targaryenmelodrama:

allthecanadianpolitics:

I’ve been thinking lately about the issues that Centre-Left and Leftwing parties in Canada have with being elected.

I don’t think it has that much to do with what they’re proposing as most of the policies established by these parties exist in many other countries with progressive governments (particularly in Northern Europe).

I don’t even think the issue is of myths spread about these parties about supposed fiscal mismanagement (even though most of these points are outright lies created by the Right and gleefully shared by Centrists).

I think the main issue is that in order for these parties to gain support, the people must be convinced that Canada has major systematic problems surrounding social issues.

And frankly I don’t think many Canadians are comfortable believing that there are major issues of poverty, racism, income inequality and sexism in our society. Heck Canada has one of the worst universal healthcare systems in the world, but we’re fine with that because at least we’re not the USA.

In Canada Liberals at best are just trying to stick with the status quo or make tiny tweaks here and there, as we’re facing crises of poverty and anti-native racism. Conservatives on the other hand are pretending there are no systematic issues in Canada and if we just killed ‘big government’ and got rid of the Liberals and their ‘bad policies’ that we’d be in a utopia. Its a huge joke.

It shows that many in the USA are having a more adult conversation around race, income inequality and social disparities than Canada despite the USA’s politics being shifted so far to the right in comparison. Many of the Democratic Socialist candidates in the USA are being more widely accepted than even slightly left policies in Canada. The NDP is accused of being a communist and creating a class war for daring to propose taxes on unused luxury mansions, and for raising the minimum wage to $15/hour (that’s only $11.71 in US Dollars!)

I’m just really getting sick of Canadians and their smugness, when they point fingers at the USA and not even blinking as we’re getting screwed left and right by Centrists and Conservatives, and our only option to make things better languish in a permanent 3rd place, discounted for being too ‘radical’.

These same people who are blaming the NDP or Quebec Solidaire for being too radical, are completely open to electing the Doug Ford’s of this country who have been gutting climate change policies, overriding the constitution, imposing austerity, cutting sex education back decades and appointing insiders to government positions. But of courses that’s not radical, that’s just Conservatism. =/

The part about Canadians not believing we have social issues is 100000000% accurate. “Haha, we’re not the US, look at Trump, haha!” Meanwhile Indigenous people are still being murdered by white citizens *and* by the State, still being removed from their lands, still being incarcerated at disproportional rates, their women still missing and murdered. There is no justice.

Black folks are still being incarcerated at disproportional rates, racial profiling and police brutality are thriving. 

Don’t get me started on the islamophobia, the xenophobia, the shit other POC face, antisemitism, systemic sexism and misogyny, poverty getting worse and worse, crises in homelessness in most major cities (where it isn’t affordable to live anyway).

Quebec citizens specifically keep asking for change but then go around and elect a party that has no interest in addressing the problems that actually relate to them, ‘cause fuck competence and facts and actual fucking change when your leader is as racist as you are, right? 

I’m so fucking tired.