If politics is "the art of the possible," then we're going to have to accept that Canadian voters are not yet informed enough to see that both the Liberals and the harpercons are useless, and we're going to have to play the hand that's been dealt to us.
ETA: I added this in the comments section:
I can't stand the Liberal Party but it isn't going to go anywhere and many of its supporters (especially the bloggers i read) are decent people. By all means, if we have to get rid of Iggy to do this, maybe they could find another Stephane Dion, we should do this. As intolerable as the empty-rhetoric Liberalism of Paul Martin was, it is even more intolerable that we live in a country where stephen harper is within sight of a majority government.
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may well be true but Iggy is not interested in forming a coalition with "socialists" and back stopped by "separatists".
And thus where we are now is because the libs decided to pull the plug in January on a coalition.
If that is true, then why wasn't there a non-con vote the day after the last election, with an immediate coalition of Dion/Layton/Bloc? It would be true the day after that, and the day after that, and so on.
All the posturing is fine, its part of the game, but the other truth with that is the Canadian Public got spooked, and the Cons did this well, by the concept of an "illegitimate" government. The party that would suffer most by going ahead with something that did not have wide popular support would be the Liberals.
What the Bloc, NDP and Libs should be doing right now is laying the groundwork for enough good will between all three to successfully work with a minority Liberal government, which is what the outcome of the next election will be if you balance "likely" and "least worst for Canada"
@Anonymous: I don't see much hope for "good will" between the Libs and the NDP or BQ as long as Iggy is Lib Leader. He has poisoned the well.
Anonymous,
"What the Bloc, NDP and Libs should be doing right now is laying the groundwork for enough good will between all three to successfully work with a minority Liberal government, which is what the outcome of the next election will be if you balance 'likely' and 'least worst for Canada'"
I agree entirely. I can't stand the Liberal Party but it isn't going to go anywhere and many of its supporters (especially the bloggers i read) are decent people.
By all means, if we have to get rid of Iggy to do this, maybe they could find another Stephane Dion, we should do this.
As intolerable as the empty-rhetoric Liberalism of Paul Martin was, it is even more intolerable that we live in a country where stephen harper is within sight of a majority government.
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