No, this is a failure on that front. The Conservatives should be a non-factor now, but they're disturbingly close. This is a tight election that has kind of crushed the left-ish party.

The country is deeply polarized, and it's entirely the fault of billionaires and their media companies

We may not have Fox News, but we have lots of right news media (Post Media, The Globe and Mail, Stephen Crowder). The Conservatives have also been running ads for over a year attacking Trudeau, something that is blatantly against Canadian election laws, but clearly they found some sort of loophole, and these are more than likely being funded by conservative groups from down south or overseas.

For any Canadians that don't know, this is what Harper (our former conservative PM) is up to now.

What's that in rubles?

To be clear, Poilievre has not received 5 million votes, the Conservative party has. And in fact, as of writing this comment, Poilievre is losing in his riding.

It looks like his riding is still closer than I would like with him trailing by only ~3%

Minority liberal governments are more progressive so I’m all for it. Let the fuckheads revel in it.

That is a bold statement. Do you personally see what the motivations of all five million voters are?

I'm sure not all conservative voters voted for peter rabbithair because they like trump. Some people just want change and are not aware or do not care about the political reality we face.

How do you sway these voters if you denigrate them? If this minority government falls in a few months, then what?

We need to explain why voting a certain way is detrimental to democracy in Canada, not put down because of how someone voted.

over 30% of people somehow still voted conservative.

It's similar numbers for determined trump supporters. 30-40% of people just seem to enjoy the idea of living under a punishing overload. Maybe it makes them feel safe, or they think of themselves as superior so presume they'll end up on top. Probably a lot of other drivers as well - poverty and uncertainty seem to play a role.

I tend to think of this more as a flaw we possess as an organism, something we need social institutions to counteract, rather than as the personal failing of one in every two or three people.

I always get nervous when people call other people stupid because they don't act like them.

All opinions are political

Our last government was a minority and made it the full 4 years

Liberals only need 4 seats for a majority. They can work with the NPD or Bloc to achieve what they want.

It just means they dont have free reign to do whatever the fuck they want.

~30% of the people seem to be the mark for “will actively vote for fascism to destroy the country because of my prejudice and hatreds.”

It was 32% for us in the US.

It was 33% for Hitler and the Nazis in ‘32.