Not really. It's the same interim: Until everyone else gets tired of them.
They're a placeholder, because Canadian politics are really simple. We have psychotic inbred lunatics, and we also have the Liberal party. The Liberals run the country until they get cocky, start assuming they have a NATURAL right to rule and not just an "only-non-stupid-option" bye at the lists, and piss people off. Then we elect someone, anyone else to a temporary government, not because we WANT the other guys, but because dropping the Liberals out of power teaches them a little humility.
We're careful, though, to avoid letting The Other Guys actually get a majority, because, like I said before, they're psychotic inbred lunatics. Leaving them a minority means that the *OTHER* psychotic inbred lunatics, plus the Liberals, can put a block on anything that's really psychotic. In the same way, we can toss them out any time we want. However, as long as they're not being *too* stupid, they get to stay, they get to make some minor decisions, and the results remind everyone why it is that they love the non-stupid option so much, and the delay teaches the non-stupid option that if they get stupid, they get put in the corner and made to wear the dunce cap and listen to the stupid for a few years.
But yeah. On a federal level, our voting choices are the Separatists, the Socialists, the National Socialists, and The Government Of Canada. And the Separatists are only available in a very few areas.
Okay, sure. Change is good. And I understand that BQ can't form a government because it just doesn't have enough possible seats. But given the choice between the Conservatives and the NDP, why not give the NDP a shot? (If for no other reason than to alarm Manitoba.)
#1: Because the CPC are more popular, coasting on the continued mistaken belief that they're a rebranding of the PC party, not a rebranding of the US Republican party.
#2: Because, as Ontario proved, the NDP are utterly, dangerously incompetent. They allow ideology to dictate policy over reality as much as the CPC do, but they do so in areas that are seriously damaging rather than mostly just offensive. This means that if you're willing to risk the NDP, you either have an NDP Majority and then you spend a generation digging yourself out of the hole they put you in through their insane policies and incompetent mismanagement, or you have an NDP minority, and they fall the first time they try to pass a batshit-crazy budget, which means they don't last long enough to teach the ACTUAL government a lesson.
#3: I believe you mean Alberta, not Manitoba. But yes.
No, electing the CPC for a short term once every few decades is the least-damaging choice, at the moment.
(Note that I'm not saying I *like* the current situation. It's just a matter of fact, at the moment, regardless of what I'd like.)
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Date: 2008-04-16 08:20 pm (UTC)They're a placeholder, because Canadian politics are really simple. We have psychotic inbred lunatics, and we also have the Liberal party. The Liberals run the country until they get cocky, start assuming they have a NATURAL right to rule and not just an "only-non-stupid-option" bye at the lists, and piss people off. Then we elect someone, anyone else to a temporary government, not because we WANT the other guys, but because dropping the Liberals out of power teaches them a little humility.
We're careful, though, to avoid letting The Other Guys actually get a majority, because, like I said before, they're psychotic inbred lunatics. Leaving them a minority means that the *OTHER* psychotic inbred lunatics, plus the Liberals, can put a block on anything that's really psychotic. In the same way, we can toss them out any time we want. However, as long as they're not being *too* stupid, they get to stay, they get to make some minor decisions, and the results remind everyone why it is that they love the non-stupid option so much, and the delay teaches the non-stupid option that if they get stupid, they get put in the corner and made to wear the dunce cap and listen to the stupid for a few years.
But yeah. On a federal level, our voting choices are the Separatists, the Socialists, the National Socialists, and The Government Of Canada. And the Separatists are only available in a very few areas.
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Date: 2008-04-17 11:26 am (UTC)#2: Because, as Ontario proved, the NDP are utterly, dangerously incompetent. They allow ideology to dictate policy over reality as much as the CPC do, but they do so in areas that are seriously damaging rather than mostly just offensive. This means that if you're willing to risk the NDP, you either have an NDP Majority and then you spend a generation digging yourself out of the hole they put you in through their insane policies and incompetent mismanagement, or you have an NDP minority, and they fall the first time they try to pass a batshit-crazy budget, which means they don't last long enough to teach the ACTUAL government a lesson.
#3: I believe you mean Alberta, not Manitoba. But yes.
No, electing the CPC for a short term once every few decades is the least-damaging choice, at the moment.
(Note that I'm not saying I *like* the current situation. It's just a matter of fact, at the moment, regardless of what I'd like.)
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Date: 2008-04-17 08:34 pm (UTC)I hate the NDP. But then, I hate “representative” “democracy”, so.
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