Mark Carney Canadian popularity theory
por Gigliola: Mark Carney
Canadians might be overestimating their options while fixating on headlines without checking feasibility. Ben Leavitt (iambenleavitt) argues Mark Carney's current popularity in Canada is actually a setup for the government to enforce painful policies. High approval ratings serve as a shield, giving officials an extended runway to cause public hardship before backlash hits. This dynamic relies on ongoing political factors involving Trump. A specific event like a housing market collapse could rapidly reduce Carney's standing and end that long runway. The speaker contends this strategy primes the public for economic pain so they can say I told you guys later.
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It's so fascinating as a Canadian because I think we overestimate the cards we have to play, right? Like we get very fixated on the headlines, but there's not a lot of people digging beyond them in terms of feasibility of these things. And also, it's also kind of scary because Carney's been priming us to deal with pain. And for me, it feels like they're building this guy up to make him as popular as possible to give them the longest runway to put us through pain. and then he can say i told you guys right because you you don't when you're when you're as high an approval rating as he is it's not going to jump down especially when we continue to have the enemy of trump but they've got they've got it so high that they've got a pretty long runway here in my opinion um that could change pretty dramatically if say something like the housing market were to collapse because that's really where people would stop being so liberal in my opinion but yeah he's very loved right now if you enjoyed this be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets peace
