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Watching the Federal Conservative race and the Ontario election I would say that the various mainstream Conservative parties are self-provoking. And it's inter
by jleyank 4y ago
Watching the Federal Conservative race and the Ontario election I would say that the various mainstream Conservative parties are self-provoking. And it's interesting to see that they might be attacked from the right so as to split the Right/Centre vote as the NDP and Liberals split the Left/Centre vote. The existence of the NDP is a wonderful thing for the Cons, and it's only fair that the Cons get to fight over "their" votes as well.
- version_five 4y agoDefinitely self provoking, because the conservative party / parties overlap policy-wise with the liberals (and probably NDP). For example Charest would be indistinguishable from the Liberals on a lot of policies, as would Doug Ford. Unfortunately the actual "conservative" elements usually have some other ideological hangups that make them impossible as mainstream choices. But I'd rather support a slightly politically unpalatable further right conservative that won't take power than see all the parties just converge to some sort of centre-left unprincipled thing and have no different voices in the discussion, like in the last federal election.