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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
We're a nation of 40 million people. This country is small enough population wise and rich enough that properly implemented socialism could work.
This election comes down to leadership. I don't trust Harper. Justin Trudeau doesn't feel like a good leader. Mulcair, in the brief moments I've had a chance to hear him, seems honourable. On the basis of that alone, he's got the clubhouse lead.
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I am going to qualify this as a lifelong Liberal supporter, who is voting...Conservitive next election. The NDP cannot win the next election. I don't know your background, but my father reminds me of our last venture into "Socialism" in the early 80s as the NEP. I have rolled my eyes at him for the last 30 years but I am starting to see where he was coming from.
This is the guy who talked about Dutch Disease in relation to the oil and gas. Do you have faith Mulcair is going to leave us alone? I don't and I bet the people who call the shots don't. I am sure a NDP majority will lead to a massive pull back in investment that will make the provincial NDP win look like fluff.
This is a guy from out east who looks out for out east. Seriously the guy sees Alberta as a problem to be fixed, either by sharing the wealth or by shutting "the environmental nightmare" down.
I dislike Harper as much as most of you do. However, if you have any GD sense you will stay away from the NDP. This sunshine and lollipops utopia I used to believe in is over, I now get that there are plenty of people who want to hitch a ride without ever setting foot here, and this is from one of Klien's biggest critics.
Look I will be honest I don't remember my Dad losing his very well paying job in 1981. I do remember his stories he tells me with near tears in his eyes of the years that he did bit jobs so his kids would be fed every night. He isn't mad at Treadeau Sr. because he is a Conservative, he is actually quite Liberal. He is mad because of what he did to his family.
Seriously let's not brush that off, I have my whole life until now. I am not about to let history repeat itself so some guy can enact his socialist Utopia that will fail. Why the heck do we need to repeat history, that hand has been burned on the stove a generation ago.