• Icalasari@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    He’s our Trump. Hope our country doesn’t make the same mistake as the states did in 2016

    • SamuelRJankis@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      If the polls hold up and the Conservative win people should realize that the LIberal’s could have changed things dramatically by implementing Voting Reform but refused to do so.

      Specifically the 155/108 Liberal MP’s getting paid at least 200k at year and their entire job is to lead this country holds a substantially higher burden then the millions of Canadians who barely spends any effort reading a news headline.

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        3 months ago

        If the polls hold up and the Conservative win people should realize that the LIberal’s could have changed things dramatically by implementing Voting Reform but refused to do so

        They don’t care.

        If they lose, they know they’ll be back in, depending on how bad the Conservatives do, on four to eight years, likely with a majority. Both parties are quite amenable to a periodic chair-switch.

        However, if they had put through electoral reform, they’d never get another majority again. They’d have to share power with other, likely left-leaning, parties, which they wouldn’t like. It would mean less power, less exclusive access to donations and reciprocation, and the ire of their donor class, who very much don’t want to see a goverment that aligns with Canadians instead of the investor class.

        The Liberals would ratther lose every seat in parliament than implement electoral reform.

        • SamuelRJankis@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 months ago

          That one is going to be on the people. I’ve encountered a few die hard Liberals here and they’re as baffling as a Conservative loyalist.

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            3 months ago

            How can someone be a die-hard Liberal? That’s like being a die-hard Wonderbread fan.

            If they were the kind of people to get tattoos, they’d read “Milquetoast4Lyfe”

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              3 months ago

              That’s like being a die-hard Wonderbread fan.

              Terrifyingly, I’m told those also exist.

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        3 months ago

        LOL! He’s too full of himself to do that! He still believes that he can win which is why he didn’t do proportional representation or anything good really.