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While Canadians Struggle, the Liberal Government Is Focusing on Messaging (jacobin.com)

submitted 2 years ago by grte to c/canadapolitics

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[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“The reality is that being the leader sucks and meeting in the town square regularly is hard work. People just want to vote for (or maybe not even that much) who they think is the best dictator and let the the dictator do his thing […] We’ve tried to hack that onto FPTP over the years, but it was never designed for that mode of use, and as you would expect the results are dismal. Indeed, we do need a new system if we want to not have to express our will.”

Was there something in that which was not clear?

What you're saying is a strange, fantasy that has no connection to reality.

Honestly, I am unsure of what this is trying to say. My best interpretation is that it is still trying to point out that our bastardized attempt to turn FPTP into something it is not has failed, but that would just be repeating the quote quoted above it, so clearly I have missed the mark.

Sorry...I'm not interested in talking about your fantasies. We really need to discuss the reality of the Canadian political situation.

Have a good day.

[+] Rocket 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] MapleEngineer 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FPTP, used as it was designed, is very well suited to achieving what is stated.

No, it isn't, as I said above. The Harper government was elected three times with less than 40% of the popular vote and did all the things that Conservatives do, ran up the deficit, ran up the debt, cut taxes for the rich and corporations, cut services for everyone else, burned decades of scientific research and muzzled government experts to push his christofascist dogmatic agenda, passed unconstitutional laws as a dog whistle to his christofascist base then spent millions of dollars defending them to the Supreme Court only to have 100% of those unconstutitional laws struck down. How is that representing the majority of Canadians when then had the support of less than 40%?

The current Liberal + NDP agreement government far better represents the will of the people but it's a quirk of the FPTP system.