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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Go for it, I'm curious. Off the top of my head, you, me, rube, cliff, tinordi, slava, vlad, polak, mattyC, pepsifree, locke are liberal. I guess Yooh, Captaincrunch maybe, Estrada, Eldrick maybe, peter12, 2stonedbirds are conservative. I'm going to categorize Nobama as a troll.
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You know what's funny? I'd love to be liberal. Really I would. But the sort of things discussed by say rubecube for example (the new left) simply do not represent me. That's not a shot a rubecube at all, I'm merely addressing his viewpoint on where the liberal party is heading. The liberal party loves evidence based policy, so long as that evidence agrees with their ideology. I hope to proven wrong on this in the upcoming months.
I'd love to have a Canada that is socially liberal, and economically conservative. I'd also like unicorns and a liger, but some things are not politically feasible.
Or at least, the political parties tell us it's not feasible.
I was however really encouraged by Justin's speech after the election where he discussed working with conservatives to create the kind of Canada we all want, and try and rise above divisive politics.
The idea of shouting down conversation or denouncing someone's opinion based on past opinion is akin to shooting the messenger in order to preserve a safe space. If the idea is bad, that's fine, but there is a means of open discourse without reducing ourselves to savagery.