I feel sad about it.
I used to naively believe governments would actually govern and act in the best interests of their citizens based on philosophical ideals.
None of these parties on the whole are made of people I support. To me, it's clearly a game of grifting and/or raising taxes while providing a fraction of services.
Along the way, the plebes are pitted against each other and are kept busy by calling each other names.
What I can support, however, is steering very clear from a two-party system. Generally, I now vote for the third party as long as it's not something insane like the PPC or whatever Larry Heather would want.
Municipally, I voted for Chabot last time, NDP federally recently, Liberals provincially, etc... If the Conservatives somehow dropped to the third choice, I'd vote for them too. I just want a more fulsome and sane spectrum of choice.
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