In Canada, young people went overwhelmingly conservative after observing the Left in power:
It’s going to be really funny when only the most irredeemable oldsters vote liberal (or far-left, which is the NDP).
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“young people went overwhelmingly conservative after observing the Left in power”
Andrew Hammel noticed something similar in Germany where young voters are the ones who actually deal day to day with decades of bad policy….
https://x.com/AndrewHammel1/status/1838138783423717558
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I think it is also a question of seeing that something has been taken away from them – national identity, religious and cultural values – with no evident benefits for them. The previous generations – post-war boomers, anti-Vietnam war hippies, Reaganite yuppies – all got something in terms of socio-economic advancement and really couldn’t give a fig about what they saw as a bankrupt national system, even as they were reaping huge benefits from it. But for today’s youth, what’s in the globalised governance blueprints for them?
If they haven’t drunk the cool aid of the Schwab-Soros world-without-borders climate change catastrophism you-will-own-nothing-and-you-will-be-happy indoctrination plan, all they can see is growing pauperization, collapsed infrastructure and an increasingly meaningless cultural frame bereft of any significant values.
People need faith, vision, something to live and die for. Uncaptured young people are our best hope of salvaging human civilization.
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I think that in general, young people today are more conservative than we were in my generation. Isolating age as a variable is useful, but I think that in that case it is not necessarily that relevant because everything and their mother will vote conservative in the next election. Except in Québec, of course, where the Bloc Québécois is the more popular option to vote against the Liberal/NDP alliance.
NDP is not far left. For the last decade or so, they have been lost between identity politics, neoliberal policies, and their traditional voice for social democracy…
Canadian politics is 50 shades of neoliberalism. Pick your Conor. I really do not know who to vote for for the next election…
Ol.
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The left has completely neoliberalized, though. This anti-neoliberal left we remember from 20 years ago doesn’t exist. I still miss it but it’s gone.
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