The "modern" Tories/Republicans do have their share of token minorities nowadays, but there's a joke that says their "diversity outreach" is limited to Black/Brown homophobes and Gay racists. They're only bound together by what they hate. (#1 on that list being taxes.)
The mere fact that so-called moderate conservatives are content to allow this festering rot to continue, for the off chance of winning a government and "addressing the deficit," is what causes liberals to paint all conservatives with a broad brush. Furthermore, the mere fact that there are so-called progressives (Bernie/Squad/NDP) with such a myopic view of economics "trumping" so-called "identity politics" as a secondary distraction from "eating the rich," and that the "uniparty" has no measurable differences between them (a ludicrous notion that Althia Raj spit out on Twitter the other day) is what causes liberals to accuse those on the ostensible left of aiding and abetting cons with gaslighting and obfuscation. There is more to life than being angry at capitalists. Capitalism did not make conservatives push for a "barbaric practices hotline".
Conservatism the world over is an utterly bankrupt ideology having more in common with its forebears in 1930s Europe than anything "principled" or "respectable" from statesmen such as Diefenbaker or Gen. Eisenhower. Its messaging has devolved into juvenile shitposting and Orwellian repetition of "alternative facts." O'Toole is a cipher. He merely adopts whatever he feels is convenient for his own advancement; otherwise, he almost doesn't matter. The fact is the standard bearers for conservatism in the 2020s are Extremely Online shitlords, Tucker Carlson's fan club, and Bond-villain oligarchs and strongmen who Harper is courting with his actual honest-to-god SPECTRE LARP organization. Its entire global apparatus needs to be tossed in the trash.
The "modern" Tories/Republicans do have their share of token minorities nowadays, but there's a joke that says their "diversity outreach" is limited to Black/Brown homophobes and Gay racists. They're only bound together by what they hate. (#1 on that list being taxes.)
The mere fact that so-called moderate conservatives are content to allow this festering rot to continue, for the off chance of winning a government and "addressing the deficit," is what causes liberals to paint all conservatives with a broad brush. Furthermore, the mere fact that there are so-called progressives (Bernie/Squad/NDP) with such a myopic view of economics "trumping" so-called "identity politics" as a secondary distraction from "eating the rich," and that the "uniparty" has no measurable differences between them (a ludicrous notion that Althia Raj spit out on Twitter the other day) is what causes liberals to accuse those on the ostensible left of aiding and abetting cons with gaslighting and obfuscation. There is more to life than being angry at capitalists. Capitalism did not make conservatives push for a "barbaric practices hotline".
Conservatism the world over is an utterly bankrupt ideology having more in common with its forebears in 1930s Europe than anything "principled" or "respectable" from statesmen such as Diefenbaker or Gen. Eisenhower. Its messaging has devolved into juvenile shitposting and Orwellian repetition of "alternative facts." O'Toole is a cipher. He merely adopts whatever he feels is convenient for his own advancement; otherwise, he almost doesn't matter. The fact is the standard bearers for conservatism in the 2020s are Extremely Online shitlords, Tucker Carlson's fan club, and Bond-villain oligarchs and strongmen who Harper is courting with his actual honest-to-god SPECTRE LARP organization. Its entire global apparatus needs to be tossed in the trash.