@Garossino They aren’t voting against their own interests. They believe they are voting in their interests. It’s not economic stability that’s the issue, it’s maintaining a strongman white supremacy based hierarchy.
@Garossino Many people don’t understand (nor have the base knowledge to understand) cause and effect. The factors contributing to stagnant wages, recessions and climate change are complex and difficult for anyone to understand.
@Garossino People who vote for UCP and CPC aren’t looking to improve their position in life. They’re looking for a clear target to blame and a govt that will punish those who are blamed. There doesn’t ever need to be resolution. They just need a scapegoat & to feel superior.
@Garossino I don’t know why people don’t understand this.
It has nothing to do with improving their status, income, or reducing taxes.
As long as they receive a target to focus their outrage. All is well in the world.
It has nothing to do with improving their status, income, or reducing taxes.
As long as they receive a target to focus their outrage. All is well in the world.
@Garossino The only reason they feel threatened now is their reduced numbers. They’re at the point of losing a clear majority. And it’s them who can be made the scapegoat by the majority of other Canadians.
Few, if any working class on the right question their pay or their social status.
Few, if any working class on the right question their pay or their social status.
@Garossino Their focus remains identification or BIPOC & LGBTQ, and women as the targets of their ire.
That’s what far right conservatives serve up. White dominance. Not better pay, more benefits, safer communities, more opportunity. Because they only need offer the patriarchal hierarchy.
That’s what far right conservatives serve up. White dominance. Not better pay, more benefits, safer communities, more opportunity. Because they only need offer the patriarchal hierarchy.
@Garossino As for education, the US has never offered quality education to low income working class. They treat the working class ignorant and uneducated and then maintain policy requiring the ability to comprehend complex information. Policy has never been the US political focus.
@Garossino Canadians are different. There were efforts to educate the masses. Which is why Canada is the leader in an educated workforce worldwide. Literacy is rare. Some provinces have been better than others. BC, AB, MB, ON and QC all have advanced education systems. But it’s too good.
@Garossino Go back a couple generations and most adults quit school in late elementary or early junior high. Grades 5-7 many children were required to leave school to get a job and contribute to the family income.
@Garossino That’s what conservatives are hoping to reinstall. You need maybe grade 6 literacy and numeracy as a worker. Basic reading skills, and basic math skills. Any more than that and you’re a threat to the wealth class.
@Garossino As a journalist you should know this. Newspapers are written at a grade 6 reading level because any more complex and the vast majority will not comprehend it. Critical thinking skills are not required for the working class. Their role is to follow orders, not make them.
@Garossino Many of those working class are from BIPOC communities. Recent and non Aryan immigrants and indigenous people have no use for advanced levels of education. They are meant to perform the grunt work. Those poor shores are satisfied as long as they remain at the top of their strata.
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