• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 day ago

    But governments themselves don’t exist in a vacuum either. They represent of the interests of their backers, and our current government represents the rich capital owning class that funds it. Hence why our government lets the market decide things instead of intervening with actual solutions like creating crown corporations that it would control directly.

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      I think everyone needs to cut this guy a bit of slack. You’ve got a rockstar level of intelligence in a leader, a non-career politician, someone who’s actually gained knowledge, worked for a living, etc etc., trying to guide a country through two major major fronts, one being a grifter career populist politician trying to gain power at whatever costs. The other front is trying to protect us from and guide us through interactions with a completely deranged and unhinged lunatic, surrounded by a real who’s-who of the worlds greatest supervillains, who happens to be our biggest trading partner.

      Housing is an important domestic policy, don’t get me wrong. Yes it’s been ignored, abused by capitalism, whatever else, no arguments here. But right now existence and basically sovereignty>primary economic existence>basically everything else.

      The roles these people are fulfilling currently, are probably some of the most thankless roles in existence, on the planet, right now. That they literally cannot win at.

      For that, they have my support, through this current moment. Everything else, as terrible as it is and as much as that sucks, pretty much has to go on the backburner. I’m not even really a Liberal guy usually. I’ve voted for all three at some point, for the record (Cons, Libs, and yes even once for the NDP).