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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
So you're saying standing up for biggots is courageous? I mean I guess in a sick way it kind of is. But standing up for repression to me is not courageous. I appreciate her "libertarianism" (worst term in politics FYI), but she's not decrying hate speech. Thats cowardly to me. If we don't stand up to hate speech, it will only perpetuate.
And screaming about a hidden agenda from the others is designed for one purpose: To stoke fear in your party members. "See, those liberals hate us conservatives! Lets show them!". And the Wildrose ads I've seen for senate are so hilariously awful. They don't actually all advertise the senate candidate, most just say "Vote Wildrose for Seneate and send the PCs a message". Now thats not fear mongering, but its attempting to appeal to people's emotions, which is just as bad. Politics should involved logic and rationality, not emotion. How many good decisions are made in life on emotion?
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Sometimes voting means picking the least objectionable candidate. I don't think disliking all parties is a good reason to avoid voting altogether. If you don't like the parties you should consider voting for an individual candidate in your riding. You have found that some candidates have ideas that don't line up perfectly with the parties and it stands to reason that that would go both ways. Perhaps one of the candidates in your riding will do a much better job representing your riding than the others so you should vote that way.
It saddens me a bit to know that someone who cares enough about politics to join a message board and post 15-20 times a day in a politics thread can't be bothered to vote. Voter turnout in Alberta is already terrible, don't make it worse.