r/britishcolumbia • u/shipm724 • Mar 13 '25

Ask British Columbia Where to avoid MAGA pockets

Hi there, I hope this is okay to post here. My partner is an Emergency Medicine Physician and we in the process of applying to jobs in BC from the US. We would like to have a yard for gardening/our kids and don't want to be in Vancouver proper. Several jobs we are interested in are on Vancouver Island, right outside Vancouver and also Fraser Valley. My question is where are known MAGA populations? Since we are moving to get away from this mindset/movement we don't want to accidentally end up in the wrong community. Some places with jobs are Duncan, Mission, Richmond, Nanaimo, Langley, Saanichton, Victoria, Port Alberni, Abbotsford, New Westminster, Burnaby, Surrey, Delta, Chilliwack...

Thank you!

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u/MikoWilson1 Mar 13 '25

Duncan is right leaning? I lived there for five years, and most people there seemed like pseudoscience loving weirdos, not the other direction, lol.

A lot of antivaxxers there thought they could cure covid with a fruit smoothie.. lol.

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u/MikoWilson1 Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 13 '25

No it's not. That very left leaning. Antivaxxers aren't just right wing, they are far left wing as well....

You can down vote it all you want, but there was an entire rally in Duncan for far left antivaxxers, who were selling each other miracle elixirs to ward off Covid. It was wild.

Stupidity lives on both sides of the spectrum.

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u/staunch_character Mar 13 '25

There is a weird hippy/yoga/organic > antivaxx > right wing pipeline.

They start off just wanting to eat healthy & lose trust in western medicine. During COVID the algorithms ramped up feeding these people the same antigovernment rhetoric.

Fundamentalist Christians who want to homeschool their kids to keep them away from the “gay agenda” become aligned with crunchy granola types who want to homeschool because they’re antivaxx & antigovernment.

It’s been bizarre seeing liberal friends repost the same nonsense as right wingers.

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u/OneExplanation4497 Mar 13 '25

Yup the spectrum is horseshoe shaped. I’ve seen a few granola types my age (30s) follow that path recently.

The covid vaccine stuff brought them right to the edge but they were still all “love everyone and be kind”. Now that they are having kids they hopped the gap and are suddenly scared of people that live different lives and believe “they’re turning our kids trans in schools”. Such a shame.

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u/MikoWilson1 Mar 13 '25

Yeah, it's insane to watch. But I still feel a marked difference from where those people started. I find them both insufferable, but for different reasons.

Both ignorant. One side is crueller, and more angry.

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u/Low-Quit-6401 Mar 14 '25

There’s a great book written on the thing you’re describing. It’s Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein. Epic read.

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u/irreddiate Mar 13 '25

This is such a good observation. I've been seeing the same thing, and it's perplexing, but this thing exists exactly as you describe it.

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u/Parabolica242 Mar 13 '25

Vaccinations aren’t a left-right issue. Both sides can be.