Mike Morrice🟢 on Bluesky
Thank you Lilly and Sara for your steadfast support - it means so much.
Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 on Bluesky
We always hear the question of whether Conservatives can break into Toronto, but, there are already hundreds of thousands of Conservative voters there. First-past-the-post shuts them out.
Proportional representation ensures every vote counts, everywhere.
we’ll need people with all sorts of different political ideologies to get onboard if we’re ever going have a shot at implementing some form of PR.
I wholeheartedly agree.
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p.s. I hope we stop this childish behaviour of downvoting people we disagree with. I only down vote if I genuinely feel they are acting in bad faith (and I didn't downvote this post either).
I appreciate your pragmatism, but let me approach this differently.
You're suggesting we need to work "within the boundaries of things as they are" - but that's precisely how we've been trapped in this cycle for over a century. Since 1919, generations of Canadians have made the exact same strategic calculation you're making now. The result? A democracy that's growing increasingly dysfunctional.
This isn't about ideology - it's about results. The "realistic" approach you advocate has been tried for decades and has consistently failed to deliver reform. At what point do we acknowledge that this strategy simply doesn't work?
Consider that 76% of Canadians support proportional representation. The barrier isn't popular will - it's political inertia.
Strategic voting creates a psychological trap where we're perpetually choosing "the lesser evil" while never building momentum for the change most Canadians actually want. It's like staying in an unhealthy relationship because you're afraid of being alone.
Look at countries like New Zealand that successfully transitioned to PR. They didn't get there through incremental compromise - they built momentum for real change.
I'm not asking half the population to change overnight. I'm suggesting that those who already believe in PR should vote their conscience. If even a quarter of strategic voters did this consistently, we'd create the political pressure needed for reform.
Sometimes the "realistic" path forward requires breaking old patterns that have consistently failed us. Isn't continuing to do the same thing while expecting different results the definition of insanity?
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