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Originally Posted by logicbomb
Any NDP supporter cannot deny the obvious class warfare taking place. All these wealth taxes are seriously pissing off most BCers who a) stand to inherit wealth b) are wealthy and c) are planning to move and retire banking off their home equity.
The days of BC being a blue collar/working class province are long gone. The fact that the Liberals have a strong solid base attests to this. The NDP have to modernize if they ever want to govern again. No more socialist wealth redistribution tactics. New immigrants from Asia hate anything that resembles socialism/communism ...
Always remember this. The NDP never won the 2017 election. 30 or so votes made the difference. This all DESPITE the fact that many Lib supporters didnt vote or did a protest vote because of their hatred towards Christy Clark.
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Correct although you missed that most immigrants move to Canada to get away from left wing socialist nations. Not just Asians but South Americans, Africans, and Eastern Europeans. Most socialist/communist nations are not places Canadians would enjoy.
There is huge wealth redistribution being done by the NDP and technically the bottom is bigger than the top they are taking from. However, they are beginning to take from the middle as well while still only giving to the bottom. In addition, most people don't bother to go out and vote but they will once there's a new tax on them.
They basically pissed off the whole construction, real estate, and other industries by hurting the real estate market and appealing to the 15% of union workers while ignoring the 85% of private workers. These groups make up a large portion of the population.
If the NDP was smart they would have sent out those promised rental subsidy cheques as that would have won them a ton of encouragement for people to actually go out and vote. They made this a renter versus homeowner issue and thats hurt them because they've done little for renters while pissing off homeowners.
The NDP has some smart people, but I feel like there's also a lot of loons who are dragging the party down because they don't recognize reality. I think we don't see it but there must be a ton of infighting over policies.
I hope if they win this they take the hint and get their act together for the next 3 years. I'm not against what they want but I am against how they are going about it.
And if they lose in a place that's been a NDP stronghold, then yes their screwed.
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