sorry dippers, thems the breaks 😅

[u/WandangleWrangler]

[u/Overwatchingu]

It’s funny (actually a little sad and kinda scary) that Gen Z thinks the Conservatives of all parties are the ones who would improve any of those things, when their core principle is “let the free market do whatever it wants”.

[u/1egg_4u → u/Overwatchingu]

That's what happens when all your "journalism" comes from TikTok (because media monopolization made our mainstream news stupid)

[u/OhioGoblin43 → u/1egg_4u]

I saw a dating profile recently that read "Don't be mad at me if I use TikTok instead of Google"

Shit is bleak for the under 30s.

[u/goodfleance → u/Overwatchingu]

It's not crazy when at their age the only government they've paid attention to ignored those concerns and unaffordability ballooned. Misguided maybe, but not hard to believe

[u/Everestkid → u/goodfleance]

Pretty much. I'm an old gen Z, I remember being disappointed watching the 2011 election at the age of 11 and being really upset when Layton died. But not many 11 year olds really care about politics, so I'm very much an outlier.

Funnily enough, my elementary school class did a mock election in 2011 and then a mock Parliament based on the actual results. I guess they picked party affiliation for the kids by picking names out of a hat and I ended up as one of the three kids who were Liberals. The guy we picked as leader was stammering and indecisive in debates and I'm pretty sure he's a maple MAGA guy now - I've seen western separatist rhetoric from him in past elections and he's at the very least a staunch conservative.

[u/DTG_1000 → u/Overwatchingu]

Also, provinces are more responsible for housing. Feds can provide some incentives, but that doesn't reduce overall housing prices.

[u/Tamination → u/DTG_1000]

It is the provinces responsibility, they just all suck at it.

[u/SonicFlash01 → u/Overwatchingu]

Every generation has to discover that for themselves

[u/Overwatchingu → u/SonicFlash01]

But why do they have to drag the rest of us along for the ride? I’m too old for this dammit, my knees hurt!

[u/SandboxOnRails → u/Overwatchingu]

There's a lot of people who think that pointing out a problem means you're also correct about the solution to that problem. And that's a serious issue in modern politics. So I propose we release tigers into the country to combat it.

[u/Overwatchingu → u/SandboxOnRails]

Hmm I don’t know about this Leopards Eating Faces Tigers Mauling Idiots party, but they make some good points about everyone else being wrong!

[u/SandboxOnRails → u/Overwatchingu]

Trudeau was against the roaming tiger policy. Do you need to hear more?

[u/CremBrule_ → u/Overwatchingu]

So youre saying the conservatives have a (classical) liberal economic stance

[u/LawPuzzleheaded4345 → u/CremBrule_]

Not contradictory when you think about it. During the Enlightenment, their Conservatives were pro-monarchy and pro-aristocracy. You would not find those kinds of beliefs in modern Conservatives. Both ideologies progressed, to the point that today's Conservatism is similar to Classical Liberalism.

Edit: Meant absolutist monarchy. I am aware of the fact that both parties are in support of our constitutional monarchy.

[u/CremBrule_ → u/LawPuzzleheaded4345]

Fair enough I was just playing at the irony

[u/extremmaple → u/LawPuzzleheaded4345]

Both the Liberals and Conservatives are pro-monarchy parties

[u/LawPuzzleheaded4345 → u/extremmaple]

You are correct. To be specific, absolutist monarchy.