I decided not to make the same mistake as last time so I joined the Conservative Party so I can vote for the leader. I watched the "debate" the other day and it was pretty weak, they were all poor speakers and didn't really say anything different from each other. What are your thoughts on the candidates?
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Traditionally Canadian elections were won by owning the center. You need votes in that Quebec - Windsor Axis or you'll never have a majority. Harper owned that center when he got a majority, but then started edging further to the right the longer he was in power.
The next election though... I have no clue. Trudeau got elected even after blackface, SNC, and all the ethics violations. They literally bribed the press to keep them on a leash, and nobody is bating and eyelash.
We might be completly fucked at this point unless somebody at the CPC finds a way to break the Liberal stranglehold on the media.
That's where the thinking is wrong, Canadian elections are won by motivating non-voters and getting them to participate.
If "no one, I'm not bothering" was a political party they'd have won every election of my lifetime.
Just think of how many potheads have voted precisely twice in their lives and both times for Big Trudy. How much did that boost him?
Motivating voters to come out for a candidate is the winning path, not getting all milquetoast and appealing to the centre. We saw how that worked with Scheer and Ignatieff. It doesn't.
Harper's rise was entirely due to motivating the fringes. He was an extreme figure at the time. Nothing will be accomplished by courting the centre.