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[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

If everyone sets down reddit and Facebook for a minute, and quiets the screaming chaos that are those things, you'd quickly realize that the vast majority of Canadians are smack dab in the mushy middle that such a leader slots nicely into. Not the one screaming one-liner insults and plays on people's names, and certainly not the one that only really cares about Quebec.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm very much talking to real people. The conversations I'm having were unimaginable just 2-3 years ago. My own views have changed a lot. A shift's happening. Very likely not evenly distributed but there was no talk about socialist policy where I am either until recently. According to my conversations people just see everyday problems not getting solved or getting worse for a very long time and they lose faith in the solutions offered so far. For example my immediate real social network is around 10 people. We've been discussing the free market's pros and cons for decades. These days all but one thinks the free market can deliver prosperity for them. Everyone else has lost faith in the model.

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