It’s because people are stupid and no one even shows up for elections. I went, and 60% of the province stayed home.
Conservatives are dumber than rocks and no amount of evidence will convince them that Doug Ford isn’t hugely corrupt because they’re too busy jerking him off over making it so that they don’t need to pay $120/yr to renew their plates. Centrists are just a bunch of do-nothing losers and they and the left were all grumpy because the NDP and Liberals weren’t “exciting” as if that’s important at all(I know it is, to some degree, but up against Ford a wet sock should have beaten him).
He’s not clever, he’s not hiding anything very well, and there are magic tricks being done. People just aren’t paying any attention and/or are incredibly stupid.
I asked a few friends and co-workers about the election. Most of them had no idea there was an election being held right now. The ones that did had no idea who was running besides Ford.
One even told me that our local riding only has a Conservative candidate so there’s nobody else. Our riding actually has 6 candidates. They thought there was only one candidate because they’ve only seen his campaign signs and nobody else’s.
Ontarians are truly apathetic. I think a big part of that comes from people not knowing what powers the premier has. If people realized the premier controls things like healthcare, labour standards, and public transportation they might care a bit more. Ford has done so little, and blamed the federal government for so much, that I think people assume the position is equivalent to Mayor of Toronto.
I’m sick of calling it apathy. We have the internet in our pockets, it’s just willful ignorance and stupidity.
Unless someone is a follower of politics/news there is no way to really inform people anymore.
The party candidate mail looks like junkmail and only gets one per address, so it’s very easy to miss. Many folk living in shared homes or units would have no idea.
I haven’t used fb or twitter in a few years and never touched tiktok so I have no clue how that works anymore, but by the sounds of things they aren’t the greatest for creating awareness about things that aren’t rw conspiracies.
The ONLY reason I know is because of posts in c/ontario. Not the news, not radio, not flyers, or yardsigns.
Isn’t he the one who was famous some years ago for his crack habit? Or was that some kind of meme?
That was his brother then Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford
I think Rob was the user and Doug was the dealer right? Or am I getting that mixed up?
