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Originally Posted by timun
O'Toole was pulling the party closer to centre, closer to the PCs of old, in the hopes of making them more electable. The party base ate him alive for doing so.
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The funny thing is that O'Toole's conservatives actually had more popular votes (1.1% more than the Liberals), yet they won 41 fewer seats. That's a pretty huge discrepancy for just a 1.1% difference in popular votes in favour of the runner-up.
Democracies aren't perfect, especially parliamentary democracies. Republican style democracies can be better, but not always. I don't see direct direct democracy or open government styles being realistic either, so I don't know what the solution is. I disagree with a lot of conservative views, but I am am starting to understand why many feel disenfranchised and why extremism is becoming more popular.
I have always been of the mind set that both sides should be represented fairly and the pendulum should swing back and forth between ruling parties for healthy democracies.