This election, everyone is voting strategically to stop a CPC majority. But have they really stopped to think of the long-term consequences? And what would be the advantages of a principled vote. here I'll try to compare them in the long-term.
Strategic voting: Out of fear of a CPC majority, everyone scrambles to vote Liberal. the Liberals win, or at least the CPC has no majority, and things go so-so for the next four to five years. The great medeocrity is far better than the great evil after all, does it not? Maybe not, as we shall see. What will happen four or five years from now as a consequence? The CPc will claim that the reason everything is just so-so is because they've never had a chance to prove themselves as a majority. and of course the Liberals will try the 'anything but conservative' ploy again. You can see how strategic voting just postpones the inevitable. the CPC will simply remain until having had the chance to prove themselves. Even if it takes another 100 years.
Now let's compare this to principled voting. So let's say you decide to vote for the best candidate in your riding regardless of his chances of winning. So yu cause a split vote, and the CPC gets a majority. Four years later, if indeed we're right and their policies are disastrous, they have no recourse for the next election but to be decimated. And the Liberals would know too that they couldn't just count on manipulating us with anything-but schemes. At that stage, we could start to see progress.
So now the choice is yours. You can vote strategically this election and the next, and the next.....
Or you can vote on principle this election, and the next, and the next...
The future is yours to make.
Strategic voting: Out of fear of a CPC majority, everyone scrambles to vote Liberal. the Liberals win, or at least the CPC has no majority, and things go so-so for the next four to five years. The great medeocrity is far better than the great evil after all, does it not? Maybe not, as we shall see. What will happen four or five years from now as a consequence? The CPc will claim that the reason everything is just so-so is because they've never had a chance to prove themselves as a majority. and of course the Liberals will try the 'anything but conservative' ploy again. You can see how strategic voting just postpones the inevitable. the CPC will simply remain until having had the chance to prove themselves. Even if it takes another 100 years.
Now let's compare this to principled voting. So let's say you decide to vote for the best candidate in your riding regardless of his chances of winning. So yu cause a split vote, and the CPC gets a majority. Four years later, if indeed we're right and their policies are disastrous, they have no recourse for the next election but to be decimated. And the Liberals would know too that they couldn't just count on manipulating us with anything-but schemes. At that stage, we could start to see progress.
So now the choice is yours. You can vote strategically this election and the next, and the next.....
Or you can vote on principle this election, and the next, and the next...
The future is yours to make.