I have to laugh at all these half baked plans that are suddenly springing up in the leftmost corners of Canadian society seeking to 'guarantee' the Conservative party loses, or at least only manages a minority win.
You've got Greens strategically voting for Liberals, Liberals strategically voting for the NDP, and the NDP seeming to go along with these farces while secretly and strategically planning to vote for themselves. What fun!
I really wish the Left would unite. Go ahead... Lay out your big socialist plan to provide for every conceivable grievance.
As it is, a small proportion of the electorate thinks that the Earth is dying, and the only way to resuscitate her, is to vote green. Another small proportion of the electorate are just dyed in the wool socialists and closet communists, whose only chance of ever seeing a great Marxist utopia north of the 49th parallel is to throw everything they've got behind Jack Layton's mustache.
However, what has been repeatedly proven throughout the last 40 years of this Trudeaupian experiment formerly known as The Dominion of Canada, is that the people who PAY for all the social programs in this country, are NOT the same people who benefit from them. As such, these hard working tax payers realize that without them, the whole game comes crashing down.
Anybody who believes that "Left" (higher taxes, more welfare, bigger government, endless tinkering with programs that work until they eventually don't) is what Canadians want, and the direction that is best for Canada, is really living in a dream world.
So go ahead... Vote strategically you fools. Do whatever your pointy little heads think is the sure fire plan to ensure the destruction of the evil Conservative Mastermind Harper and his legion of equally evil, hidden agendaists.
Just understand that all the material things in your life that you currently enjoy, the food that is grown and transported magically to the store on the corner, the clothes on your back, the subway cars that take you back and forth to your community activist meetings, and just about everything else, are all provided by evil corporations and independent businessmen, who if they aren't given a bit of a taxation break soon, can't be faulted for closing up shop and putting all you useless, whining, socialists into the position of fending for yourselves.
Personally, I think Canada could recover fairly quickly from a 4 year flirtation with a far left government, look at Ontario and how long it took Mike Harris to successfully undo the damage caused by Bob Rae... But it would be very painful for a hell of a lot of people, and just might be the lesson that needs to be learned on a National level to put an end to the incessant whining and screeching from the rabble rousing cheerleaders of global communism.
Scarbarian
