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Originally Posted by Dion
The goal is to get voters to vote for the PC party. They think invoking fear is the best way to garner votes. Tell me what you're going to do and not what the other guy might do.
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If I'm choosing between to canadidates, what the other guy might do is important information for me to make a good decision. I lean the other way from you. I think if there was more calling other people out on their BS, there would be less BS, and that would be better for everyone.
For example, imagine a promise to keep infrastructure spending below Canada's average. Sounds good on the surface, but the implications are terrible (way below average infrastructure development). I don't have faith that voters will figure that out unless the other parties and/or media point it out to them. If they don't point it out, I see that as not doing their job. Ideas should be challenged, not coddled. (So that natural selection can kill of the weak ones and we evolve into a better society!)