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T'Chenka
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« on: June 13, 2019, 11:39:48 PM »

Let's get money out of politics altogether, and make senate and congress jobs much more meaningful and impactful but less lucrative.

Sanders 2020
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T'Chenka
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2019, 12:51:31 PM »

We have one in Canada.

Conservative = Republican
Liberal = Democrat
New Democrats = further left than Democrats
Green = Far left and environmentalism

...and it seems like literally half the people that want to vote NDP always vote Liberal or Conservative because they think NDP is a "wasted vote". If they all stopped thinking this way, it wouldn't be a waste at all. NDP usually gets 20 to 40 percent in every election (provincially and nationally).

It's VERY frustrating for Canadian progressives.
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T'Chenka
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2019, 02:03:02 PM »

We have one in Canada.

Conservative = Republican
Liberal = Democrat
New Democrats = further left than Democrats
Green = Far left and environmentalism

...and it seems like literally half the people that want to vote NDP always vote Liberal or Conservative because they think NDP is a "wasted vote". If they all stopped thinking this way, it wouldn't be a waste at all. NDP usually gets 20 to 40 percent in every election (provincially and nationally).

It's VERY frustrating for Canadian progressives.

Hey, look at the Brexit Party and Lib Dems in the UK and how they have literally leveled the playing field.
It's even more frustrating to see the system work in Europe and not work in North America. It's a cultural thing I guess? I know Americans will never have a Libertarian or Green president, at least not for decades.
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T'Chenka
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2019, 01:08:52 PM »

Very little gets accomplished under a divided government. It's simple as that.  The only exceptions to this are Massachusetts, Vermont, Maryland, and Louisiana.

that's a good thing though. the government shouldn't be doing stuff
Well, you certainly are a product of the American education system that you don't want to fund.
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