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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:22:14 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <tn4i5kdd44r0dvv6j000td3p3n96e93obn@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 29 May 2025 17:37:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>> You speak as if Canada has a uniform population.  I know quite a few 
>>> Canadian engineers, they are fairly conservative as a rule.
>>> 
>>Canadian and European "Conservative" are different than USA "Conservative".
>
>Which is why I regularly watch British political news shows but not US
>news shows. My daughter in England lives in one of the two British
>electoral districts has voted Green and she's fairly happy with that -
>while I'm a Canadian conservative which as you say is quite different
>from 'conservatives' in the US.
>
>In plain English that means 'extremely tough financially but willing
>to listen on social issues'

I had a Green MP. Nice guy, heck of a ground game [1]. Didn't have the
funds to keep his phone line monitored around the clock and didn't seem
to be much use as an intermediary between his constituents and the 
government but perfectly pleasant person.

1: Pretty much the only candidate whose people knocked doors in my
neighbourhood. Of course, as I was planning to work in the election
I don't interact with party members except as required by the job.

He and the Liberal MP split the not-CPC vote, so now I have a CPC MP. 
The previous election, the Liberal MP had a scandal and was dropped
by the party, too late to be removed from the ballot. 
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