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Nice imagination you got there. Do you have more things to imagine about what my political positions are, while calling me a fucking traitor?
Some people man.
Consequences matter. Maybe you are full of leftwing virtue but no one sane or intelligent cares.
Valuing your virtue over consequences makes you a threat to everyone, including yourself. You'll sink the ship for your principles and drag everyone down with you. So yes, if it minimizes you or your group's political influence it makes sense to call you a traitor.
Its what got my country Trump. I now feel a visceral internal rage when anyone tells me "Democrats and Republicans are the same." Regardless of what their actual politics are. Because I know they did not vote, they let this shit happen so they wouldn't "dirty their hands". I hate them. I despise them.
Buddy, your political system is nothing like ours. We don't have one all-or-nothing election. We have a Westminster system, we have a multiparty democracy, we have minority governments and the capacity for coalitions. Our supreme Court justices retire, our federalism is not broken like yours and we don't have founding daddy issues that cripple us to blindly worshipping some 200 year old piece of paper.
Keep your rage your side of the border, your frame of reference does not translate to our system. Pipe down.
You still have a first past the post. My rage applies to people who ignore tactical voting in order to maintain their sense of virtue.
Besides, based on what you've said for all I know if you were eligible to vote in the US, you'd abstain from voting or advocate that both parties were bad and complain about lesser evilism here.
What happened to "You Americans act like you are the world, maybe pay attention to the rest of us."? If I'm to invest time in world events, I obviously am going to make some level of commentary.
That your country elected a government hostile to the Trump admin is very much my business. I am incredibly happy that your voting population has done so. I hope Carney embarrasses Trump. I hope he makes my fellow dipshit Americans who voted for Trump or failed to vote against him feels every ounce of bad decision making and evil and SUFFERS.
I've said it before, but if somehow in the future there was some military conflict between our countries, I would end up siding with your government in a heart beat and maybe even attempt to join your military... I would do things to MAGA homes that would have international watch dogs vomit at the sight of, my antipathy for MAGA is that intense.
Good. Hopefully it won't ever come to that. And it's good that you're paying attention. But inform yourself before you go all guns blazing.
Tactical voting in Canada is a much much much more granular affair than in the US. And tactical voting does not mean necessarily "vote for the centrist or the fascists win". Case in point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchener_Centre_(federal_electoral_district) The Conservatives won because Liberals split the vote and ended up costing the incumbent Green MP the seat. The same Green had beat the Conservatives in the previous election. So stupid US-style tactical voting for the centrist handed a seat to the Right. Do you see why I react the way I do with stupid monkeying of US style two-party politics?
I've entered a stage of my life where I've become fairly nihilistically and hedonistically emotional about politics. The recent election has made me a depressed and angry doomer. I no longer know that I care if things are made better anymore because I'm disgusted by almost everyone within my country. I feel exceptionally alone. I'm motivated by spite now.
It depends if on aggregate tactical voting hurts the conservatives, which I imagine it does. An individual case of this going the opposite way is not particularly compelling.
But yes, Canada's electoral system is significantly less awful than the US's.
Not particularly compelling? In a minority government context? Oh god, you really have no idea what you're talking about. Cheerio.
I don't think you understood my point.