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Anything to the left of the Liberals is "tankies" now?
People to the left of Liberals aren't Tankies, but Tankies whinge that the winner is not left of Liberal. They would probably also whinge about an NDP PM. The only outcome I can see them celebrating is conservative victory. Tankies are scum of the earth.
The discourse on Lemmy however is a tendency to use "tankie" as some kind of othering identity marker. If I, an NDP and QS supporter, raise my hand and say "excuse me but Carney is a right wing Liberal, and I'm not comfortable with how the Overton Window has shifted to the right in Canada", there is a clear narrative that will lump me in with the Others, right? Who by virtue of being tankies are therefore traitorous to Canada and therefore, hello, here's the old red scare trope of "fellow travellers", "pinkos" and "useful idiots". Let's not pretend that's not the case.
You're right, demanding we expand NDP while throwing the election to conservatives does make you a traitor accomplice. And regardless of figure of speech, there is no virtue among tankies. If you want to move the overton window left then remove as many conservatives from office as possible, that is the only path forward.
Nice imagination you got there. Do you have more things to imagine about what my political positions are, while calling me a fucking traitor?
Some people man.
Consequences matter. Maybe you are full of leftwing virtue but no one sane or intelligent cares.
Valuing your virtue over consequences makes you a threat to everyone, including yourself. You'll sink the ship for your principles and drag everyone down with you. So yes, if it minimizes you or your group's political influence it makes sense to call you a traitor.
Its what got my country Trump. I now feel a visceral internal rage when anyone tells me "Democrats and Republicans are the same." Regardless of what their actual politics are. Because I know they did not vote, they let this shit happen so they wouldn't "dirty their hands". I hate them. I despise them.
Buddy, your political system is nothing like ours. We don't have one all-or-nothing election. We have a Westminster system, we have a multiparty democracy, we have minority governments and the capacity for coalitions. Our supreme Court justices retire, our federalism is not broken like yours and we don't have founding daddy issues that cripple us to blindly worshipping some 200 year old piece of paper.
Keep your rage your side of the border, your frame of reference does not translate to our system. Pipe down.