Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
bootlegga bootlegga:
uwish uwish:
He was always a liberal in a blue suit, that's why he lost the leadership bid.
That's the reason why the Conservatives are probably going to be in the Opposition for a long time - anyone who isn't far right is a 'liberal'.
The problem with this stance is that millenials and even some Gen Z - the vast majority of whom are left of centre or moderate - are voting now and are going to reduce the hold on politics Boomers have had for a couple decades.
Scheer thought he could use a far right platform to win an election, and he couldn't even get a minority when Trudeau was dealing with the scandals and blackface - odds are O'Toole isn't going to do any better going forward.
If Scheers far right policies didn't get him elected why did Trudeau's far left policies succeed?
Given recent history it seems to me that, the Millennial's and Gen Z'ers are far more likely to be adherents of the far left rather than middle of the road voters. So, it's highly unlikely they'd ever vote for a Conservatives no matter what the party policies were because even middle of the road Conservatives would be diametrically opposed to their political biases.
That's pretty much what he wrote.
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Everyone in the center is a "Liberal" to the CPC, so Millenials and GenXers are not going to vote CPC because they lean centrist.
And like Tricks wrote, they also lean Socially Liberal, which the CPC does not. And it is leaning more socially conservative with every new leader. Just look at the lack of uproar when Leslyn Lewis threatened to re-open the abortion debate.