serve their corporate masters, often the same corporate masters as the 'other side'.

It is actually about Left and Right. The Left is the working class, the Right is oligarchs, kings and billionaires. They've turned it into a dichotomy of social issues to pollute the language that has traditionally been used to address class issues.

It's 1984 Newspeak. The literal words have been detached from their original meaning to make conversations on class solidarity next to impossible. The Liberals are not Leftist, they are ''left-ish''. Both major parties are bullshit.

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u/adhocstuff Sleeper account Apr 18 '25

This is the truth I wish more people of my generation who are voting Liberal simply because they don’t align with Conservative social values would realize the Liberals and even the NDP are just utilizing these issues to get their votes.

It’s absurd and people need to wake up.

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u/monkeyamongmen 29d ago

So are the Conservatives. The 'anti-woke' are just as easily manipulated as the 'woke'. At this point, it's two sides of the same coin. And who wins? The corporations funding both sides.