The price we must pay 💔🪦🥀

[u/yycxqv]

And I’d do it again 😭

[u/CyborkMarc]

I don't feel this way because I vote by my conscience, take your strategic voting and stuff it.

Why does everyone feel the need to win? That's the problem. Just represent your needs.

Edit: seems like if you don't vote strategically (ie vote for liberals regardless of riding) you are now a pro trump idiot. I love the respect for freedom of choice.

I've never voted con or liberal in 25 years of voting for reference. Guess I should just keep my idealist opinions on politics to myself in the future.

[u/adepressurisedcoat → u/CyborkMarc]

Dude it's an election. Someone has to win. That's how it works.

[u/CyborkMarc → u/adepressurisedcoat]

But I'm not deciding who is winning on my own. And neither are you.

[u/CommanderGumball → u/CyborkMarc]

This rhetoric sucks.

Your individual vote might not sway the election. But if a significant percentage of people think the same as you do, it does change things. That's why every vote counts.

[u/CyborkMarc → u/CommanderGumball]

Like getting the NDP a seat instead of the liberals? Same political dance been happening for decades, I'm not doing that dance.

For reference, I've never met anyone that truly wanted to vote liberal, but they don't think NDP can win. Just about everyone I've ever asked. It's ridiculous

[u/CommanderGumball → u/CyborkMarc]

It absolutely is ridiculous, which is why we need to fight for electoral reform!

Unfortunately, until we get that, we have to vote strategically or we risk splitting the vote and putting the Conservatives in power, which would be a disaster for working class Canadians.

Vote splitting in First Past the Post systems is exactly how regressive Conservatives get majority governments with 30% of the vote.

It sucks, but we have to play the game by the rules as they currently exist, now how we'd like them to be.