My maybe unpopular opinion is that a closely contested election doesn't automatically equal a deeply divided electorate. Just something to keep in mind in the days ahead

Andrew Kurjata

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@akurjata and can the electorate truly be called “deeply divided” if we don’t actually know the opinion of 43% of them?

Andrew Kurjata

@chris yeah, that's the thing. A huge chunk can't even be fussed to vote. And of those who do, I'm not sure we should assume they test their political identity as some deeply held thing that signifies irreconcilable disagreement with those who vote in other ways

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@akurjata I saw a few people on the doorstep who were simply disillusioned with everything. It wasn’t that they didn’t care, they just thought, strongly, that they didn’t want any part of it. Those ones made me the most sad.

Fifi Lamoura

@chris And this is literally part of right wing strategy, to get normies to give up on democracy and politics. @akurjata

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@fifilamoura @akurjata absolutely. And as we were reminded by our PM, Russian and other non-democratic state strategies as well.

Nick Pilon

@fifilamoura @chris @akurjata not just the normies; to get anyone who isn’t on board to give up. This is why you see targeted right wing messaging at particular marginalized groups - racialized communities, religious organizations, even queer folks - trying to persuade them to stay home and stand aside.

And it works. “I can’t support the non-right wing party; they once did something I didn’t like.”