Originally Posted by
aggroculture
the rising conservative/fascist/authoritarian tide is global - from Rodrigo Duterte to Doug Ford: my feeling is that Canada will swing rightwards too
I think I've come to accept that instead of enjoying the years left to me they will be spent in some kind of struggle against fascism that we will all be involved in over the next years and decades because this fight is about to get uglier and uglier as the right refuses to concede power
the numbers are against them: there are more liberal and left voters in the US, who are denied power because of gerrymandering/voter suppression/first past the post electoral systems and electoral colleges etc. In Canada, in Ontario Doug Ford has 40% of the vote - 60% of voters did not want him - and now he's rigging the coming election in Toronto.
they won't go down without a fight, and the left has to be prepared to get a lot dirtier if they're going to reverse this trend