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People very quickly forget things like this that Cons do.
The Con party of today is not like older ones. I'm in my 40's, and I'm used to a Nationalistic, yea-Canada Conservative party. What I am not used to is this:
And that's from two years ago. The man who insulted our country, who is against all the things we favourably compare ourselves against Americans with (our socialized Healthcare, our lack of need to arm ourselves to go for a walk, etc), and they're giving him the nod (Also the rape, the misogyny, insulting someone for their disability, the general incompetence, etc). Look at those numbers, 44% of Cons want Trump in power again.
Conservative voters should really be looking in the mirror to see what they want to be: Right-of-Centre economists, or Right-Wing boot-lickers. It seems for now they've chosen the later.
Modern Canadian conservatives aren’t the tame fiscal conservatives we used to have indeed. This violent steering of the right wing towards social conservatism is worrying as fuck, and should be for anyone but hard traditionalists. It’s insane to see anybody who cares about Canada support Trump in any way with how he fucked us over and over.
Fiscal conservatism, in the strictest sense, has always been a means of conserving the favored hierarchies. We don't fund social programs, and as a result we maintain the rich/poor dynamic for example. This definition has nothing to do with prudent effective spending, I think.
What we think of as traditional Canadian fiscal conservatism is more correctly prudent fiscal liberalism. A willingness to engage in the use of fiscally measures for social gain so long as the funding is effective.
It's a shame that fiscal conservatism has somehow become synonymous with wanting to spend money wisely.
Oh, you don’t have to convince me of their objectives. They just used to be less… upfront about it, not so long ago.