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Originally Posted by Slava
It might seem that way, but I’ve voted Liberal, PC and most recently Alberta Party There are some of us who aren’t enamoured with the NDP and would never vote for the UCP. At this point, once you get past that, there’s not a lot of choice. I don’t think that’s a copout at all.
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So vote Liberal or Alberta Party, or Freedom, or Wildrose, or whoever. There’s choice. Of course pretending there isn’t is a cop out. It’s not particularly difficult to look at all the choices and figure which ones I’d be fine with governing and which ones I wouldn’t. Guess how I’m gonna vote? For the best of the group. I’m not sitting on my hands because none of them are perfect.
It’s not even “oh you gotta vote NDP because the UCP is dangerous!!” no, I don’t care who you vote for, but this goldilocks fantasy people have about politics is bordering on some new age centrist cliché. You’re not “enamoured” with a particular party? My god, better not vote at all then!
Even the whole “partisans are telling me to like their team!” thing… man, anyone who thinks like that needs to get over themselves. It might be the case that people have just thought about things differently than you have, or maybe even just a little more than you have, and they’ve come to a conclusion you didn’t. It doesn’t make them partisan. And people trying to sell you on a party doesn’t make them partisan, it just means they actually give a #### enough to try, and not so little that they just whine about not wanting to vote at all. Sometimes yeah, they are partisan, but what are you? Nothing? Sounds meaningful.