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It would be so awesom, people would have to vote for it.
At they very least, I'd vote for it. And every vote is worth money.
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I'd vote for the nerd party. We'd need a better name for it though. And we'd have to legalize marijuana. And build huge government funded plantations and give it away free to all those who voted for us, and abolish all religion except the Jedi Code! And build 50 meter tall walking machines of death and destruction to subjugate the weak minded fools who would dare oppose us!!!
On second thought, it's probably better if we didn't...
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The Apathy Party sounds like a winner. You could have the Secretary of State for Whatever, the Ministry of I'll Do It Tomorrow, and the Department of I'm Going Back To Bed.
We're getting a new President this Sunday. Except we are actually re-electing the old one, regardless of who wins. The challengers have had to go through enough hoops to lure in the (in)decisive voters that the only remaining differences will be in hair color and gender. And the remaining challenger might be forced to compromise on those as well by Sunday. I'm refraining from voting in advance mainly in expectation of some last-minute surgery.
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Nothing wrong with it. The selection of peoples that the Irish can have fun on is pretty narrow after all, dontcha think?
OTOH, if our Halonen got the Green (and Orange?) votes thanks to O'Brien, she'd take by landslide anybody who only had the couple of million Finnish voters on his side. That's how the elections in the 60s-70s used to go, too: one candidate usually had 200 million Soviet votes to back him up...
quote:Originally posted by Saltah'na: I should keep my eyes peeled.... we've just became a much more tempting target for terrorism.
I'm not a big fan of the conservatives either but gee, alarmist much? I don't think international terrorism is heavily invested in the Canadian election.
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No, but if Canada starts tap-dancing with the Americans step-by-step and following American policies abroad, we may as well be.
A few years before this, Stephen Harper was seething red when the Liberal Government (rightly) decided not to join the American invasion of Iraq. He may say that he will rethink that position, but if Canada decides to send troops to a war with the similar premise as Iraq, we may soon see suicide bombers on our very own streets. Spain saw it, and so did Britain.
I would rather the Canadian government follow the wishes of its people then be bullied by That Large Land Mass South Of The Fourty-Ninth Parallel.
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Well, the way I see it is, even if they aren't viable, there are always alternatives. Don't like either of the two partys? Vote for a third party. In our system at least, every vote for a party gets that party some funds, so while they won't be in power, they can at least try and get their points across.
And if more people thought this way, third partys would be a whole lot more viable.
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But you've already got a third (and a fourth) party that are politically important. A few more seats and the NDP could force all sorts of deals from the Conservatives, for instance.
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Which is sort of my pont. Peole are all "I don't like the Conservatives or the Liberals, so I don't vote."
We had something like 65% voter turnout. If even half of the non-voters came out and voted, even if it was for go-nowhere parties, it may have made a difference in the kind of government they ended up with.
At the very least, 17% of the legal voters picking these parties would probably make for some interesting news.
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Exactly. Before this election, the Green Party was limited to a few ridings in major cities and the like. But with more votes, they got enough funding to be able to have a candidate in every riding in the country.
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