The rising popularity of the Conservatives is really a sight to behold. A party who just a few years ago basically only existed on paper and now have a shot at actually forming government. A party of the most smooth-brained, reactionary, anti-vaxx, culture war dipshits whose success appears to be almost entirely due to riding the coat tails of Poilievre and the seeming inability of the voting public to distinguish between Provincial and Federal politics.
Keeping them out of power should be a no-brainer, but concurrently I am so fucking pissed at the BC NDP for their arrogance and hypocrisy. Their climate / environmental policies, particularly LNG extraction / fracking / old growth forestry, make an absolute mockery of their stated cLiMaTe tArGeTs.
And, in the same way that the Democrats in the Burgerland Junta beat back a popular insurgency by ratfucking Bernie (twice), so too did the BC NDP with Anjali Appadurai. There was a movement of thousands of progressive young people who actually gave a shit about climate change who were slated to win the nomination because Eby couldn't be bothered to actually run a fucking campaign, and instead inherited his political fiefdom because it was "his turn".
Granted, I like Eby ok, certainly way more than Horgan, and his housing policies have been great. They basically declared war on Air BnB, and the fact that they've yeeted public consultations for housing developments and are forcing the most insufferable rat bastard NIMBY municipalities in this province to actually build some fucking housing is not only effective but also incites a deep sense of schadenfreude in my soul - for there are few groups of people in this world whom I despise more than NIMBYs, perhaps only antivaxxers, fascists, and religious fundamentalists.
But fuck me for "making the perfect the enemy of good", right? I just need to get in line and vote for the people who sent jack booted thugs to pepper spray and assault my fucking friends at Fairy Creek. Vote for the people speedrunning the any% climate change challenge while at the same time claiming they're doing the opposite.
Honestly, I feel like having the Greens as kingmakers such as in 2017 would be the optimal outcome. I really don't like the bike-riding capitalist party, and the Communists aren't likely going to run anybody for me to light my vote on fire with (although I hope they do, if even just to get them into the debates). Keep the socdems as administrators but punish them a little bit for their rat fuckery.
But, on the other hand: mother of god, I certainly don't want us to become another Alberta and have SOGI123 summarily executed in broad daylight.
So, in a sense, I feel like I am being held hostage because of the " other worse party ™ ".
Anyway, [/RANT]
Yeah. There's so many people from Alberta working here too that it's got to be the NDP. i know tepid libs who're saying they're going to vote conservative from now on i hate this place.
The 2017 situation was cool but it's not like any of the good stuff they promised came through. Only thing i remember Horgan following through on was removing the tolls from the port mann and golden ears
Yeah, all true.
I live in a very NDP-safe riding so I feel like I may have the leeway to do a protest vote and just cut their probably-inevitable win here down a fraction of a percentage point. The Owen Jones strategy, if you will.
I really do feel like the BCNDP took a look at the generation of young activists that joined the party in 2022, looked us in the eye and told us to go fuck ourselves lol.
Granted, Eby was kind of caught off guard and was forced into that position, but they still did what they did.
God damn I hate first past the post what a stupid system we have.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I’m not a citizen yet and can’t vote but hard agree with everything you said. I still find it hard to believe the conservatives would win though, somehow, maybe because I live in dt Vancouver