Thread by @youseepeeYYC

Doug Ford should give a huge thank-you to the @OntLiberal party for helping to ensure this victory for his second majority tonight.

@StevenDelDuca campaigned hard against the @OntarioNDP right to the very end.

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https://twitter.com/cbcqueenspark/status/1531994454244175872

I had a hunch that this was going on when I saw all the calls for strategic voting—which often just confuses progressively minded voters.

Small-C, conservative-lite, Liberals, will nver solve the problems created by big-C Conservatives.

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1532112568071774208

Consider: of those who thought Ford was a great/good/OK premier, 13%/10%/33% of respondents were Liberal voters.

h/t to @christoaivalis.

https://twitter.com/davidcoletto/status/1532106538873241600

And based on the early results of my poll from today, progressives have a ton of work to do to educate people about what “progressive” means.

To me “progressive” == working to reduce inequality.

Regressive/Conservative == working to increase inequality.

📊👇

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1532382670549680128

Conservative-owned (or directed) media will have played a huge roll in controlling the conversation regarding politics.

@TorontoStar, @CTVNews, @globalnews, @PostmediaNews, @CP24, @City_tv (CityNews), are all owned by Conservatives.

Collectively, they get to dictate issues.👇

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1319523415649255427

Let’s remember that Ford killed THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE with his policies. Why wasn’t this front and centre in major news outlets? It didn’t serve the media oligarchs who own the media.

(Seriously: not enough people are reading @MoriartyLab & @NoLore.)

readpassage.com/doug-ford-is-a…

The fact is that capitalist-owned media is going to ensure that only issues that support the expansion of capitalism, and the accumulation of wealth by the wealthy, will really be on the table and discussed.

That manufacturing of consent is how Conservatives stay in power.

I want to say “progressives have to work hard between elections to network/build community” etc.

But where? Protests and NDP constituency offices?

It’s clear that progressives have few places to meet up and organize in this capitalist-owned neoliberal hellscape. 😩

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1529899061662232578

Anyway, here’s the link to CBC’s vote tracker if you want more up-to-date numbers than the screen shot I opened with.

Best of luck, #Ontario. My condolences.

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