Liberals (red) are the incumbent party, they're fairly centrist but have implemented some watered down progressive policies in recent years because the orange NDP (New Democratic Party) have been helping keep their minority government in power. For example they've begun to roll out an expansion of our health care to include dental and pharma coverage. There are some progressive ideas in the fringes of the Liberal party as well, like UBI, which is supported by one of the (unlikely) party leadership candidates to take over after Trudeau. They are generally pro business but not at the expense of all other considerations.
The NDP are progressives, they tend to advocate for things like wealth taxes and reducing the tax breaks on capital gains compared to income in order to fund more social programs and expand existing government services. They advocate for universal pharma, dental, and mental health care for example, as well as recently adding permanent sales tax removal from more essential products like a wider variety of foods and diapers into their platform. They are also pro union. You can think of them as social democrats.
Blue are the Conservatives. They have been shifting more and more right and especially since the pandemic have begun to cater to the fringe right wing opinions in Canada. Their current leader is a populist and culture warrior, bringing things like gender ideology into our political discourse and aligning with folks like Jordan Peterson. Against Trudeau he has had a commanding lead in the polls for a very long time, and "FUCK TRUDEAU" has been the message and the banner of that party for years. They're losing their lead steadily as (in my opinion) people are seeing the outcomes of that kind of politicking in the USA, and are unifying in the face of American threats. Their divisive politics are not effective anymore and they're scrambling to find a new message, so far they've just been comparing the prospective Liberal leadership to Trudeau and trying to recycle their old message.
Cyan is the Bloc Quebecois, a party that is essentially a Quebec Nationalist party. They tend to be fairly progressive on policy, but are concerned with Quebec issues and sometimes get into conservative territory in some of their ideology, with protectionist and anti-immigrant ideas. They ebb and flow in Quebec but don't really exist much elsewhere, but Quebec has a lot of population and a lot of seats in Parliament so they can be the third largest party often.
Green are the green party, they're generally socially progressive but surprisingly conservative in economic policy at times. They're never really a major contender in terms of seats, but they often split votes across Canada and can decide the outcome of dozens of seats by taking votes from socially progressive conservatives or from other progressive parties.
The major thing to note here is how much the Conservatives are falling in the polls. They had an insurmountable lead before Trump's reelection and before Trudeau announced his intent to resign. NDP is collapsing as well as people are in full strategic vote mode to deny a Conservative majority.
If you're not familiar with parliamentary politics, a majority is not unlike having a majority in Congress but with the added aspect that the Prime Minister is not directly elected by the people but is instead elected by Parliament. So a minority government can be challenged and a new election called by a vote of no confidence from the majority of Parliament, and a coalition of parties can run the country even if they individually don't hold the most seats.
The problems with that feed which he touched on in the video are pretty significant. If you subscribe to channels that put out lots of content and ones that rarely do, it becomes much harder to use.
One thing he didn't mention is also that it's not conducive to discovering and gradually catching up on the back catalogue of a new channel, which is something the home feed excels at.
I'm sure YouTube prefers you use the home feed and has no plans to improve subscriptions, and there are real issues with it, so it'll probably continue to decline.
Guy kicked off the thread by wishing bad things on genocide protestors, I find it hard to believe they care about these issues. In any other country they'd be a conservative
🤔 like protesting genocide and pressuring the party to select a progressive candidate? But that's illegal and everyone that did that were secret Trump supporters. You're just supposed to vote blue.
I don't disagree with you, my position is that I think people should have done damage mitigation by voting Harris in, but people that couldn't stomach supporting genocide are not my enemy.
I'm just betting that the people rushing to these threads to smugly feel superior for voting were also the ones trying to silence any opposition to Biden and Harris for their bad positions. The vibe in any discussion on Lemmy was "if you mention Palestine you're a Trump supporter" and those same pieces of shit are now saying "told you so" as if the way forward is to do LESS resistance.
That's what I'm talking about. Congrats, you voted and lost. Maybe don't fucking suppress actual progress the whole time between elections. If these people joined the left in holding Democrats accountable many elections ago, FUCKING GENOCIDE wouldn't have been a background policy common to both parties.
