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Rant/

Like many here, I’m a proud New Democrat and I’m active in my EDA. For all my life, I’ve had friends of different political stripes and I’ve always been proud of the fact that I could have constructive discussions with people I disagree with politically without it getting personal. Lately however, I’ve been having a harder time with it.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve become more entrenched in my own views but I’ve found it harder and harder to deal with centrist/Liberal friends in particular… We’ll have conversations about politics and we seem to agree on many issues but for some reason they are completely repelled by the thought of supporting the NDP vs the Liberals.

I find the hypocrisy exhausting. Like ok so you want to do something about climate change, you don’t like conservatives and generally want a fairer society…Yet you would rather put your support behind Mr. Red Tory Central Banker than even consider what Avi Lewis has to say?

There’s also this underlying superiority I feel from centrist friends where they act like they’re the “rational” ones and they see the world for what it is, whereas I, in comparison, am just a silly little leftist who has unrealistic expectations of what can/cannot be done politically.

Anyways, I don’t want to damage relationships with people I genuinely care for and I also don’t want to only surround myself with people who think exactly the way I do, but I’m finding it harder and harder to find a balance without becoming incredibly frustrated.

Do others feel like this? How do you compartmentalize?

With Steven Guilbault leaving politics, his seat will be up for grabs. Do we think Nimâ Machouf will make another attempt at winning the seat in Laurier-Sainte-Marie? I think she has a real shot as it is a historically progressive riding! We’ll need all hands on deck!