How a Unified Left Will ALWAYS Beat a Fractured Alberta Independence Movement
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at the recent events at the Aberdeen Next Panel and discuss the current state of politics in Scotland and the implications for the future of the independence movement. We also discuss the role of the media and its role in the current political landscape and the role it plays in shaping the debate.
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it's a perfect topic to disunite conservatives and liberals almost won't even consider it like
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we saw at the at the alberta next panel you know you got people there who are they are not they do
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not care to listen to the to the opposing to the opposing viewpoint of course you have people on
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the right who are the same way and they'll never you know they'll never consider any anything other
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anything short of like pure drill baby drill type you know conservatism right and fair enough to both
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of them like the that's fine but what is the ratio of that right now like are there if you have you
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have a left side of the aisle that is unified against something and then you have a right side
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of the aisle that there's some debate on you well you're always gonna lose because you're because
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you're always gonna the amount that you lose to the people who are unsure on the right will always be
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overcome by the unity on the left right that's that is a problem that we see in um basically any sort
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of you know conservative or libertarian politics right now yeah and sometimes it doesn't take much
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for those on the left to be unified over single issues yeah and this is where god bless them it's
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what they're best at right yeah and when jeff rath was describing that well the diehard leftists
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they'll never be convinced but the line that that blurs into the more moderate it's hard to know
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how much of the moderate on the left also get captured by some of those ideas and that will
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be rigid on that um and that's where people need to stress test these ideas and and that kind of
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circles back to with the alberta next panel i think there it is a proxy in a way like the reactions to this
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is going to be a proxy and it's kind of giving us a glimpse into what some of the reaction will be
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as the independence movement grows because these issues are going to come up let it be pension
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let it be equalization let it be immigration um and the emotion behind each of these issues
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means we're we're not up against simply just a number of like here's the fact about this issue
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oh yep you great you change your mind because you got the right fact like that doesn't really happen
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no there's counterfactuals to everything and you can find an expert on any side of an issue
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i think what we saw is not even the counterfactual is like the emotion and then the fact that grounds the
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emotion and making them seem like the the morally and factually correct thing um mate let's call them
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conversational landmines that if you start navigating these discussions you will eventually come across
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these things that maybe they're not they're not the most rational because they've been you have years
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of messaging loading a certain idea and creating this kind of powder keg