That was an interesting article:
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But Americans love to argue, and much of what they yell at each other is crazy talk. Nothing in the health-care bill would encourage euthanasia, and Mr. Boehner knows it. But in American politics, it's fair game to just flat out lie. This can lead to scenes like the one in South Carolina, where an angry voter warned Congressman Bob Inglis at a town hall to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” Mr. Inglis, according to The New York Times, tried to explain that Medicare actually is run by the government, but the voter “was having none of it.”
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...but I dont think we 'just dont care'. I agree that its mainly because the problems in our society are not as deep as they are in the US. Our media also doesnt have those talking heads on 24/7 that get into screaming matches with pundits and fringe groups. We have major issues to deal with, but they just are not on the same scope.
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Could it be that there is not as much difference between our liberals and conservatives, as there is between the democrats and republicans?
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That could be because all political leaders know that Canada's political system and landscape as it is today, will only allow governments to form from the center. If you want to be PM, you must hold the image of being centrist.
The Liberals took a shift to the left, and they suffered their second worst defeat ever. The big C conservatives joined with the PC's and thus moved toward the center, and they formed the government.