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Originally Posted by 4X4
Call me naive, but I think politicians would be more accountable if the voters would hold them to their promises by punishing them at teh ballot box. Sounds too simple to be true, right?
It's pathetic that we have had the same party in power for 30+ years. And the way Ralph started abusing his power immediately into his second term is shameful. Shameful that we voted him back in a third time without him even tableing a platform.
Of course, after Nancy MacBeth (literally) cried about losing, it was all downhill from there. We do need viable opponents (as already mentioned).
But the worst part about our one party rule, is that we whined and complained about the federal Liberals getting re-elected time after time.
It's time for a change!
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True. That appears to be true at every level of politics. There seems to be too much voting for the party name instead of the platform.
Although you can't count on the parties following their platform. Additionally I don't want to vote for a platform you don't agree with, but how else do you punish the ruling party if they are the only ones you generally agree with? It isn't like we can say, "PCs take a time-out; Liberals can govern for the next 6 weeks until the government has learned their lesson"
Nomination meetings or leadership reviews can perhaps be used for this, but few people want to punish a winner and even then it is only a small fraction of the populace who is represented.