With a provincial election that left the BC NDP in government by a small margin, there’s no doubt that 2024 signalled a clear shift to the far-right with the expressed support of extreme candidates with extreme positions.
It’s disheartening to see these folks with extremist views and conspiratorial beliefs make it into government. I can understand some people being frustrated with the NDP government, but to vote this extremist seems like a knee-jerk overreaction. Honestly, we need proportional representation to avoid this kind of polarization before it results in even more extremist folks making it into office.
It isn’t a hard shift to the right - those voters were just effectively disenfranchised by Christie Clark pushing BC Cons out of the realm of possibility by being so far right. They’re the absolutely brain dead idiots that refused to vote for Clark because “She’s uh libruhl” while she ran an extremely right wing political agenda.
The actual incomprehensible event was that she was ever able to capture that position in the first place. It was before my time but I’m amazed she ever managed to capture BC Liberal voters with her far right platform in the first place.
BTW, when I say BC Cons voters are absolutely brain dead I mean it. The huge number of voters that suddenly appeared are super low information party loyal folks.
Media makes a mess too. A friend immigrated here, got citizenship, now votes for candidates tough on immigration… “Because immigrants are the problem.” Per media/YouTube algorithms.
