It's best to vote in your best interests of course. My point was doing so creates opportunities to exploit vote splitting, which the CPC win seats with, not always bcoz they offer the policy inline with best interests of constituents.
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I'm curious what you believe would be the right move? No snark, I have no suggestions. The thing is, if we were to unite 'the left' (used loosely, Libs aren't left) you would lose people who vote NDP because that's 'the left' here. I'd never vote Liberal, just like I'd never vote PC
Yeah good question. What about at the constituency level? Meaning if the Lib candidate was strong, vote them. If NDP candidate was the stronger one, go thaf way. Not doing the CPC at any cost however. Voting for someone like May is ok cuz she likely to win as well. All about winning the seat for me
I'll put it like this, if my only choice was to vote Liberal, I'd spoil my ballot first. I'm not a single issue voter by any means, but the federal liberal policy on Palestine by itself comes close to disqualifying them in my book. Not to mention electoral reform, and their general neoliberal policy
My issue isn't with Trudeau specifically, it's with the status quo governing they subscribe to, and that predates current leadership. I suspect an NDP government would end up as more of the same, but I'll keep voting for them until they get a chance to show me what they're capable of
I'm a CIS, hetero, white guy, in my 40's. I'm not really voting in my interests because my interests are going to be covered regardless. I'm trying to vote in the interests of the marginalized whose voices aren't being listened to, that's what the right/centerists don't really acknowledge. I'm going
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