Yzermandius19

Yeah, I'm sure the NDP and Greens will form a coalition with the Conservatives, and I'm sure the PPC would form a coalition with the left leaning parties, that's totally going to happen. It's all up in the air, there is no telling who the loser parties prefer, or who their voters prefer, no indication whatsoever. Definitely can't make any assumptions about that. /sarcasm Listen to yourself, you can't honestly believe the nonsense you peddle. There is no chance any party outside the big 2 wins, even under proportional representation, either the Liberals or Conservatives have won the popular vote in every Canadian Federal Election with zero exceptions, and no third party has even come close to changing that. There is only one exception where the Liberals or Conservatives didn't both finish in the top two of the popular vote in 1993, and that was with a split Conservative party. Only one Conservative popular vote majority since the NDP came along, in 1984, when the Quebec popular vote went majority Conservative for one of the only two times in Canadian federal election history, both under Mulroney and never before or since. The Conservatives haven't won in Quebec since, and almost always lost in Quebec before that.

Go look at all the past federal elections, and note how many would result in a Conservative majority under PR. These assumptions are based on the historical record that you are oblivious to. Only 1984 would have been a Conservative majority since the NDP came along. 1958 would have been a Conservative majority, 1917 as well, and that's it. Only three instances of a Conservative winning the majority of the popular vote in Canadian federal election history, and since the NDP came along, it has only happened once, and will likely never happen again. Since 1984 the Conservatives have cracked 40% of the popular vote just once. None of their extremely rare popular vote majorities would have been large majorities under PR, they would all have been by the skin of their teeth. It would almost always be a minority government that can't get anything done, or a coalition that never works in the Conservatives favor. If Canada were to switch to PR, The Conservatives would never get a majority again, and majorities would be rare even for the Liberals, they'd have to cobble them together through a coalition most of the time. You just paralyzed the country and will subject it to so many more useless elections, great job.

One outlier does not disprove the rule. Best case scenario Conservatives win two extra seats with no PPC, still far short of a majority, under most scenarios they would lose more seats than they gain, and the left would not have to worry about vote splitting. Conservatives could never form a coalition that results in a majority government and the left could, that results in perpetual leftist rule with the occasional short lived soft as baby sh*t Conservative minority, that would have to cuck even harder to get anything done the Conservatives already do under FPTP. It's not paranoia, it's math.

PR simply speeds up the process, the virtue signalling will be juicing hard on the Russian Gas, with less conservative enemies to fight. So the left will turn on itself all the more, calling anyone to the right of Fidel Castro a "White Supremacist Nazi" and doubling down on self-defeating derp.

When you have no enemies, there is no one to fight but yourself. Canada living under the protection of America, who has had no real challenger since the fall of the Soviet Union, has made it soft and looking for boogeymen to slay in it's own midst, hence it eating it's own.

Canada doesn't just have leftist cancer, Canada is the cancer, Confederation is Walter White.

Starving the beast through gluttony, resulting in consuming the entire food supply of the beast they are so dependent on. They are speeding up the slaughtering of their sacred cows, and they don't even know it. The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money, Maggie Thatcher Knows.

They want a boring safe space where they need not listen to anyone who disagrees and no one tells them how impossible it is to achieve the utopia they envision. They view the government as a parent, and they grew up in an environment where the parents always tried to shelter them from the harshness of reality, which is why government helicopter mommy is their knee-jerk solution for every problem, because they never had to handle any on their own. That's where PR comes in indeed, a safer space with less people being realpolitik and telling them their utopia can't happen, which they can't handle with a giant dose of cognitive dissonance. With PR there will also be more NPC's telling them what they want to hear and who also view government helicopter mommy as the "solution" to all the world's problems.

They don't want interesting, they want nothing bad to ever happen in the world ever. They believe that government helicopter mommy can provide that for them, if they had their choice, they'd nerf the world, which is why they try to do that whenever possible.

Realpolitik is too depressing for them, so as a defense mechanism, they cling to fairies and unicorns instead. Which they have mistaken for The Vampire Squids, simply because they are willing to blow sunshine up their ass and not tell them unpopular truths they don't want to hear, plus they have no attention span and are easily distracted by jingly keys.

Wishful thinking is a helluva drug, reality can be harsh. So they'd rather live in world shaped by the former than the later, and hang themselves in the futile effort to enforce wishful thinking on reality.

With uber counterproductive enemies like this, who needs friends? Donald Trump Knows.

Their complete overreaction to the religious right has made them into the very thing they claim to revile so much in their political opposition, they just have zero self awareness and are oblivious to this fact.

Pathologically self righteous, totally convinced of their utter moral superiority, out to get anybody who dissents from their dogma is only bad when it comes from the christian right to these clowns. Obvious double standard is obvious.

Yet you only support this policy if someone else is doing the killing for you. How brave, lulz. Prohibition didn't work, and you want to double down on the derp and side with Saudi Arabian tyranny, as long as you don't have to get your hands dirty and it's someone else's job. You will just make the drug problem worse with your proposed "solution", and everyone else has to live in a Drug Warrior Prohibitionist Tyranny on top of it, just to pander to your delusions, good job.

Indeed. Especially with multiple parties splitting the vote, cat herding do nothing governments that like to virtue signal how they are superior because they are a debating club that rules by elite consensus, while ignoring the will of the rural population and denying them proper representation because of popular vote percentages. Rule of a committee for the fail, FPTP is the obvious lesser evil here, the lefties simply want to silence the conservatives by boxing them out with PR, it isn't paranoid if they are out to get you.

It's more viable in geographically small homogeneous countries with a high population density, but even there it still has the same problems, just on a smaller scale that is easier to deal with. People who idolize such countries as the model for every nation in the rest of the world are being silly by trying to push PR on a geographically huge heterogeneous country with a small population density though.

That's PR's only utility, being corrosive to confederation. But it's only so corrosive because of how terrible of an idea it is.

It's not paranoia if they are out to get you, and reality can be harsh. It's not healthy to be so naive and positive when reality doesn't reflect those assumptions. PR does not make very vote equal, it invalidates the votes of people in rural ridings in favor of those in urban ridings. You want urban representatives for the rural ridings, because of something as silly as the percentage of vote nationwide. PR is stupid, especially in a country as geographically diverse as Canada, with a small population density such as Canada, with many different interests in different regions that need to represented aside from the elite consensus of the big cities ruling for everyone else.

Not seeing how forcing people to swear oaths that they have no intention of following is going to do any good whatsoever. /shrugs

al-Baghdadi killed in a raid apparently. Trump gets a symbolic foreign policy win like Obama with OBL, if true.

Eh oh, cannuck. If you can't win the War on Drugs with an absolute tyranny, how the hell are you going to win it? Not only won't you win it, no matter how much you crackdown on it, but you just imposed brutal repression just to fail real hard, good job. They can't even win the War on Drugs in prisons, so stop doubling down on derp.

That's what the Notwithstanding Clause is for. Try and stop Quebec and they will simply invoke Section 33.

Soma is The Telescreen. The Telescreen is Soma. A Huxley-Orwellian Dystopic Fusion.

That's the part that Huxley nailed to a tee.