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Originally Posted by Jacks
No, when a credible alternative comes around you vote the old guard out. Unfortunately the NDP are not an option. The Libs might be an option if they got back to sound economic policies, not carbon taxes and long gun registries. Problem is that the Libs haven't changed much since they were turfed.
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This is what I get as well. The PC weren't exactly likable in the last election, but were put in because it was viewed as a case of the least of the evils (now you could argue if it was because the Liberals were demonized or shot their own foot. Either way, they were viewed as a bad option by a lot of the population, worsened by the first past the post system).
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Originally Posted by Slava
No worse than what we've seen Ignatieff and Dion go through. Its just par for the course unfortunately. Even in the US we saw Bush get flamed by his opponents for years and now that he is out and a few years have passed peoples views on him have softened. I'm not suggesting he would be elected gleefully as president, but its the old adage that time heals all wounds.
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I find people tend to polarize their opinions of any event until emotions wear off and more critical thinking takes over. It seems to happen with almost everything: Movies, sports, politics...people go into extremes soon after and only start to soften after being removed for a while. My belief is that's because people aren't geared to think through logic by default, but to act with emotion, so their opinions spin to fit their emotion and create what is almost a caricature of reality to make it happen. I think when all is said and done, the view on Harper will soften too as oppose to the "death of democracy" view that seems to be hanging around at the moment.