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Originally Posted by MarchHare
... they're extremists who govern based on ideology, not based on facts and rationality. I prefer a moderate government that enacts legislation that makes sense and can be supported by research and data.
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I don't quite get this line of thinking -- please explain a bit more. Why is it a
bad thing to campaign and govern based on a certain "ideology?" Isn't that just a framework that one uses to understand and connect ideas together, and help govern one's actions? I can certainly understand that you may not agree with a certain ideology, but at least the Cons (in the past) and the NDP have been able to relatively clearly express what they believe in.
Frankly, that's one thing that's always been lacking for me in the Liberal party; they can't express any particular ideology that guides their thinking and decision-making, instead trying to live in the wishy-washy middle. As such, I can't even predict (for many issues) what kind of response they would have as a government.
It's not as if economics and social policy are proper sciences, where you can take facts & data and come to a "correct" conclusion. They are social non-sciences, where individual values and experiences greatly affect what people consider to be the best thing. In such a case, I want to know what ideologies my leaders happen to hold.
For the record, my vote will go either Con (if JT can't manage to demonstrate some maturity), Lib (if I come to believe that JT is mature enough), or "Protest" (if I can't get over the stink of the above options).