Social Progressives Are Becoming The New Social Conservatives
The growing divide between democratic socialists and the intersectional flock has created a strange era.
For a while now, there has been a divide between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives. In recent years, that divide has become more apparent. At the same time though, a much newer and quicker forming divide (because that’s the nature of progressivism, change) between social and fiscal progressives. A lot of people who enjoy big government social safety nets and programs are turning sour to the new intersectional movement within their ranks. This, I think, is because even though their high level of empathy means they value the collective over the individual, they still have a strong belief that social hierarchies are bad when they defy science an evolution.
This split in both sides of the political spectrum has made allies out of a lot of people in between these two ideologies combating over the control of the social hierarchy. Many who are libertarian or socialist simply do not care for creating social hierarchies at all, although they believe what is the best way to lessen the effects on the people at the lowest end of the natural hierarchies that form in human beings. It has brought a lot of like minded people who have decided that they would rather put aside their differences to fight all the toxic social dogma. The only problem is, these people have no party to rally behind. This is where you get a growing number of people calling themselves politically homeless.
Unfortunately, although O’Toole is trying to fill this gap, he is trying to do it without sacrificing his base. He is taking a stand through his votes in the house, but not vocally chastising his members who still vote socially conservative. There is actually a centrist party in Canada as well, but they are a new party and so far I have heard nothing out of them, I have only stumbled across them in my research of obscure political parties. They could be a possible solution as well, they actually have a platform to please quite a lot of pragmatic people, but I think we really need to think outside the box to try and find a way out of this binary thinking we’re in, where real solutions are ignored for platitudes about change and division.