It is vote splitting of the left. One thing I find frustrating about Greens is when they refuse to see that the NDP and Green parties have more in common then either have in common with the Libs. Earlier in the campaign I was considering voting Green because I liked their platform more then I like the NDP platform. Eventually though, on election day, it was a no-brainer. As I predicted, a lot of the people who voted green on may 17th incidentally voted Liberal. Under a better electoral system, voting for minority parties like the Greens may actually be democratic and worth your while. But under the current system, it becomes vote splitting on the left. The Greens are a left-wing party... therefore one must assume that their voters are left-leaning. If there are two left-wing parties in every election and only one right-wing party, it doesn't matter that we have more left-leaning people in BC because that vote is split. It's really stupid. I don't put all the blame on the Green party, although they are being really annoying by not admitting there is a vote split. At least the NDP acknowledges that the vote on the left is split. One of those two parties needs to either go away, or the two need to come together in order to unify the left. Having these two parties fight over the left-leaning voters is simply going to reck both their chances, for the Greens it recks their chances of ever getting 1 single seat. For the NDP it's a bigger loss, they must try and win a majority of seats whilst a tiny Green thorn is awaiting them in every seat of BC. With the NDP's huge chunk of voter support and the Green's small chunk of voter support, they can defeat the Liberals every election. But divided they fall. Despite their differences, they are left wing parties. And they are confusing our %50 of left-leaning voters, whilst the 46% of our right-leaning voters know exactly where to concentrate their vote. It's a matter of concentration, there aren't more right-wing people in BC but they are voting more efficiently. The majority of BC voters are left-leaning, but they can never represent that majority in an election until the political parties on the left start letting them concentrate their vote. We need every left vote in order to oust the right. I don't care whether it's the NDP or Green who gets the left vote so long as it's not being split. I hope the Green party dies. I am glad Adrianne Carr suffered defeat this tuesday and I hope they never run again. Not because i dislike the Greens, not because I dislike her, but because she has a weaker chance of saving us from Campbell and she is ruining the NDP's good chance by splitting the vote. Both the NDP and the Greens need to negotiate a coalition, they need to stack their chips together in order to take Campbell down. If they'd done it this election we'd already be free. I would love a Green-NDP coalition party. I think it would be a beautiful mixture.
