He’s a climate change denier, so you can see both why he won’t work with BC United, and why you’d have to be completely devoid from reality to vote for him.
On the one hand, it’s nice to see the right fighting itself.
On the other hand, seeing the Conservatives be the ones in the lead of the two parties is… not great.
We went from a right-of-centre BC ‘United’ vs a left-of-centre BC NDP, to a right-wing BC Cons vs a left-of-centre BC NDP. I’m not loving that shift to an even worse opposition party.
I don’t think the voters actually care, though. I think they just want to hurt other people, and that’s really the end of it. No-one who works for a living and didn’t inherit their parents wealth will improve under current Conservative governments.
Someone has succeeded in stealing the meaning out from under them.
It’s debatable, how far back do we have to go before we have ‘actual’ conservatives? Pretty much to the start when they were set up to take power back from the plebians.
We grew up in a world where every day was warm and beautiful in the summer. We never worried about checking air quality and now it feels like our kids are going to live in a world where they need to wear gas masks outside.
Well we could have voted for people who want to fix this, but we didn’t (I’m using a royal ‘we’ for millenials here) – and now we continue to vote conservative, so it’ll keep happening.
Sadly I think our kids, while wearing gas masks, will be the ones to actually approach this both from a ‘left-wing’ side and deal with it.
I honestly don’t have an optimistic take for you here, and mostly agree with you. At some point the adults have to admit we took safe summers away from our kids, and their kids, and do things to slow (not remove) the issue, but we won’t
I dunno, I feel like helping fund a publicly funded hospitals new infant radiant warmer is pretty far distant from tipping a landlord. Maybe that’s my Canadian bias?