@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

I learned about the Overton Window in my polisci degrees 20 years ago, before that me and my friends just talked about a pendulum or metronome on a table that goes left and right, but if you move the wholllllle pendulum to the right, what was once "left" becomes centre right, at best.

Along the way, the NDP removed "socialism" from its constitution. 🤔

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

In academic courses we also learned absolutely nothing about political parties and how they function.

It's like some secret rule that political scientists don't study parties, themselves, just on how they operate in the wild.

Parties are allllll on-the-job training, with tons of insiders, many with no political science degrees, keeping operations secrets from everyone but the loyal.

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

And while they all speak to outreach and new ideas for growth, parties are most always all conservative, in terms of how power exists, because for most, that's what matters, not making the world a better place.

So, even not-"conservative" parties operate conservatively with zero, minimal or false transparency and accountability to members. "Managed democracy."

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

#mamdani #appadurai and now quite likely #lowan are recognizing what conservatism and empire building looks like in political parties.

These conservative elements are terrified of new people and new ideas EVEN WHEN THEIR OLD IDEAS FAIL WILDLY, REPEATEDLY.

They even sometimes speak of "managed democracy" when it comes to internal operations. A euphemism, for........

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

Managed democracy is a euphemism for patronizing, condescending, elitism couched in "the people mean well but we are the pros," especially when a generational shift is happening and they are still strategizing like it's 1988 or 1996. Or even 2005, before social media.

They are terrified of, generally, younger generations.

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

They could be the photos on the wiki page for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

And they just know that when they see new people coming, signing up thousands of members who numerically will deliver a win, when the conservative insiders appeal to many tens of new members a year, they take the nuclear option.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

It gets messy.

The emperor has no clothes.

The fascist/predator/Democrat cuomo conspires with #BigHands to destroy a "fellow" Democrat. #Mamdani

The #bcndp counts numbers of new members and panics and bounces #Appadurai from the leadership race.

The #bcgreens create patently, transparently, desperately obstructionist membership rules coincidentally designed to eliminate a threat. #Lowan

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@lidsville @BCGreens @emilylowan

What next?

In this Lindsay chain above, you see reflections: parties' brands (and frankly, legitimacy) suffering, parties ignoring masses of younger voters who get socialism, so they want it.

So the conservatives, especially in "left" parties get outed as conservatives, or at best liberals, and that's nothing to write home about.

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