World Politics and Elections 2025

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British Columbia now has three populist right-wing parties in the legislature after MLAs pushed out of the official opposition formed their own parties (John Rustad's Conservatives, One BC, and Centre BC) and five parties in the legislature in all (with the NDP and the Greens).

Two MLAs in Alberta are trying to reestablish the Progressive Conservative Party because the governing United Conservative Party has a leader with a brain fried on right-wing podcasts.

I find it deeply shameful how Americans look at the corruption and downright evil of their two established parties, and the fecklessness and folly of the two minor parties, and say "welp, I guess there is nothing we can do" and not create a new party like adults. There are structural obstacles, but the USA went from about 30% of the adult population allowed to vote to 90% in 50 years (numbers are wild-ass guesses but see eg. Wikipedia). Women and Black Americans and Asian-Amercans and Native Americans all had to overcome massive obstacles to get the vote.

The new Liberal PM of Canada is a gullible authoritarian who says whatever he thinks will get him elected but people who read his book saw signs of the former.

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BC Conservative leader John Rustad has accused some of the breakaway MLAs of trying to blackmail their former colleagues https://vancouversun.com/news/john-rusted-bc-conservative-mla-blackmail-accusations  He then walked back the exact accusation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rustad-blackmail-claim-opposition-caucus-1.7571750