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Completely different. We’re talking preference - not absolute like/dislike. I was responding to someone saying they’d never vote liberal again. I am not asking if they like PP, just if they’d prefer PP over a liberal. So if the choice is liberal or PP, it is a salient question whether they prefer PP over a liberal. If they’d prefer a liberal over PP when those are the only viable options, then not to vote liberal is confusing, at best. So it’s a relevant question.
You’re still construing said line of questioning out of thin air. There’s nothing concrete in the relevant comment to imply that you need to question whether they would prefer Poilievre over any other candidate, rhetorically or otherwise. (Besides, what is the functional difference between like and dislike vs. personal preference in this case? That’s a pedantic point at best and at worst a completely useless one.)
Additionally, why are you presuming that Liberals and Conservatives are the only viable options? Isn’t the whole point of having a wide variety of candidates like we do so you never feel pressured into only one or two options? Sure, you can say there would never be enough votes for, say, the NDP or Green Party for them to win a majority; but there’s still no inherent responsibility of any one voter for those parties to choose another because of that, and much more a societally ubiquitous/systemic issue. If one is forced, by circumstance or otherwise, into picking one or the other candidate out of many, then there are much bigger and more “salient” (as you put it) problems at hand than just which of those choices one prefers.
I’m all for minority governments and voting in greens or ndp etc., but often in a particular riding, there is only liberals or conservatives that have a chance. In that particular (common) case, if the original commenter would ‘never vote liberal again’ I just want to know if that’s because they prefer to help PP’s party become the government by not voting against their getting a seat, or if they just haven’t thought that through. It’s important to think through. It would be really bad to have a PP government.
Continue to vote for principled candidates and parties that reflect your values while organizing in your community to advocate for voter reform to introduce policies like proportional representation and ranked choice voting.
Completely different. We’re talking preference - not absolute like/dislike. I was responding to someone saying they’d never vote liberal again. I am not asking if they like PP, just if they’d prefer PP over a liberal. So if the choice is liberal or PP, it is a salient question whether they prefer PP over a liberal. If they’d prefer a liberal over PP when those are the only viable options, then not to vote liberal is confusing, at best. So it’s a relevant question.
You’re still construing said line of questioning out of thin air. There’s nothing concrete in the relevant comment to imply that you need to question whether they would prefer Poilievre over any other candidate, rhetorically or otherwise. (Besides, what is the functional difference between like and dislike vs. personal preference in this case? That’s a pedantic point at best and at worst a completely useless one.)
Additionally, why are you presuming that Liberals and Conservatives are the only viable options? Isn’t the whole point of having a wide variety of candidates like we do so you never feel pressured into only one or two options? Sure, you can say there would never be enough votes for, say, the NDP or Green Party for them to win a majority; but there’s still no inherent responsibility of any one voter for those parties to choose another because of that, and much more a societally ubiquitous/systemic issue. If one is forced, by circumstance or otherwise, into picking one or the other candidate out of many, then there are much bigger and more “salient” (as you put it) problems at hand than just which of those choices one prefers.
I’m all for minority governments and voting in greens or ndp etc., but often in a particular riding, there is only liberals or conservatives that have a chance. In that particular (common) case, if the original commenter would ‘never vote liberal again’ I just want to know if that’s because they prefer to help PP’s party become the government by not voting against their getting a seat, or if they just haven’t thought that through. It’s important to think through. It would be really bad to have a PP government.
That’s called a “false dichotomy”.
What’s your other option then?
Continue to vote for principled candidates and parties that reflect your values while organizing in your community to advocate for voter reform to introduce policies like proportional representation and ranked choice voting.