was talking on Discord about this but i really do think the issue with BC Cons deciding to go all in on a culture war candidate is that i have my doubts whether the Green numbers remain that high when e.g. Caroline is essentially pushing for UK style turns on LGBT rights
![[t]hus the French bourgeoisie was compelled by its class position to annihilate, on the one hand, the vital conditions of all parliamentary power,
and therefore, likewise, of its own, and to render irresistible, on the other
hand, the executive power hostile to it … [and] by now stigmatising as
‘socialistic’ what it had previously extolled as ‘liberal,’ the bourgeoisie confesses that its own interests dictate that it should be delivered from the danger of its own rule; that, in order to restore tranquillity in the country, its bourgeois parliament must, first of all, be laid to rest; that, in order to preserve its social power intact, its political power must be broken.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bahxubaupcjrpvao3sikdqu4/bafkreicygla3nqwi4p3el2r2xfgc77ecbce4ap3iexcbwefe3wrrtapog4)
