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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Makes me feel a lot bettter about losing high quality men such as Jagmeet Singh and Jonathan Pedneault!

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't agree! Muclair and Singh moved so far to center they destroyed the party. Not just my words, the party removed all reference to socialism from the party constitution.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was a strategy that made a half-assed amount of sense during the years where the Liberals were struggling. Canadians (particularly Ontario) seems to like their politics roughly center. So if you want to supplant the Liberals as the main party representing the Left, you can't be too far left. Same thing happens to the Conservatives. Every time they drift too far right to appease the Alberta crowd, they start losing the Ontario suburbs.

Plus, "socialism" is still a bad word for most of the older population. You can get rid of the word, change none of the policies, and that will be enough to keep the "socialism bad" crowd happy.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

This is how the Overton window shifts right. Socialists need to be louder and more visible than ever.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can't disagree with your overview of why it happened, except with policy it's not just removing scary words. And really the shift started under Layton, I should be accurate. Tbf he did almost win with that strategy. Fuck cancer.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Oh no, did Jagmeet lose his seat too? I'm a liberal but Jagmeet is a good guy, didn't deserve that.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

It got closer overnight.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] RabidStork@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago
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