"Mad Max our Best Hope?"

He would have to be capable of winning an election in order to be of any hope for Canada. But he can't even win his own seat.

Also, don't be fooled by people who seem to promise you everything your heart desires in terms of policy. Not if you're a right-winger in a predominantly left-wing country, meaning concessions have to made to centrist swing-voters if you want any chance of winning an election.

If you're a fringe minority politically speaking and some fringe party leader comes along promising to cater to your views to the letter even though such a platform would have zero chance of succeeding in an election, that means he's just looking for donations and has no intention of actually winning any election. In other words, a charlatan. A snake-oil salesman. Someone who profits by tricking suckers into forking their money over to him in exchange for empty promises he knows he can never deliver on.

If something seems too good to be true (like a radical right-wing party promising to re-align Canada to the right when the vast majority of Canadians are leftists) it probably is.

Max is paying himself $100k from donations a year to be the "PPC party leader", which has no real duties whatsoever. Apparently he doesn't even do his own tweeting. He just collects donations for himself and pays someone to tweet the occasional incendiary comment to keep his handful of supporters fired up and mailing cheques in. All that requires to succeed as a business model is for there to be enough suckers who will like being told what they want to hear enough to send a cheque to Max once in a while. That's all this whole PPC thing is. It's closer to TV evangelism than a legit political endeavor.

Max and the PPC have no future in Canadian politics. That is an inalienable fact that everyone needs to come to terms with. To not understand this belies a fundamental lack of understanding of how politics and elections work.

See, even if the politics Max is selling were to become wildly popular in Canada, he'd still have no chance of winning an election. Because in that circumstance, the CPC voter base would elect a party leader that reflect those politics, and then the CPC would be a major party offering that type of platform, which would render the PPC irrelevant. That's why unlike the PPC, real parties have leadership elections. It's so that the party can keep up with the shifting wants of the voter base. Real parties don't assert a platform and then just keep the same leader forever. That's how you fall into irrelevance (if you're lucky enough to even be relevant in the first place).

Now, cue the PPC name-calling, since that's the only way they can respond to what I've explained above.

"Mad Max our Best Hope?"

He would have to be capable of winning an election in order to be of any hope for Canada. But he can't even win his own seat.

Also, don't be fooled by people who seem to promise you everything your heart desires in terms of policy. Not if you're a right-winger in a predominantly left-wing country, meaning concessions have to made to centrist swing-voters if you want any chance of winning an election.

If you're a fringe minority politically speaking and some fringe party leader comes along promising to cater to your views to the letter even though such a platform would have zero chance of succeeding in an election, that means he's just looking for donations and has no intention of actually winning any election. In other words, a charlatan. A snake-oil salesman. Someone who profits by tricking suckers into forking their money over to him in exchange for empty promises he knows he can never deliver on.

If something seems too good to be true (like a radical right-wing party promising to re-align Canada to the right when the vast majority of Canadians are leftists) it probably is.

Max is paying himself $100k from donations a year to be the "PPC party leader", which has no real duties whatsoever. Apparently he doesn't even do his own tweeting. He just collects donations for himself and pays someone to tweet the occasional incendiary comment to keep his handful of supporters fired up and mailing cheques in. All that requires to succeed as a business model is for there to be enough suckers who will like being told what they want to hear enough to send a cheque to Max once in a while. That's all this whole PPC thing is. It's closer to TV evangelism than a legit political endeavor.

Max and the PPC have no future in Canadian politics. That is an inalienable fact that everyone needs to come to terms with. To not understand this belies a fundamental lack of understanding of how politics and elections work.

See, even if the politics Max is selling were to become wildly popular in Canada, he'd still have no chance of winning an election. Because in that circumstance, the CPC voter base would elect a party leader that reflect those politics, and then the CPC would be a major party offering that type of platform, which would render the PPC irrelevant. That's why unlike the PPC, real parties have leadership elections. It's so that the party can keep up with the shifting wants of the voter base. Real parties don't assert a platform and then just keep the same leader forever. That's how you fall into irrelevance (if you're lucky enough to even be relevant in the first place).

