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Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

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[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The funny thing is that a lot of Conservatives think that the profit motive + free market efficiencies will reduce costs, and that public systems are full of lazy incompetents who are wasting taxpayer dollars.

And... They're not entirely wrong, either. And I say this as an educated NDP voter. They're mostly wrong, because of many factors that mostly boil down to 1%ers building laws and systems to further concentrate wealth. And that wealth they're hoarding is from profit motive leading to lower costs and the free market increasing efficiency... And also from profit motive leading to higher prices and that most of the reduced costs aren't efficiencies, they're cutting corners to deliver inferior services.

But their world view:

  • Makes sense
  • Is simple
  • It's internally consistent and coherent
  • It's supported by lots of research (mostly in theoretical economics, mind you...)
  • Blames "others"/outsiders for their problems
  • Etc. etc. etc.

There's a reason uneducated, young, white, male voters are flocking to the Cons. The Left's answers are, by comparison, complicated and messy, with lots of grey area, and involve significant change to systems that have perpetuated white make privilege. So, even though uneducated white males would be far better off in a progressive world, it's much harder to convince them.