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    his failings needs to compare him to the alternative

    Crazy how Carney Bad doesn’t need to be backed up with evidence that PP would have been better.

    Like are Canadians really so dense that we can’t comprehend people voting defensively and have to assume everyone cultishly follows who they vote for?

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      Crazy how Carney Bad doesn’t need to be backed up with evidence that PP would have been better.

      Turd sandwich versus shit burrito.

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        At least you can see the turd in the sandwich before you bite it? I dunno maybe that analogy works better for CPC.

        I voted LPC specifically to protect disabled peoples access to services and life saving medications. I believe CPC would have allowed for US style markups as well as failing to preserve supply chains, and defunding/eliminating social supports. As opposition they’ve said a lot but done nothing on the matter which to me speaks to their true convictions.

        People love to pretend I/others voted LPC cuz we were seduced by Mark Carney but EoD I voted to protect the people I love from maga & crony capitalism.

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        NDP didn’t bring enough to the table just like that comment.

        Source: NDP voter.

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          More than 3 parties, he didn’t have to be the defensive choice.

          People can’t avoid criticism for voting for someone just because they didn’t want someone else to win.

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            My riding flipped a CPC stronghold voting LPC and green/NDP got less than 5% of the vote combined.

            Please stop wasting peoples time with baseless generalizations. Depak Chopra level political wisdom does more harm than good.

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              If they were all voting defensively then couldn’t the NDP/green/etc win if those votes all went to them?

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                In some ridings maybe. But a big problem in ridings out west is that NDP/Green candidates change every cycle meaning that many people are effectively voting based on the party leadership.

                Avi Lewis leadership will hopefully attract stronger candidates that also have the conviction to stick around for multiple election cycles.

                The other thing is there’s next to zero provincial/federal cooperation for NDP/Green/ LPC… but culturally the CPC supports the provincial conservative parties.

                The “3rd Party Argument” is an American discussion bleeding north that has little to do with the Canadian political context. Hence why I considering a timewasting generalization.

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                  My point is that it doesn’t avoid culpability. People get what they vote for, if they don’t like it then they should be politically active to change it.

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                    Absolutely agree.

                    But like why is everyone trying to act like LPC voters have buyers remorse or didn’t know what they were voting for?

                    Like I knew who mark carney was and I decided voting for him would protect my family/community by ensuring their access to life saving medications and social supports. That was my why.

                    I would have rather voted NDP but given my riding being a CPC incumbent, and my beleive that a CPC government would jack medication prices, eliminate supports, and possiby mess up the supply chain so that life saving medications become completely unavailabe… i would not have voted for the LPC.