When a political parties views are so disgusting they turn off one of their most ardent supporters it is time to chnge your allegiance to one more moderate and less bigoted.

 

COMMENTARY: Charles Adler on why he’s no longer a conservative

People who know my mind best — those who have listened to my radio shows over three decades — all know how liberated I feel to be able to speak it publicly. They know that over the years I have been less and less comfortable wearing the conservative label.

It’s because conservatism keeps moving further and further to the right.

I stopped voting for the Conservatives in 2015 because their campaign was bogged down in issues like Muslim women wearing face coverings and the barbaric practices hotline. It was clear to me that the party had decided that there was some gold to be mined in anti-Islamic feeling that became a larger factor in politics post-9/11.

This wasn’t the conservatism I signed up for when I first voted for the Ontario provincial and federal conservatives in the ’70s after moving to Ontario from Quebec.

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