"Mad Max our Best Hope?"

He would have to be capable of winning an election in order to be of any hope for Canada. But he can't even win his own seat.

Also, don't be fooled by people who seem to promise you everything your heat desires in terms of policy. Not if you're a right-winger in a predominantly left-wing country, meaning concessions have to made to centrist swing-voters if you want any chance of winning an election.

If you're a fringe minority politically speaking and some fringe party leader comes along promising to cater to your views to the letter even though such a platform would have zero chance of succeeding in an election, that means he's just looking for donations and has no intention of actually winning any election. In other words, a charlatan. A snake-oil salesman. Someone who profits by tricking suckers into forking their money over to him in exchange for empty promises he knows he can never deliver on.

If something seems too good to be true (like a radical right-wing party promising to re-align Canada to the right when the vast majority of Canadians are leftists) it probably is.

Max is paying himself $100k from donations a year to be the "PPC party leader", which has no real duties whatsoever. Apparently he doesn't even do his own tweeting. He just collects donations for himself and pays someone to tweet the occasional incendiary comment to keep his handful of supporters fired up and mailing cheques in. All that requires to succeed as a business model is for there to be enough suckers who will like being told what they want to hear enough to send a cheque to Max once in a while. That's all this whole PPC thing is. It's closer to TV evangelism than a legit political endeavor.

Max and the PPC have no future in Canadian politics. That is an inalienable fact that everyone needs to come to terms with. To not understand this belies a fundamental lack of understanding of how politics and elections work.

See, even if the politics Max is selling were to become wildly popular in Canada, he'd still have no chance of winning an election. Because in that circumstance, the CPC voter base would elect a party leader that reflect those politics, and then the CPC would be a major party offering that type of platform, which would render the PPC irrelevant. That's why unlike the PPC, real parties have leadership elections. It's so that the party can keep up with the shifting wants of the voter base. Real parties don't assert a platform and then just keep the same leader forever. That's how you fall into irrelevance (if you're lucky enough to even be relevant in the first place).

"Mad Max our Best Hope?"

He would have to be capable of winning an election in order to be of any hope for Canada. But he can't even win his own seat.

Also, don't be fooled by people who seem to promise you everything your heat desires in terms of policy. Not if you're a a right-winger in a predominantly left-wing country, meaning concessions have to made to centrist swing-voters if you want any chance of winning an election.

If you're a fringe minority politically speaking and some fringe party leader comes along promising to cater to your views to the letter even though such a platform would have zero chance of succeeding in an election, that means he's just looking for donations and has no intention of actually winning any election. In other words, a charlatan. A snake-oil salesman. Someone who profits by tricking suckers into forking their money over to him in exchange for empty promises he knows he can never deliver on.

If something seems too good to be true (like a radical right-wing party promising to re-align Canada to the right when the vast majority of Canadians are leftists) it probably is.

Max is paying himself $100k from donations a year to be the "PPC party leader", which has no real duties whatsoever. Apparently he doesn't even do his own tweeting. He just collects donations for himself and pays someone to tweet the occasional incendiary comment to keep his handful of supporters fired up and mailing cheques in. All that requires to succeed as a business model is for there to be enough suckers who will like being told what they want to hear enough to send a cheque to Max once in a while. That's all this whole PPC thing is. It's closer to TV evangelism than a legit political endeavor.

Max and the PPC have no future in Canadian politics. That is an inalienable fact that everyone needs to come to terms with. To not understand this belies a fundamental lack of understanding of how politics and elections work.

See, even if the politics Max is selling were to become wildly popular in Canada, he'd still have no chance of winning an election. Because in that circumstance, the CPC voter base would elect a party leader that reflect those politics, and then the CPC would be a major party offering that type of platform, which would render the PPC irrelevant. That's why unlike the PPC, real parties have leadership elections. It's so that the party can keep up with the shifting wants of the voter base. Real parties don't assert a platform and then just keep the same leader forever. That's how you fall into irrelevance (if you're lucky enough to even be relevant in the first place).