With our current system you either vote strategically or with your heart, and those are often conflicting. Either I vote with my heart (NDP), or I vote strategically (LPC) to counter the CPC.
I’d like to at least see the approval voting system one day.
Induced behaviour. If the NDP was promising to roll over for every major corporation the way the LPC and CPC do, I’m sure the public would suddenly find that they’ve always loved the NDP, can’t remember any other way. Our collective memory is curated.
I will never understand the thing about Canadians refusing to vote for the only major party that plans to actually improve their lives.
With our current system you either vote strategically or with your heart, and those are often conflicting. Either I vote with my heart (NDP), or I vote strategically (LPC) to counter the CPC.
I’d like to at least see the approval voting system one day.
I’ve voted NDP many times over the years.
But when they run a non-viable seat filler in my riding, voting ABC becomes the pragmatic choice.
screams
Bob Rae!!!
Bob Rae was and still is an excellent leader and statesman.
Yup. But Cons scream about him every time you bring up the NDP as an alternative.
We are essentially the same as America, a two-party system.
It seems that way if you don’t know your history.
I will never understand the NDP not switching their leadership and messaging.
Singh is not going to win. They need a more pro worker and pro jobs message.
Induced behaviour. If the NDP was promising to roll over for every major corporation the way the LPC and CPC do, I’m sure the public would suddenly find that they’ve always loved the NDP, can’t remember any other way. Our collective memory is curated.