06-03-2022, 03:12 PM
(06-03-2022, 05:40 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: While I agree with you completely the thing which terrifies me the most is that I see us moving towards the US.
It's both a thing we are doing, and also, the nefarious influences (and I don't use that word dramatically) which are pushing the US away from democracy and towards fascism are investing here as well.
I'm so frustrated that DoFo won again. The thing which kills me on this is the 413. We fought so hard to kill it under the liberals, and now it is going to go ahead anyway.
We may or may not be moving toward the US scenario. But this election is not evidence of that. We had a super clean (boring?) election campaign, we had zero issues with voting access, we counted the votes overnight, there were no disputes or recounts. And that's on top of the fact that Ford has moved substantially toward the centre from his populist origins.
I think most people here know that I'm no fan of Ford, but there is no doubt that his positions have evolved, even if he still prioritizes the suburbs (905 etc) over the city centres.