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Originally Posted by Doctorfever

If the election was today, who do you vote for?

Not that you asked me, but I'm going to answer anyway: at this point I would very seriously consider just foregoing casting a ballot for anyone. They're all horrible:

• The Liberals line up closest with my social beliefs, but I have huge problems with their lack of accountability for their spending programs—it is absolutely, positively unacceptable to me that Freeland as FM couldn't/wouldn't account for billions in Covid-related spending in the last couple fiscal years. I also do somewhat sympathize with right-wingers' loathing of the "woke" bull#### that Liberals have peddled in the last eight years. (I would agree with the right a lot more about this if they could/would discern the actual hypocritical "woke" #### from... whatever it is they happen to allegedly not like about... whatever random crap they call "woke".) The Liberals are masters at pandering to regionalism and creating social-policy strawmen (and it's made soooooo much easier for them by ineffectual Conservative opposition), and I absolutely detest it. Justin Trudeau really does come across as a "Laurentian elite" trust-fund kid who thinks that his party is "the natural-governing" one, and while I think he's way out of his depth at policy-making he/his team are extremely adept at playing social liberals like fiddles while spending like drunken Conservatives on a smattering of BS programs that few if any of us can feel any palpable results from. I do honestly believe that there are a great many politically-connected people making a lot of graft off of this government, and it's gross.
  
• The Conservatives have gone off the deep end with conspiratorial whackadoodle gibberish. I don't think the party leadership believes in it, but they've stoked the belief in it in a cross-section of gullible rubes who've taken over the party's grassroots base, and now they've made this pact with the devil such that the party leadership feel like they have to act like kooks in order to keep this utterly insane voter base satisfied. I honestly believe they're fascists in waiting, and wouldn't trust them to run a popsicle stand. Everything bad about Justin Trudeau is just as bad or worse with Pierre Poillievre.
  
• The NDP have carved off their little niche of voters, and I don't think they have the chops to steal more from anyone. They've got a lot of seemingly good and nice policy positions in their platform, but I don't believe have any real ability to effect them even if they won. I think deep down Jagmeet Singh is a pragmatist who realizes this, but he's milquetoast leader who inspires no one.
  
• The Greens are a comedy of self-inflicted errors, nothing more. Just a trainwreck that's fun to watch. They're what the NDP would be if they let the looney left wing run the show. As I see it their continued existence serves little purpose, because the Liberals and NDP have incorporated the only salient positions the Greens ever had regarding the environment.
  
• Maxime Bernier's People's Party is just the right-wing equivalent of the Greens: the home for disaffected Conservative voters who are too crazy even for the CPC.