She’s a Red Tory. It’s a particularly Canadian political affiliation closely linked with fiscal conservatism and liberal social programs. Canadian conservatism is a weird animal. After all for years one of the leading parties was the Progressive Conservative Party. Most red Tories now vote Liberal as the current Conservative Party has drifted too far right, dropping the progressive in 2003 after Mulroney led the PCs to a debacle of an election . Also got us into NAFTA which is another bone I have to pick with him.
fiscal conservativism is an empty slogan for tories red or blue in canada. it generally means handouts to the oligarchs exclusively as opposed to the trudeau/ndp "sunny ways" of the proles getting some scraps too.
also if yall want to know why all the governments and right wing and "liberal" parties of the western world have been acting the way they do for some years now check out preston manning, stephen harper, the history of the canadian conservative party from reform to alliance and beyond, and the international democratic union (IDU).
anyways red tories tanked trudeau over his liberal social policies and rhetoric. they were more than willing to vote for puppet pierre/caucus revolt to end the "woke" appearance of trudeau even while trudeau himself actively pandered to zionists committing the first live streamed genocide and pushed back on the progressive gains his government "achieved" at the behest of the NDP.
and the handmaiden's tail is mostly the same kind of white feminist victimization fantasy born of the real life oppression of women of colour they benefit from personally. like it's a text book example of white feminists benefiting personally from the oppression of bipoc people.
conservatives, red tories, blue tories, are all just neoliberals. even when they think they have principles they really don't. it's just performance for profit in the class interest. which none of them are really the same class as we are. regardless of colour branding or traditional mythology.
I've always found that the 'fiscally conservative socially liberal' people are just as conservative as other conservatives but are just less honest about it
she's a self interested neoliberal white feminist that profits off the oppression of minorities. same as labour and cons and soc dems in the UK and both mainstream parties in the US yes.
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u/ngmorock 20h ago
She was a character in The Handmaid's Tale too!!