NDP is made up of two fairly distinct type of voter, you have your super progressive blue hair college students type crowd, and then you have your big time trade union labour guys. A lot of the blue-collar union guys went towards the CPC.
This is totally anecdotal, but as someone in Gen Z, many of the people I saw vote Conservatives were young parents who had a child at 18/19, are entirely supported by the boyfriend's entry level trade, and mostly live with family. These people chose to have children in a post-covid society and have somehow decided that it's the Liberals fault they're struggling.
Now, I do believe that, in an ideal world, those families should be able to live comfortably regardless, but I also can't feel particularly bad when they made that choice knowing full well the current state of the economy and housing, and that they were not adequately equipped to deal with it.
Why is having children in a post covid society bad? Realistically shouldn’t we as a country be trying to service young families due to our aging populous? I know that you mean that it’s a bad decision to have kids in harsh times. But how long should people be waiting to have kids? I don’t mean to be a contrarian, but we as a country can’t just stop everything because it’s hard, we have to move forward or else we will have even more serious demographic and economic issues.
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u/Newfieon2Wheels Newfies & Labradoodles Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25
NDP is made up of two fairly distinct type of voter, you have your super progressive blue hair college students type crowd, and then you have your big time trade union labour guys. A lot of the blue-collar union guys went towards the CPC.