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I agree. Unfortunately most Canadians aren’t as informed as they should be about politics, and around 40% don’t even bother voting. I’m against strategic voting generally, but understand that it sometimes has its place, and the last election, in my opinion, was an example of that.
The fact is we’d be well on our way down the path the US has chosen to do down if it wasn’t for strategic voting. This is also why I mentioned the NDP needs a charismatic leader. They need to both convert people to their party, and convince the non-voters to vote. Charisma is needed for that.
If I had to call it right now, we’re looking at a Conservative win next election. The NDP is our only real shot, and it won’t happen without charisma, strong policy, and a leader who won’t shut up. They need to come out of the gate swinging, and swinging hard.
If we are at the point where we need to engage in the anti-democracy of strategic voting because enough of the country is already loving what the Conservatives are up to then we are already well on the path. There’s no “starting on the path” when we’re already halfway down it. We need to get off this train, not just slow it down, because we’re going the wrong direction and have been for a while.
The US is a perfect, contemporary example of this. Even today there are people in that country like “if this next bad thing happens then we’re really in it!” and it’s like, brother, ya’ll’ve been in it for decades now! We gotta stop pretending like these things aren’t problems yet because it gives us a false sense of security and we don’t fight obviously bad shit when it’s weak enough that we actually can fight it. Our next election is going to be a fucking disaster unless the Liberals suddenly decide to allow ranked-choice voting to be a thing but otherwise people treat them as the default and we’re gunna hear the same bullshit “but I HAD to strategic vote this time because…” no matter how awesome the NDP leader is.
We have fucked ourselves out of the comfortable resistance.
I agree. Unfortunately most Canadians aren’t as informed as they should be about politics, and around 40% don’t even bother voting. I’m against strategic voting generally, but understand that it sometimes has its place, and the last election, in my opinion, was an example of that.
The fact is we’d be well on our way down the path the US has chosen to do down if it wasn’t for strategic voting. This is also why I mentioned the NDP needs a charismatic leader. They need to both convert people to their party, and convince the non-voters to vote. Charisma is needed for that.
If I had to call it right now, we’re looking at a Conservative win next election. The NDP is our only real shot, and it won’t happen without charisma, strong policy, and a leader who won’t shut up. They need to come out of the gate swinging, and swinging hard.
If we are at the point where we need to engage in the anti-democracy of strategic voting because enough of the country is already loving what the Conservatives are up to then we are already well on the path. There’s no “starting on the path” when we’re already halfway down it. We need to get off this train, not just slow it down, because we’re going the wrong direction and have been for a while.
The US is a perfect, contemporary example of this. Even today there are people in that country like “if this next bad thing happens then we’re really in it!” and it’s like, brother, ya’ll’ve been in it for decades now! We gotta stop pretending like these things aren’t problems yet because it gives us a false sense of security and we don’t fight obviously bad shit when it’s weak enough that we actually can fight it. Our next election is going to be a fucking disaster unless the Liberals suddenly decide to allow ranked-choice voting to be a thing but otherwise people treat them as the default and we’re gunna hear the same bullshit “but I HAD to strategic vote this time because…” no matter how awesome the NDP leader is.
We have fucked ourselves out of the comfortable resistance.