"work it" conservatives
Ok, so it's likely that everyone reading my blog knows that I passionately hate the conservatives, however, I got to thinking about what would happen if the conservatives did narrowly win the election. The fact that the statistics are currently showing a high percentage of votes will go to the conservatives really demonstrates the fact that Canadians are nearly as stupid as Americans. I'd say that Canadians are 3/5ths as stupid as Americans, based on the polls.
But perhaps Canadians aren't really that stupid... perhaps they're all just too trustworthy and believe everything that Harper is telling them. Trustworthyness is nothing to be looked down upon. But there's only really one way to show those people that Harper's government will try to fuck up Canada... let Harper's government govern Canada, it won't take long for the party to start collapsing under its own weight. Heck, look at the Aliance after the last election, as the official opposition they couldn't even keep their party own together let alone attack the ruling party, just imagine if they had actually won the last election!?
Now, let's take the following scenario...
Harper wins with 35% of the votes
Liberals come away with 34%
NDP gets 23%
Bloc gets 8%
If I've done my math right, that should be 100%. So Harper becomes PM. Let's say that the liberals decide not to join the NDP because they feel that the NDP is too left wing for them. Now Harper gets to make the decisions. Harper's government will start making BAD decisions. Decisions that Canadians hate. They'll start wasting money on defense contracts, they'll discuss re-implementing the draft. People will really start to see why the conservatives were a bad choice.
The people will have only one real alternative to turn to in an attempt to correct their bad voting decision... the liberals. They'll protest to the liberals to join with the NDP and abolish the Harper government, the liberals will do it, there'll be a vote of non-confidence, there'll be a new election and the people will realize that maybe a government could do worse things then cutting some programs in order to reduce our deficit and dept. This comes with the benifit that we won't have to worry about the conservatives for either this government, nor the next one.
If Harper comes a close second, he may just win next time.
Of course, the odds of liberals refusing to align with the NDP right off the bat are probably pretty minimal.
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The reason so many people
The reason so many people voted conservative is because at this point, they'd rather have a monkey running the country than the liberals. Its easier to vote for the devil you don't know in the vain hope that it will be better than the devil you've known the last 10 years.
The liberals squander our money away, and give it to their friends, this sucks alot. The conservatives are *supposed* to be our alternative to this, but instead their platform seemed to be "we will waste your money too, just on different stuff".
Quite frankly, I suprised myself by supporting the NDP, they certainly have some bad ideas too, but their platform as a whole is better than either the liberals of the conservatives. And Jack Layton is one of the only politians with any credibility at all. Unlike Martin, who we already know is only concerned with himself and his friends, I actually believe that Layton cares about the country and wants to make it a better place. I certainly haven't seen any other politicians actually living their beliefs instead of just paying them lip service.
>> The liberals squander our
>> The liberals squander our money away, and give it to their friends, this sucks alot.
This is true, but relatively they squandered almost nothing compared to the government before them. They (with Martin's help) balanced the budget and began paying off our countries huge debt.
I too voted NDP (but only because they were doing better in my riding than the liberals, i.e. I voted strategically :-), but I would have preferred to vote Green if my riding wasn't so close.) but I'd honestly much rather have a government that wastes my tax dollars than one that uses them to set our country back 25 years in human rights issues, and I would expect (although perhaps unwarrantedly) that most Canadians would feel this way as well.
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