Anti-progressive policies are why housing is an investment instead of a right. If true progressives were voted into power then landlords would be taxed out of existence and housing would be affordable for everyone again.
Instead centralists want to make it easier for people to get on the “ladder” and then continue to let the prices frow infinitely, kickin the can down the road until someone realizes basic community functions can’t escalate in price infinitely without doing more harm. Conservatives want something even worse, they want to protect commercial investors such that rent grows higher every year and renters have less rights.
If Jagmeet wasn’t a true progressive, why did NDP keep doubling down instead of kicking him out?
Do you know who destroyed the Ontario liberal party? A true progressive, psychotic ideologue.
Leftists’ appeal to purity and ever shifting goalposts aren’t palatable anymore.
You know what else causes harm? Flooding the country with more people from elsewhere when the citizens can’t afford housing and food after paying exuberant taxes all their lives.
I think “progressives” have caused enough harm already. The majority of this country does not want your “utopia”.
The reality is progressive policies lead to better societal outcomes, one of which is housing being more efficient (either cheaper for the same quality, or higher quality for the same price).
So if your politicians haven’t enacted policies to accomplish those things then they aren’t progressives no matter what they say or what the media is telling you. Immigrants are not the reason Canada has the issues it has. Everywhere in the world is claiming that same issue, it’s just not accurate. If governments wanted to solve the housing issue they could and swiftly.
I know Canada hasn’t banned landlords and I have no doubt they’re more interested in protecting the investments of the wealthy than they are interested in delivering better life outcomes for it’s people. So they by definition the people in charge can’t be progressives. This isn’t a purity test it’s a fundamental definition check. Maybe they’re progressives in terms of social rights but that’s only one of the government’s role.
Why does NDP or Green Party always fail find a “real progressive” leader time and time again?
Why do you hide behind the “progressive” label? Why not outright own the fact that you want full blown communism? Cuz it seems you want full blown “everyone is equal but some are more equal than others” communism.
Idk enough about Canadian politics to comment on the NDP or the greens. I’d love to do some reading, I imagine the same exact patterns would play out there as they’ve played out everywhere, which is the people in power are not people for the people.
I don’t want “full blown communism”, idk really what that even means. I’m positive you don’t either because of how you’re talking about it. What I do want is for you to own your business (or your share of the business if you work with others), the building you do your work in (or your share, etc), the tools you use to do your work, the profit of your work, the home you live in, and the right to do with your profits and your stuff as you see fit (as long as it doesn’t endanger anyone else). I also want the money you pay towards your community (taxes) to benefit you and your neighbors far more than it benefits the people who are necessary to administer those community benefits (small, efficient government) or the people who would attempt to corrupt those administers. That means univeral healthcare, that means robust public transit, that means free education and quality libraries and protected parks. That means renewable energy and strong regulatory bodies. That means a no more than sufficient sized military and strong trade bonds. That means easy immigration and emigration, so governments are held accountable via immigration.
I don’t care what you call that, but you have to recognize that as the best future for all people, the most cost efficient future, and the one that would do the most objectively good and good based on any major religion I think.
Communism is a stupid, archaic idea that has not and will never work. It’s no different than chasing an ‘islamic utopia’ or a Mormon ‘zion’.
I’m with you on most of it with some caveats. You can’t build strong social nets and public services with local taxes and then open the floodgates to everyone in the world. You either limit access to the services and benefits for those who didn’t pay or severely limit immigration. Can’t have both simultaneously.
This isn’t to say “immigrants are the reason Canada has issues” but I’m not naive enough to pretend immigration itself doesn’t affect anything at all. Both negative as well as positive.
NDP and Green Party are ideological parties that pretend to be for the workers but they’re only in it for themselves and their unrealistic, fanciful delusions. Exactly as you said, they’re people in power who are not for the people.
Anti-progressive policies are why housing is an investment instead of a right. If true progressives were voted into power then landlords would be taxed out of existence and housing would be affordable for everyone again.
Instead centralists want to make it easier for people to get on the “ladder” and then continue to let the prices frow infinitely, kickin the can down the road until someone realizes basic community functions can’t escalate in price infinitely without doing more harm. Conservatives want something even worse, they want to protect commercial investors such that rent grows higher every year and renters have less rights.
What’s Olivia Chow? Chopped liver?
If Jagmeet wasn’t a true progressive, why did NDP keep doubling down instead of kicking him out?
Do you know who destroyed the Ontario liberal party? A true progressive, psychotic ideologue.
Leftists’ appeal to purity and ever shifting goalposts aren’t palatable anymore.
You know what else causes harm? Flooding the country with more people from elsewhere when the citizens can’t afford housing and food after paying exuberant taxes all their lives.
I think “progressives” have caused enough harm already. The majority of this country does not want your “utopia”.
The reality is progressive policies lead to better societal outcomes, one of which is housing being more efficient (either cheaper for the same quality, or higher quality for the same price).
So if your politicians haven’t enacted policies to accomplish those things then they aren’t progressives no matter what they say or what the media is telling you. Immigrants are not the reason Canada has the issues it has. Everywhere in the world is claiming that same issue, it’s just not accurate. If governments wanted to solve the housing issue they could and swiftly.
I know Canada hasn’t banned landlords and I have no doubt they’re more interested in protecting the investments of the wealthy than they are interested in delivering better life outcomes for it’s people. So they by definition the people in charge can’t be progressives. This isn’t a purity test it’s a fundamental definition check. Maybe they’re progressives in terms of social rights but that’s only one of the government’s role.
Why does NDP or Green Party always fail find a “real progressive” leader time and time again?
Why do you hide behind the “progressive” label? Why not outright own the fact that you want full blown communism? Cuz it seems you want full blown “everyone is equal but some are more equal than others” communism.
Idk enough about Canadian politics to comment on the NDP or the greens. I’d love to do some reading, I imagine the same exact patterns would play out there as they’ve played out everywhere, which is the people in power are not people for the people.
I don’t want “full blown communism”, idk really what that even means. I’m positive you don’t either because of how you’re talking about it. What I do want is for you to own your business (or your share of the business if you work with others), the building you do your work in (or your share, etc), the tools you use to do your work, the profit of your work, the home you live in, and the right to do with your profits and your stuff as you see fit (as long as it doesn’t endanger anyone else). I also want the money you pay towards your community (taxes) to benefit you and your neighbors far more than it benefits the people who are necessary to administer those community benefits (small, efficient government) or the people who would attempt to corrupt those administers. That means univeral healthcare, that means robust public transit, that means free education and quality libraries and protected parks. That means renewable energy and strong regulatory bodies. That means a no more than sufficient sized military and strong trade bonds. That means easy immigration and emigration, so governments are held accountable via immigration.
I don’t care what you call that, but you have to recognize that as the best future for all people, the most cost efficient future, and the one that would do the most objectively good and good based on any major religion I think.
Communism is a stupid, archaic idea that has not and will never work. It’s no different than chasing an ‘islamic utopia’ or a Mormon ‘zion’.
I’m with you on most of it with some caveats. You can’t build strong social nets and public services with local taxes and then open the floodgates to everyone in the world. You either limit access to the services and benefits for those who didn’t pay or severely limit immigration. Can’t have both simultaneously.
This isn’t to say “immigrants are the reason Canada has issues” but I’m not naive enough to pretend immigration itself doesn’t affect anything at all. Both negative as well as positive.
NDP and Green Party are ideological parties that pretend to be for the workers but they’re only in it for themselves and their unrealistic, fanciful delusions. Exactly as you said, they’re people in power who are not for the people.