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Originally Posted by MattyC
Well you seemed to presume the only reason some would vote LPC is because they are blinded by the flow of Trudeau's locks, or that they don't like LPC, just hate CPC. These are the case for some, I'm sure. Some people may actually like the LPC's policies, crazy I know. Some people may have been on the fence but have been pulled to the LPC due to the CPC's transgressions, yeah, that's OK too.
So yea, when you frame it like that, it looks like you're justifying the change in government only based on people hate for CPCs vs the other parties having policies people actually agree with, which is not true, and frankly insulting to those voting anyone other than CPC.
Not to mention, if you are truly disgusted by the way someone behaves to the point that you find it prudent to remove them without being in love with the other parties, they have obviously still looked each option and decided that "anyone but CPC" was their best choice. It doesn't make it wrong or against democracy. That's exactly what democracy gives us the freedom to do, choose what we want (or don't want).
If you have a problem with the way each party is being run, you;re welcome to try and change things yourself. Democracy!
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You make a number of good points. However, I'm mostly trying to draw attention to the fact that many people do in fact abandon voting for the party that most closely matches their stances on issues in favor of a "lesser of evils" choice that is more likely to defeat the "worse of evils" choice. This in turn leads to an undermining of the purported function of representative democracy, which is supposed to be that representatives in office are a true & accurate representation of the wishes of the populace.
This has a damaging effect on parties that are smaller and not well known, who may actually be better than any of the well-known choices, but can't win because the populace hasn't heard of them and/or don't know much about them.
Many may vote for Trudeau based on the fact that they legitimately like what he and other Liberal candidates have had to say during the campaign, but never forget that there is a huge difference between politicians
saying what they will do when they get into office and actually
doing those things when they get into office.