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darkknight109 posted...

That happens up here. Canada is a fairly left-wing nation, so in any given election about 60-70% of our electorate votes for centre-left or left-wing candidates. The Conservatives only ever win because the left-wing vote is fractured amongst four major parties (the Liberals, the NDP, the Bloc Quebecois, and the Greens) whereas they have spent the last couple decades with no one to compete against on the right (though the PPC is now gaining ground as a hard-right party, which is both sad for its commentary on our politics at present and amusing because it will only hurt the Conservatives by splitting the already-small right-wing vote). We used to have two major right-wing parties - the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party (later the Canadian Alliance) - but they merged in the early 2000s to form the Conservative Party.

See, that shit would piss me off and make me feel the election was stolen, if 60-70% vote left of center and a right wing party wins.

People bitch about America's 2 party system b/c they're poorly educated. That's the natural end result of First Past the Post voting, the actual problem. I'd sooner vote for the lesser evil than see the diametrically opposite political party sweep into office with a mandate of *checks notes* 30% of the vote.

Just, when I saw that post stating the election was between Trudeau and Singh, my bull shit detector went off, "hey wait a minute..." That's the kind of rhetoric and framing that leads to right-wing minority rule, telling people it's a contest between two liberals...