Other than selling mediocre coffee and McMansions to each other, Canada has precious little else. That's why we cling like limpets to extractive industry: without it, we've got nothing because our governments have comprehensively failed to develop much of an industry, preferring to give tax breaks to oil barons and house traders.
The problem with the US (and Canada, and to a lesser degree the UK) is that the centrists would rather lose to the far right than legitimize actual leftism.
We’ve seen this in Canada several times, at all levels, where the Liberals would rather go down in flames in an election, knowing that they'll get another shot in a few years time, then share power with actual leftists in order to keep the right from doing more damage.
I'm really impressed with Macron. That's a level of long term holistic thinking that you don't normally see from neoliberal politicians.
This'll be interesting, because staying in power is the only way Netanyahu stays out of court, if not out of prison.
If Democrats want change, this is how to do it:
- Win general elections; vote blue no matter who. 2 Primary out the corporatist candidates every chance there is, right down to the level of school trustee.
This actually works, as we've seen with the GOP and their turn to rabid fascism. It can also work for good.
Dear media,
You're maybe two verses of Niemoller's poem from "...and there was no one to speak for me.".
Stop carrying water for this man and his sycophants, it will not end well for you, or anyone you care about.
Oh no, not the capital investment! Anything but that!
For the record, the oil industry's global profits were $4T. Not revenue, profit. $75B in investment sounds like a lot, until you realize all it means is that they'll need to dig into that $4T to fund stuff, and that $75B is less than two percent of $4T, and the actual hit to revenue and income will be even less.
They can cut back on avocado toast, as it were.
If they were members of the Panthers, I bet they'd be long gone.
Jesus only physically attacked one group of people.
Religious capitalists.
Well, maybe stop exploiting everyone for the benefit of the rich and this wont be an issue?
I mean, that's how we got the modern welfare state, and how we managed to engineer one of the most relatively tranquil, peaceful and progressive periods in human history: by ensuring everyone had enough, rather than letting a few fight for it all while most had none.
It's like the solution is staring these people in the face, but they can't--they won't--see it.
So, they feel that Israel needs "living room?"
You assume they want electoral reform at all
They don't.
They'd rather lose now and keep the system that would net them another majority of seats (without a majority of votes) in the future, then implement a system that would see them never realize another majority ever again.
The Liberals would rather lose every seat in Parliament and be reduced to zero than implement real electoral reform.
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Tomorrow's news: House prices increase.
Public housing is part of the solution. Taxing capital gains far more aggressively is part of the solution. Rezoning and infill are part of the solution. Punitative taxation on ownership of multiple single-family homes is part of the solution.
This isn't the solution, it's just kicking the can down the road. Again. Because we've decided that the rich shall never, ever take a haircut.