This is the main argument that pro-CPC folks have been telling me to vote for CPC instead of PPC. They say Max made the mistake of starting his own party. They argue that if he waited it out he could have been the leader of the CPC this time around. Is Trump running as a Republican a good comparison to this?
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This is Bernier's greatest weakness IMO: His inability to pick his battles. Most Canadians don't even know what supply management is, much less give a fuck about it as an election issue. Like where does "supply management" rank on important election issues according to Canadian voters? Nowhere. That's where.
But Max chooses supply management as his hill to die on because he's an ideological zombie. His formula is:
So he chooses supply management - an issue nobody gives a fuck about - as his hill to die on, and then gets all asshurt when he loses.
Even better, he got in a massive twitter feud with people over his outrage that high schools were going to give girls free tampons, and then made the headlines for it. "Why is Maxime Bernier so obsessed with tampons?". Yeah, great fucking headline. How about you never talk about teenage girls' tampons again for as long as you live, Max. Let's try that as a PR strategy going forward FFS.
So like I said, he just doesn't know how to pick his battles. It's his biggest flaw. I mean that's fine if you just want to be a novelty, fringe independent backbencher, but not if you want to win elections and lead the country by consensus.
"But you have to stand up for what you believe in!" his zealots will say. Not if you want people to vote for you you don't. That's a child's understanding of how to navigate politics. If you actually want to accomplish anything beyond being the subject of mocking healdines, you need to have some self-awareness and understand what you sound like to other people - the people you're trying to persuade. Screeching about girls' tampons, right as you may be from a philosophical or economic standpoint, is an idiotic move. Full stop. A competent leader and politician knows how to not do stupid shit like that. Even if your "ideology" commands you to take those hard-line positions.
As much as ideological zealots don't want to hear it, the only way you can win elections is by compromising, by moderating your positions to keep up with the will of the electorate, by negotiating with swing voters for their support. It's like this by design. That's how democracy is supposed to work. That's why real parties have leadership elections: So the party can change its stance on issues to keep up with the times. That's how the major parties remain major parties: By constantly moderating to keep up with the will of the electorate. If you want to be an uncompromising, hardline fringe that never changes and keeps the same leader as a lifetime ruler, then get used to living in the political wilderness.
Disagree because supply management was the root of the corruption in both parties. It's fucking crony socialism and exposes small towns to being hollowed out by globalization because people can't start their own businesses that supply the region. He was absolutely right, but that's never enough.
You win elections by leading. This "compromise," thing is for cucks and bottoms.
Even Trudeau had a following. Solving the problem of how do we get the liberals out of office and how do we make Max PM are not the same problem right now. He's still young'ish, and the real Trump play would be to ratchet up his popular support over a decade or more. What conservatives need in Canada is culture, not politics. Alberta has culture, the prairies have culture, you just don't hear about it because the CBC is being run by Soros. The media is just a zombie corpse animated by liberal money and senile boomers.
Look at what the left did to the millennials from a young age only 15-20 years ago. It indoctrinated them and now they are the diversity police that keep the liberals in power. The future is making kids understand that they were sold out by communists, and all they have to look forward to is a life of slavery under shithole regimes if they don't build new networks to isolate these fucks.
Is that why Bernier won 1.6% of the popular vote? LOL
Dude, we saw who your guy lost to. This isn't your fight.
Exactly. That move has no other purpose than to try and generate donations.
Yeah, and being hard-line is for winners like the PPC.
ROFL
And uh, where did your "values" get you in the last election? Who's the real "loser" here? The party that won the popular vote? Or the one that got 1.6% of the vote and zero seats? You're in no position to be caling anyone a "loser" here.
This is the proper analogy: https://i.imgur.com/zfzOmIR.png