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Originally Posted by MattyC
I don't disagree with the majority of this.
But your last sentence is hilarious considering the original comment you made that set this off. If you think that, you must assume that all politicians are lying about their campaign policies and, ironically, THAT is when democracy fails. You can't just assign that assumption to the party most closely opposing your party without applying it to everyone. If you go in with the assumption that their not going to do what they say then there's no point to any of this. You have to assume they will at least try to do what they say to the best of their ability, otherwise you might as well abstain. Or start your own party that will some how make good on every single promise they make.
Seriously, has that ever happened once? There's an opposition for a reason.
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I think the difference is that both the Liberal party and Conservative party have a well-documented history of corruption while in power, whereas the other parties haven't been in power yet. IMO the others deserve a shot to show that they can govern in an ethical manner (or at least deserve a fighting chance of winning an election, from a campaign funding standpoint).