DC Al Fine
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« Reply #25 on: October 28, 2019, 09:18:58 AM » |
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Not any one single event but...
Over the past several years I've been offput by the reaction to a string of policies that can only be described as socialism for the rich, culminating in Prime Minister's Trudeau's promise to subsidize the purchase of $750,000 homes in the recent election campaign.
I take the criticism of conservatives and Evangelicals not being concerned enough for the poor very seriously, so to see my upscale leftish acquaintances who had previously complained about the right being for "the rich" applaud free university for doctors' kids and state funded down payments on expensive homes left a bad taste in my mouth.
No major policy shifts, but it's left me a lot more cynical, more likely to assume bad faith on the upscale left's part, and far more likely to assume new programs that aren't "give poor people a bigger cheque", to be self-congratulatory upper middle class cash grabs.
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