We're electing a new prime minister tomorrow. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ?

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23. The NDP works best with the Liberals.

NDP doesn't work at all with the Conservatives.

Harper wouldn't have won the last election except the Liberals ran with Michael Ignatieff. That's (I imagine) something a bit like if the Dems decide to run with Hillary. Ignatieff had/has very very iffy connections, even iffier ideas (indistinguishable from the cons on economics and war - allied with them). He didn't connect with Liberals or "the left", and esp. with the more socialist/labor oriented NDP. So they didn't show up to vote. It *matters* to the Liberals whether the typical NDP oriented voter *likes* the Liberal leader and the Liberal platform! The typical NDP voter who's breast-fed on the idea of "strategic voting" for the most likely NDP/Liberal candidate refused en masse to vote for Ignatieff, for his candidates. "Strategic voting" didn't happen.

I don't know if I expressed that very well...

Harper is a corporate tool through and through, exceptionally bad for the environment, and IMO that's like "the canary in the coalmine" indicating how he rules on other issues, any issue related to money, or war, or sucking up to the USofA. Money, investment capital, comes before the planet. IMO over the longer term it's better for Canada that Ignatieff didn't win, didn't have a chance to establish his kind of politics as a new Liberal standard, didn't have a chance to put his kind of people in prominent places, in gov't and in the party. And now we're seeing hope in this election where Ignatieff is GONE. VANISHED. By losing, he cleared the Liberal deck of that kind of third-way type nonsense.

I'm quite hopeful going into tomorrow's election.