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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

All this "elbows out" bullshit is 100% keyboard warriors who are clueless about how intertwined the two economies are.
Doug Ford can do the stupid stunts for Sun readers, but away from the cameras he has let US interests buy out a significant portion of the Ontario economy. We forget like goldfish in 2018 he was "MAGA" and "A Republican" in his own public words. So now his brand is "elbows out" and Ontario hick simps keep voting for him.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wow, lotta liberal distortions here, but yes there's a reason that those two rhetorical approaches work. Canadians are white supremacist and only turn on US imperialism when they can see it as a threat to their own white identity. Most are also politically illiterate to the point that the common interest of capital is effectively obscured by whatever superficial crisis there is about Canadian sovereignty.

Also, Ford does not win from votes, he wins from the voting system. Ontario Cons consistently win elections with a minority vote with low voter turnout. White suburbanites and rural voters correctly identify that their immediate material wealth is dependent on the maintenance of a hierarchal system, and they do not care about how short term that way of life is so long as they have it until they die. So, their votes are weighted highly because they are the most likely to support capital while urban voters are forced to fight Liberals and Cons to just get a welfare liberal NDP MPP.