Joseph Lambert
3 min readMay 17, 2021

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Canada's voters have relied upon the Parti Quebecois, the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party in many provinces, including Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, dating back to the early 1970s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the working class voters began to rely heavily on the Progressive Conservative Party, which would go on to win elections beginning in the late 1990s and continuing until the 2008 financial crisis. The real success of the PC party didn't come until the second half of the 2010s, when provincial PC parties won elections in all 3 provinces. The CAQ (led by Legault) won a majority in the October 2018 provincial election in Quebec after Liberal lost their majority in the June 2018 election in Ontario to a bigger PC party (led by fascist Doug Ford). Likewise, a merger between the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and the Wildrose Party took place after Trump was elected despite losing the popular vote. The new party, called the United Conservative Party (led by Jason Kenney), won a majority in the 2019 election in Alberta, displacing Rachel Notley as premier of the province. The reason for Trumpism taking over in all three of these provinces was because of austerity measures implemented by the predecessor governments. The Canadian federal government has implemented austerity measures since Stephen Harper became prime minister in 2006 (with austerity continuing under Justin Trudeau), and the imposition of such measures resulted in an increase in poverty that began in the mid-2010s, which caused more austerity measures to be implemented that is expected to result in a bigger increase in poverty. Fascism is a result of an implementation of austerity measures that increases the poverty rate of a country's population.

In the United States, an increase of the people in poverty since the 2008 financial crisis caused the GOP to win majorities in the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, while they were able to win the 2018 Senate elections without winning the popular vote. In response to their loss in the 2020 elections, GOP state legislatures have passed laws allowing elections to be overturned if members of their party lost. Those laws are going to be used beginning in the 2022 election to allow the Democratic Party to win the popular vote and hold a majority of seats in both houses of Congress before the GOP legally overturns the results in every election that they did not win. This means that a potential 2024 election could see the Democratic candidate win 277-261 in the electoral vote in late November 2024, but would be challenged in court and the result could be overturned legally. If not, state legislatures can overturn the election and could force a contingent election in the house where the winner would be decided by whoever has the majority of state delegations (which is bound to be the GOP). A considerable amount of left-wing working class people voted for Jill Stein and Howie Hawkins in the 2016 and 2020 elections (the latter being very small) instead of Trump, and are planning to vote for the Green Party in the 2024 elections to try to stop the GOP candidate from winning the electoral vote. What needs to be done to allow the working class to vote left wing again is the implementation of ranked choice voting on a national scale. In addition, all members of the blue and red parties from around the globe must be removed and only members of true green parties will be allowed to contest in future elections.

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