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I'm so afraid that the American apathy will spread to us here and we'll get a right wing government.
I've had to hold my nose and vote JT because the conservative party runs a nutjob or moron to go up against him, over and over. And jagmeet Singh just hides under a desk hoping the election passes him over.
I wish the NDP got a leader who actually wants to win
Ford got a majority government in Ontario with only 17% of the potential votes.
When parties have unfavourable leaders who spend all their time quibbling nobody shows up to vote.
Everyone I know was saying Mike Schreiner was the only adult in the room but Green was a wasted vote, and all Doug had to do was say nothing to win.
Hot take - the NDP should only run candidates in ridings they're likely to win, and they should scream from the rooftops that voting for those candidates won't vote-split in favour of a con. The campaign money would go further, the probability of electing cons due to vote split drops significantly, they likely get more NDP MPs elected, the probability of a majority government decreases, hold higher power over a minority government. If it works, rinse and repeat, gaining more MPs every time.
The problem is that for years the NDP has swung further centrist instead of further left, giving us no true left party (except the Greens, who've been in damage control for years now).
Jack Layton did that in the hopes he could lead the NDP to a national win. Problem was he got sick and couldn't follow through ... so now we're left with nothing.
The Greens are also full of crazy people, and very inconsistent from member to member. Greens run the gamut of "We need to stop climate change while also helping the poor", to "Vaccines are evil, you need to sun your yoni instead, and 9/11 was an inside job that also never happened".
Even if they can stop having negative headlines, they would need a constant platform and candidate vetting process to get my vote again.