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Originally Posted by blankall
Ummm...running for politics is kind of a big time commitment. It's not like blowing off somebody to go for a drink. You don't need an "excuse". Most people don't have an extra 40 hours a week to spend for the next several years.
It also takes serious sucking up to a party to get them to put you forward as a candidate. I don't want to vote for a party, yet I should spend all of my time attempting to work my way up their ranks?
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No - you don't have to. It's all about getting involved. Feel too proud to vote for any of the choices out there? Feel like the options just aren't there for yourself and the rest of Canada? Then put yourself up as a candidate or start your own party. At the very least volunteer an hour or two a week to improve the quality of candidates and help what's there become better. Complaining about the quality of candidates and not participating in democracy gets you nowhere.
It's like someone who drops a deuce on the floor and the person who sees it spends all day complaining about how gross it is but doesn't clean it up.