tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post2446720678072148649..comments2024-03-28T22:02:16.520-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: A Vanity Production?Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-43687730697279517212015-09-30T16:17:03.342-04:002015-09-30T16:17:03.342-04:00Your comment, Anon, I think captures quite effecti...Your comment, Anon, I think captures quite effectively the conundrum Canadians face as they go to the polls. Time and time again, we have been disappointed by those we elect; their repeated failures to live up to the expectations they raise during their campaigns are stark and depressing. <br /><br />Truth seems to be such a fluid and malleable concept for most politicians, and it is hard not to be cynical about democracy these days.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-61293393627480007742015-09-30T15:15:52.317-04:002015-09-30T15:15:52.317-04:00You speak for me too. I also voted Liberal in the ...You speak for me too. I also voted Liberal in the Provincial election despite my unhappiness with what McGuinty had done (Orange scandal, G8/G20, etc.). Like you, I had felt Wynne was a person of integrity and I was also unhappy with Horwath/NDP for opportunistically triggering the election. Hudak and Cons were out of the question as it must have been for you too.<br /><br />BTW, it is for almost the same reason that I hesitate to vote Liberal in my riding even though the Liberal candidate is more likely than the NDP candidate to beat the Harper candidate. Justin Trudeau's blatant denial at the Foreign policy debate that he had ever suggested that he and the Liberals were only supporting Bill C-51 because they were afraid of Harper accusing them of being soft on terrorism further evoked this feeling of mistrust of the Liberals again.<br /><br />Trudeau even had the gall to defend the indefensible on supporting C-51 and then had a bigger gall to deny the public reports that he had suggested to U.B.C. students that he would have voted differently on C-51 had it not been an election year. The latter actually made me wonder how much one can trust Trudeau despite his claiming to tell things honestly (for example, in regard to having to run a deficit). If he can apparently lie so blatantly on C-51, what are the chances he is not lying on other important issues, eh? <br /><br />Thus, I am thinking a pox on strategic voting. I am thinking that I should vote for the NDP, my preferred choice because of C-51, and a few other issues, and forget about voting for the Liberal just to beat the Cons and then later wondering, as in this case with Wynne, whether it was really worth it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com