When (if) you vote think about what it is supposed to mean. Keep in mind what it means for someone to represent you.
If you are voting for the leader of the party then you are not voting for someone to represent you. You are voting for someone to represent Canada.
If you vote strategically, then you are not voting for someone you want to represent your interests and, likely, they never will.
If you vote for someone whose leader silences the Members of Parliament, then you are not voting for someone to represent you.
If you vote for someone who always votes along party lines, even when the constituents disagree, then you do not have a representative.
If you vote for someone because you it is “your” party, then you are not wanting someone to represent you; You want a club to be in.
If you vote for someone because of a single issue, then you do not believe in a representative democracy.
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Partisan politics have no place in a real representative democracy.
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Maybe they don’t.
Unfortunately, most of us live in a real world, and the First Past the Post system that forces this onto all of us exists.
You can ignore it for starry-eyed idealism if you want.
Or you can realize that the world doesn’t give a shit about your idealism and work to make the best results you can in an imperfect situation.
Which reality do you not accept in your little world? I fail to understand your comment. I think I understand the crux of it, despite the confusing and frustrated syntax.
The fact that it is a representative democracy where the elected are supposed to represent the constituents?
The fact that strategic voting undermines the above idea?
The fact that a silenced MP cannot present your issues or represent you?
The fact that an MP who does not listen to the constituents is not a good representative?
The fact that a party is only good because similar interests are strongest when bound together, but if your representative does not represent you then your are not represented?
The fact that single issue voters do not care about Canada, they care about themselves?
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