Now they're still finger pointing at the people who actually demand more from their politicians.
"Vote blue no matter who" got us here, THAT'S apathy.
wanna know what it might have looked like if millions of people that couldn't stomach voting Democrat did so?
every single election in my adult life.
when genocide is in the overton window all you can do is brace for impact.
USA is collapsing, and best we can do now is hope for a better future in its ashes. Delaying it for 20 years by letting the Democrats get away with more and more and more wasn't gonna change that.
I'm tired of you "liberals" looking for every opportunity to punch left instead of facing your real enemies. You're feeling smug because you did the one and only political action you're aware of, which is to tick a box every few years.
Every single bit of progress was led by people doing more, by people standing up, by people applying pressure between election days.
I'd trade every liberal that's now crying with their tail between their legs waiting for a chance to vote for those principled people who were applying real pressure to the government to resist genocide. Guess what: most of them also still voted blue.
All of you "vote blue no matter who" dogs barking at anyone who even dared to demand better from the Democrats are why that party has become complacent and completely and utterly useless. If you were more like the ones wanting more, if you joined them years ago instead of allowing the bare minimum of being "less bad" to be the only fucking platform of the Democrats for my entire adult life, then there would have been a party worth voting for and a party that's fighting back now.
They're lazy, out of touch, useless politicians, and YOU are to blame.
In the off chance that domestic producers can make those goods at a price cheaper than overseas_cost+25% guess what they'll charge? The same high price.
Liberals (red) are the incumbent party, they're fairly centrist but have implemented some watered down progressive policies in recent years because the orange NDP (New Democratic Party) have been helping keep their minority government in power. For example they've begun to roll out an expansion of our health care to include dental and pharma coverage. There are some progressive ideas in the fringes of the Liberal party as well, like UBI, which is supported by one of the (unlikely) party leadership candidates to take over after Trudeau. They are generally pro business but not at the expense of all other considerations.
The NDP are progressives, they tend to advocate for things like wealth taxes and reducing the tax breaks on capital gains compared to income in order to fund more social programs and expand existing government services. They advocate for universal pharma, dental, and mental health care for example, as well as recently adding permanent sales tax removal from more essential products like a wider variety of foods and diapers into their platform. They are also pro union. You can think of them as social democrats.
Blue are the Conservatives. They have been shifting more and more right and especially since the pandemic have begun to cater to the fringe right wing opinions in Canada. Their current leader is a populist and culture warrior, bringing things like gender ideology into our political discourse and aligning with folks like Jordan Peterson. Against Trudeau he has had a commanding lead in the polls for a very long time, and "FUCK TRUDEAU" has been the message and the banner of that party for years. They're losing their lead steadily as (in my opinion) people are seeing the outcomes of that kind of politicking in the USA, and are unifying in the face of American threats. Their divisive politics are not effective anymore and they're scrambling to find a new message, so far they've just been comparing the prospective Liberal leadership to Trudeau and trying to recycle their old message.
Cyan is the Bloc Quebecois, a party that is essentially a Quebec Nationalist party. They tend to be fairly progressive on policy, but are concerned with Quebec issues and sometimes get into conservative territory in some of their ideology, with protectionist and anti-immigrant ideas. They ebb and flow in Quebec but don't really exist much elsewhere, but Quebec has a lot of population and a lot of seats in Parliament so they can be the third largest party often.
Green are the green party, they're generally socially progressive but surprisingly conservative in economic policy at times. They're never really a major contender in terms of seats, but they often split votes across Canada and can decide the outcome of dozens of seats by taking votes from socially progressive conservatives or from other progressive parties.
The major thing to note here is how much the Conservatives are falling in the polls. They had an insurmountable lead before Trump's reelection and before Trudeau announced his intent to resign. NDP is collapsing as well as people are in full strategic vote mode to deny a Conservative majority.
If you're not familiar with parliamentary politics, a majority is not unlike having a majority in Congress but with the added aspect that the Prime Minister is not directly elected by the people but is instead elected by Parliament. So a minority government can be challenged and a new election called by a vote of no confidence from the majority of Parliament, and a coalition of parties can run the country even if they individually don't hold the most seats.