So many people blaming Eby, but voters decide the election. If BC goes with the Conservatives, it’s because of people who vote for them. I wish Eby hadn’t called it, but I wish far more that we didn’t have so many people choosing to vote for a bunch of nutjobs, bigots, and cynical untrustworthy incompetents. That’s where blame belongs if the province flips.
Fuck me. Rural voters are so fucking dumb.
Its not the rurals people are such of thevincinpabts because of cost of living. People get upset and vote out who is in power happens all the time.
This time the conservatives will give us freedoms and low taxes without wrecking public services, I promise. ;)
I mean he has done a food job of increasing deficite. I don’t get the vote for “my party” people. They all suck we should not have majorities but then wevneed electoral reform. And tjatvseems impossible.
Vancouver is also supporting the Conservatives over Eby. Every region includes Vancouver, in case you were unsure on the definition of ‘every’.
Yuck. BC is a mess.
Eby’s a fuckin’ idiot. What was he even thinking?
He was thinking his opponents were in disarray. What he should have been doing, though, is remembering how quickly the right came together before the last election. They can unify pretty quickly, if temporarily, when it means these grifters will get a chance to rob the public coffers.
And thanks to the international right wing media ecosystem that has been built up over the last couple of decades whatever party emerges from that process can count on a significant amount of support no matter how obviously incompetent they have shown themselves to be very recently.
It isn’t just that they can unify, but they’re masters of cognitive dissonance. They’ll make up all kinds of excuses to rally around a single point, and they don’t often consider the other views of a politician so long as their personal interest is pandered to in some way. Conservative parties rarely split because they simply do not need to. Technically, they are split(CPC and LPC) but upsettingly simple branding has kept them separate.
Meanwhile, the same problem exists with our other major parties except instead of pushing left, most of the country falls in line with the “center” and we get full-blown capitalist goblins in the form of the LPC. The LPC claims that we need to make a sacrifice to fight the CPC but will NEVER admit that it’s the centrists who need to go progressive.
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Not a chance. Loads of people in the province, including the opposition, municipalities, etc. were saying he shouldn’t call one. If he was feeling any pressure to call an early election (he wasn’t) he had plenty of ways to resist it. This election is 100% on him.
Who, though?
This shows that the thing BC dislikes more than incompetence, hatred, discrimination and American influence is someone inconveniencing them with a snap election to capitalize on those things.
Spite motivates more than facts, bc con fascism may swallow up BC whole.
Could be the biggest miscalculation intecent Canadian politics.
Quite a masterful play by Eby, this election is. Political hubris of the decade, mayhaps.
And before this one, David Peterson in Ontario
