• SCB@lemmy.world
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    Lmao my town is in an uproar because there is no bussing for the high school, but my town literally voted to disincorporate (and won!) rather than pay a double-digit yearly increase on their taxes… to pay for bussing.

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      More and more it seems like people just don’t want to help pay for services that are extremely helpful. Yet when those services are removed, they get all uppity about it. It’s just like brexit. Stupidity on a massive scale.

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        Because it’s extremely easy to convince people to make conservative decisions, but they have to actually be paying some level of conscious attention to get behind progressive ideas.

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          people really hate being warned about the consequences of their actions.

          “you can do whatever you want, and we’ll tell you it’ll be ok” will never not win votes.

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          Not just sometimes. That’s the norm. It’s why we decided to fund stuff with public money in the first place: it’s cheaper than not doing it.

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        It’s the result of deliberate dumbing down of the voters. Can’t have the plebs actually voting for their interests.

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        They don’t want to pay for programs they don’t benefit from and even those they only want to hamper enough that they get theirs but no one else does.

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    As someone who lives in red deer, yup, sounds about right.

    My fellow Red Deerians are political illiterates. My one friend works in admin for schools here. Or at least, she used to, but she lost her job after the party she furiously badgered everyone to vote for got in and cut the funding at her school, targeting administrators. Which they ran on.

    It was the most Red Deer thing I ever saw.

    • ViewSonik@lemmy.world
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      This sounds like almost all red counties across America. Politically illiterate and full of bandwagon republicans who don’t understand they’re voting to hurt themselves and their livelihoods.

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      Apologies my ignorance, I am not from Canada. What do you guys have?

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        NDP and Liberal parties, which are politically very similar to each other. Closest analogue to them is the US Democrat party but the Democrats in the US are more neolib than either Canadian leftist party - although Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they’ll get there lol.

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          Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they’ll get there lol.

          We let Murika test the shit for 5 years then follow suit even though you can clearly see it don’t work

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            Please don’t burst my illusion that when Ummurika goes full Handmaid’s Tale, I can flee to Canada (I won’t bring guns or American politics with me).

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              What makes you think we want you here if you’re not willing now.

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                Um, what? I am willing now, you salty dog. I’m not ready now. Big difference. :) ex wife and a kid does not equal portability at the moment. What got in your craw, friend?

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    Well yeah, I mean, they had probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money. Now they have to waste it on their kids.

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    They also need to cut tax.

    If you’re paying school fees then you should make up for it by paying less in taxes.