Posted on 01/01/2019 5:02:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
As Canadians, we sit atop the continent, watching as our neighbours slide into cultural civil war. It has become easy to just be appalled as America becomes riven, with social media and antagonistic rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum erasing the middle ground. There are two Americas, incommensurably separated on the fundamental issues of the day: climate change, the economy, social issues like health and education, employment, the media, immigration in particular, and globalization and free trade.
We’ve learned more and more about the populism that has fuelled this complicated moment as the fracture in America races like wildfire throughout Western democracies. It is the biggest force reshaping democracy, our economies and public institutions... It is an institutional blind spot, largely denied or ridiculed by the media, and by the more comfortable and educated portions of society.
It is very much alive in Canada. In fact, our populist explosion has already had its first bangs and is likely to have a major impact on next year’s federal election.
Ordered populism has already become an illusive, misunderstood theme in provincial elections in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario. Indeed, Doug Ford and his Ontario Progressive Conservatives won thanks to a preponderance of working-class, male electoral support—but a closer examination of the vote shows that male millennials, against expectation, supported Ford in significant numbers and had a high turnout.
What is happening challenges the conventional view that the youngest adults of Canadian society—the millennials, now Canada’s largest electoral demographic—operate with roughly similar, progressive views and values.
(Excerpt) Read more at macleans.ca ...
The short end is this. Populism is on the upswing, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a difficult election ahead of him in 2019.
He’s called Tru-do-do by the common Canadian man.
Screw MacLean’s. They are, and always HAVE been as much of an official Liberal Party organ as the CBC.
Pssh. Canada will not have a cultural Civil War problem until they can compete with America with our generations of negritude. And more recently the Islamic culture that has invaded our society like kudzu.
Ping.
Populism is the people getting sick of progressives running and ruining their lives.
“Screw MacLean’s. They are, and always HAVE been as much of an official Liberal Party organ as the CBC.”
AGREED. As an ex-Kanadian, I should know. Macleans is the Time magazine of the North for our American Freepers on site. which means it’s full of obama..
Trudeau just needs a minority government to keep things going. He’ll make deals with the other leftist party to function as a majority government. Canada needs to go Venezuela if socialism is be repudiated.
i spoke with someone last week from Canada- he told me liberals are crapping in their pants. Something to the extent they don’t have the number of candidates they need...
What we are witnessing is a world wide revolt against the NWO and the nanny states that support it.
We are your dandruff.
Yes, very much a "we are correct, and you are wrong and evil", article.
“It is the product of economic despair, inequality, and yes, racism and xenophobia.”
LOL
Canada is overwhelmingly white, 90%. And is not facing a massive illegal immigration problem.
There are two Americas, incommensurably separated on the fundamental issues of the day:
Right...the communists and their sympathizers and the real people.
There are two Americas, incommensurably separated on the fundamental issues of the day:
Right...the communists and their sympathizers and the real people.
Hilarious...doesn’t take much imagination.
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