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Originally Posted by SebC
A brief introduction to game theory.
I posit that Alberta's relationship with the Liberal party is a prisoner's dilemma (assuming most Albertans would like to be pandered to, but inherently dislike voting Liberal).
For the Liberals:
If they ignore us and we vote for them, great.
If they pander to us and we vote for them, good.
If they ignore us and we don't vote for them, okay.
If they pander to us and we don't vote for them, bad.
Whether or not we vote for them, their best strategy is to ignore us.
For Albertans:
If we don't vote for them and they pander to us, great.
If we vote for them and they pander to us, good.
If we don't vote for them and they ignore us, okay.
If we vote for them and they ignore us, bad.
Whether or not they pander to us, our best strategy is to not vote for them.
Yet, mutual co-operation yields better results for both Albertans and the Liberals than going with the "best strategy" - which leads to mutual relation. Such is the nature of a prisoner's dilemma.
Now, because this happens over multiple elections, our prisoner's dilemma becomes an interated prisoner's dilemma. You know what the best strategy for iterated prisoner's dilemma is? Tit-for-tat with forgiveness, precisely because it allows you do become unstuck from mutual retaliation whereas a both parties employing a pure tit-for-tat strategy does not.
Either Albertans or the Liberals could extend the first olive branch, but if we want our vote to start mattering to the Liberals (and by extension, to matter more to the Conservatives), the only way we can start a mutually beneficial relationship with them is to start voting for them whether they deserve it or not. Having them start the process by "forgiving" us is not something that's within our control.
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Wow.
Again you are saying it is up to Albertans to give in to Liberal ideas and platforms that ultimately will cause harm to the people in the province, not for the Liberals to appeal in some way to Albertans. Thats assinine since one party is easier to change and
compromise than it is to change the mind of millions of Albertans.
The forgiving part is ludicrous as well...Trudeau started this thing when he literally cost 10's of thousands of Albertans their jobs and homes. No one is going to forgive someone else for destroying their lives, its both impractical and far too much to ask. Alberta owes the Liberal party of Canada exactly...nothing. It's much much more the other way around.
Funny that the analogy is that the Liberals intend to keep Alberta prisoners however...because that's about what it is.