Kanadas Klassenunterschiede in der Wahlurne wächst
https://theconversation.com/canadas-class-divide-at-the-ballot-box-is-growing-263504
Kanadas Klassenunterschiede in der Wahlurne wächst
https://theconversation.com/canadas-class-divide-at-the-ballot-box-is-growing-263504
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I’m sorry but a discussion on „classes“ in the 21st century as a separate variable from income and/or education is absurd.
The article shows three different graphs showing a) by income and b) by education and c) by class.
It’s all related to income and education. „Class“ is not a thing anymore in Canada. What are classes supposed to represent? „Working class“, „Middle class“ and „Upper class“ if they are not directly related to income and/or education??? Yes, in the past, you had a „working class“ and the „upper class“ because one had to work and the other didn’t but that doesn’t exist anymore.
The difference now is based on income first and foremost and secondary on education, especially since a welder in a mine (manual labour) can make a 6-figure salary while a substitute or new teacher in a primary school (more intellectual labour) could have a hard time and have enough to eat.
So my takeaway from this is that the efforts of the very well to do to blunt or weaken the political interests of the poorly off are successful.
Don’t be played people. Vote and vote for your actual interests, not book bans and ostracizing LGBT people.
There are very clever people paid a lot of money to ensure that you and your interests aren’t heard. Speak up and vote.
The really disturbing (horrifying really) thing is that rather than younger people moving toward the NDP and/or demanding leftwing policies that contribute to helping level the playing field, which is the rational course of action (strategic voting notwithstanding), a lot of them seem to be diving down the far-right rabbit hole just like in America, which makes absolutely no rational sense. It scares the hell out of me to contemplate the potential future path of this country.
The trend that bothers me most in politics is people are not voting in their own self interest. My father was a perfect example of this. He voted conservative in every election even when I compared platforms and could clearly show him why voting for a different party would benefit him directly if enough people did the same. He was singularly obsessed with the party which promised to reduce the deficit even when they didn’t actually reduce the deficit when elected.
I don’t know if it’s a critical thinking issue, or tradition or the personality of the leader but something is wrong with politics and we need to figure it out.