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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mr-trudeaus-many-millstones/Justin Trudeau may face a surprisingly tough election fight this year. His worst problem is not the winsome dimples of Andrew Scheer (a man few of us would recognize if we bumped into him). His problem is that after three years of exposure, the charm has worn thin. He is often glib. He strikes a lot of voters as fatuous and superficial. He’s smart enough, but it’s a mean old world out there and people understandably wonder if he’s up to the challenges that Canada is facing. He can’t make tough choices. Instead, he tells us we can have it all – pipelines along with carbon taxes, and substantial deficits which he swears are being spent on good investments. Not everyone is buying it.
The disenchantment with Mr. Trudeau has driven his party’s popularity down to about 36 per cent in the polls – only two points ahead of the Conservatives, as noted by UBC professor Richard Johnston.Mr. Trudeau’s own approval rating is lower than U.S. President Donald Trump’s. A new Nik Nanos poll says that 35 per cent of Canadians approve of the Trudeau government’s performance – about the same percentage who approved of Stephen Harper’s performance in 2014.
Does everyone around here understand this truth, and maybe understand what this means?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mr-trudeaus-many-millstones/
I have my doubts.
Does everyone around here understand this truth, and maybe understand what this means?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mr-trudeaus-many-millstones/
I have my doubts.
Does everyone around here understand this truth, and maybe understand what this means?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mr-trudeaus-many-millstones/
I have my doubts.
Like Trump, his lack of popularity is well-deserved. The man is a false progressive, Macron like figure who has failed to deliver on important promises like electoral reform, rejecting the recommendations of his own review board because it wasn't politically expedient, nevermind his coziness with big money and corporations, and his billion dollar giveaway to Kinder Morgan when he massively overpaid for their pipeline.
If he wins, it will be because as usual, the opposing leadership is so weak. I like Jagmeet Singh well enough, but, keeping it real, even as an NDP supporter, I don't think he has the charisma to overcome his ethnicity on the national stage.
I agree strongly with your first paragraph and the opening line of your second paragraph. On the issue of charisma vs ethnicity I do not agree but that is for another debate.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
Does everyone around here understand this truth, and maybe understand what this means?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mr-trudeaus-many-millstones/
I have my doubts.
Just think how things would be if the leftists didn't get full support from almost all media, TV, movies, ect.
Like Trump, his lack of popularity is well-deserved. The man is a false progressive, Macron like figure who has failed to deliver on important promises like electoral reform, rejecting the recommendations of his own review board because it wasn't politically expedient, nevermind his coziness with big money and corporations, and his billion dollar giveaway to Kinder Morgan when he massively overpaid for their pipeline.
If he wins, it will be because as usual, the opposing leadership is so weak. I like Jagmeet Singh well enough, but, keeping it real, even as an NDP supporter, I don't think he has the charisma to overcome his ethnicity on the national stage.
Re. electoral reform- we had our say on the subject here in BC and it was overwhelmingly against, something like 66% to 33% (close to, I don't remember exactly). There were three proportional representation options and we don't want any of them. I'm waiting, but not holding my breath, for the subsidized day-care promise to be acted on.
I've been a Liberal Party voter all my life, when I voted (except for one year awhile ago when I voted for the Rhinocerus Party) but I nearly sat this last one out because I wasn't big on Trudeau 2.0. The Conservative Party attack ads pissed me off so much, though, that I voted. I liked the way he did some things, didn't like some others, but when he bought that pipeline he lost me. I'll probably sit out the next election but it won't matter- my riding is a shoe-in for the NDP anyway.
Does everyone around here understand this truth, and maybe understand what this means?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mr-trudeaus-many-millstones/
I have my doubts.
Its time for PM Pixy-Dust to get outta the way and let a grown up run things now.
Just think how things would be if the leftists didn't get full support from almost all media, TV, movies, ect.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-milo-example_2736245.htmlIn sum, Yiannopoulos recast the left’s moral terms—racism, oppression, sexism, and transphobia—as tactical terms. Those accusations, so often tossed at conservatives, are a threatening verbal bullet. Most conservatives flinch when they hear them. Yiannopoulos’s irreverence, coupled with his rhetorical explanation of how those terms work, lowered their caliber.
That’s why he had to go. The left and liberals have relied on guilt as a political weapon for a long time. It has served them well. To be disarmed of it, to find that one’s lexicon of -isms and -phobias no longer work in debate or in politics, is to lose a treasured ally. It tells leftists, “You’re not as superior and good as you think you are.”
In other words, Yiannopoulos threatened their self-esteem. They got it back by shutting him down.
Ya he is a child, but notice how he was advertised as the shining star for all in the West to follow. Macron likewise. And look at how fast they both crashed into reality.
It is not just that they both suck that is alarming, it is also that those who claimed to be your betters told you that they were absolutely sure that he is awesome...which males them either liars or idiots or both.
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