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Originally Posted by Acajack
BTW I understand the need for capital to keep the economy rolling and that the very wealthy are a critical source of that capital.
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I agree that this is currently the case, but only because so much of society's wealth is controlled by so few people currently. I strongly disagree that this is is in any way a necessary condition. If the very wealthy didn't control such a disproportionate amount of wealth, then obviously they'd be a less critical source of capital.
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Fair enough.
I just hope O'Toole does well enough in this election to avoid a purge, and to stay around long enough to put more of a stamp on the party at the riding level. The changes will be incremental.
If however voters remain determined to punish Stephen Harper (seven years later), then O'Toole will be gone and polarized politics will return.
Is this what we want? If you truly want to support change, and to avoid US style polarized politics in this country, then vote for O'Toole. If you want a Canadian style Republican Party to rise from the ashes, then cast your ballot for JT or Singh........
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A "first-past-the-post" system always exerts a consolidating force on an electorate which eventually leads to a polarized coalescence down to a two party duopoly. We're lucky (and quite unusual) to still have other fairly large parties under FPTP, but only the two leading parties have ever formed government. If people wants to change this, the only real option is to vote for a party that supports electoral reform toward some form of proportional representation. The Conservative party, at least historically, is not one of them.
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