"Conservatives don't run around saying Canada is broken because they want to fix it. They want a license to demolish and destroy, including many of the things on which we all depend. Because populists don't understand how our economy and our society actually works." —Prime Minister Mark Carney - ThreadSky

cdnresistance.bsky.social • 4 days ago

"Conservatives don't run around saying Canada is broken because they want to fix it. They want a license to demolish and destroy, including many of the things on which we all depend. Because populists don't understand how our economy and our society actually works."

—Prime Minister Mark Carney

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hillenburg.bsky.social•4 days ago

All you have to do is look south of the border to see how that will turn out 🙄

the-astrodome.bsky.social•4 days ago

From your American friends: Don’t think it can’t happen to you, too. Let us stand as a warning. RW fanaticism is a danger everywhere

diasrt.bsky.social•4 days ago

I disagree with this a little. Not all populism is bad but Far-right populusts, fake populists don't get it

sophieleon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Populism is being used by oligarchs and the right to subvert the minds of people, to steal democracies all over the world

1marzipan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Populism ... if I can't get ahead, let's make sure nobody can. The fallout from Doge in the USA hasn't even followed Elons getaway, along with general industrial collapse.

diasrt.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also THAT is nothing even close to actual populism.... but when manopulated y those with ill intentions it can turn into anything.

diasrt.bsky.social•4 days ago

Again, far-right populism. Populism, as with any ideology, can be manipulated into something negative or positive. Just depends on ejo us doing the weilding.

diasrt.bsky.social•4 days ago

Key point there: being used

It can be used in that way, yes. Anh poliyicdl ideology can be manipulated

scotiasheppard.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, no

hannacooks.bsky.social•4 days ago

It very nearly happened. And it will happen as soon as the CPC derail PM Carney's gov't. The CPC are shameless zealots. They will achieve annexation by any means possible. The CDN RW have a deal in place with Trump. Smith, Ford, PP, Harper. It's just a matter of time. They have $ and the arrogance.

sophieleon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Defeatism, accepting this as fate is not the answer.

hannacooks.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh I'm not a defeatist at all. I'm actually an activist. I fight every day to motivate people to get involved. I'm just so intimately familiar with Ontarian and Canadian apathy that I can predict that 15 minutes after the federal election most will go back to complacency. That's how the RW win.

hannacooks.bsky.social•4 days ago

See Ford's Ontario. See the federal political scene before Mark Carney declared his interest in running. Canadians need to stay vigilant.

frances-speakupok.bsky.social•4 days ago

We don’t need to elect the Canadian version of MaGa and that’s how the federal conservatives project who they are.

silver996.bsky.social•4 days ago

Harris did the same thing in Ontario. Everything is broken and not working so only privatized government operations can save everything. Then all these firms made a killing taking over all sorts of operations plus selling off the 407.

margo-charchuk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hear, Hear!

josephwesker.bsky.social•4 days ago

An accurate assessment, that applies through every geopolitical dynamic....unfortunately, here (U.S.) idiots think populism is "good".
Existence's progress & innovation is evidently *Quality over quantity.....but it's unfortunately reversed here (U.S.), resulting in our country's deterioration.

jayskis.bsky.social•4 days ago

This helps explain current conservative behavior. https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/western-alienation-20

westmm.bsky.social•12 hours ago

📌

scotiasheppard.bsky.social•4 days ago

Populism is defined by people rising up against the elites but in America the elites fooled the people that the ones fighting for them were the elites. All conspiracy theorists were fooled by this. The trees voted for the axe because the axes handle was made of wood.

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