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These two Liberal MP’s recognize that the proposal for resignation eventually of an unpopular leader will not, on its own, be enough. The majority of Canadians we speak to want change. They may well believe the Conservatives are generally too far to the right, but many equally believe that the Liberal party has gone too far to the left.
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(Is that what this map is telling us?)
As self proclaimed centrists they have and will continue to advocate for pragmatic policies that will earn the support of a broad coalition of Canadians?
There are a number of issues where these two Liberal MP’s would like to see changes.
As party members, we recognize that the resignation of an unpopular leader will not, on its own, be enough to effect change
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(Anthony Housefather is the member of Parliament for Mount Royal and Yvan Baker is the member of Parliament for Etobicoke Centre)
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We can let Canadians decide where their center is, if they’re allowed to have their say, with their ballots, in an election, eventually.
And this is exactly why I am neither left or right. Once one forms a group and others join that group, those people's ideals and views are dictated by that group. If you don't follow along and do & say what is expected, you're no longer part of that group. Eventually, those groups go further and further off the deep end.
Take Femenism and the MeToo movements. Things that originally had reasonable goals at the start, but then morphed into extreme BS that divided rather than united. Where MeToo morphed into an online lynch mob for any woman to use against any man without proof or due process and men lost jobs, relationships and families because nobody wanted to be associated with them or risk loss of business over accusations not proven in court. It got so damn bad that even guys were getting attacked online for claims of "Unwanted Advances" which were literally guys at a bar approaching a girl and wanting to talk..... Apparently that makes you a creep and a sexual predator now.
Which then led to the expansion of the Incel Movement and MGTOW or whatever the hell its call movement. Plus we got girls posting on TikTok and social media complaining they can't find any guys and no guy wants to approach them. I wonder'fk'n why? When women choose bears over men, you gave a pretty clear message.
But it goes beyond that and now into politics, where political parties once used to be centre left or centre right (or just plain centre), now they're all either far/extreme left or right and it's either their way or nothing at all. You either agree with them or you're the enemy. How the sweet hell can anyone expect anything in a government to get done in that kind of environment? Nothing usually does get done or only the bare ass minimum.
Compromises are required to get things moving ahead, and we all should know that compromises are when no side wins but both sides at least get something. It used to be the old fashion way of making a deal. But all this divisionalist (word of the day) crap just keeps going and getting worse.
Why? Because if our leaders can make the public finger point at each other for all their problems and blame their differing ideals and not compromise, then the public is too busy bitching at one another to realise just how incompetent all our leaders are through the whole political spectrum. They get paid and live better lives than most of us regardless on whether they do any work or not. They don't give a shit. All they need to do is toss out some catch phrases and blame the other guys to get some votes.
And people give them their votes, thinking that those politicians will magically fix all their problems in the world, when in reality, they'll be living in as much misery as they were before, just from different angles.
And when people finally get sick and tired of getting crammed up the kazoo with a pineapple, they'll vote in the next person doing the exact same thing expecting a different result. It was like this with Harper, then with Justin, and you'll all soon see it'll be the same shit when the next PM comes along.
It might be slightly different. Maybe a little more runny. Maybe a few cashew nuts. You could get really lucky and have some corn poking out..... But it's still gonna stink and you'll still be trying to wipe it away with no luck.
As I see it, I don't support any specific political party and refuse to lean any which direction. I take problems on a case by case basis, what seems right and wrong to me, and support what I think is best. No one political party is going to check all the boxes for me, so unfortunately, all I can personally do is toss a vote to whoever looks like they can check the most over the next, hope they check one or two of those boxes while in power, and then vote their sorry asses out for the next round and see if some other party can fix a few more things.
Hopefully they fix more than they break, which is all one can really hope for when casting a ballot in a representative democracy.
