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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You receive:

A fascist government
Loss of sovereignty

'Cause the Greens aren't going to win, but they will make it easier for the Conservatives to win.

[+] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca -20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] u_vexii@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is anything they said false? Does this comment help anything? Do you feel better for having made it?

[+] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Voting in a way that leads to the Conservatives getting a majority government leads to fascism. Due to the combination of a party system and first past the post voting, unless you can convince Liberal and NDP voters to all vote Green, voting for them likely means that the party competing against the Conservatives in your riding won’t get your vote, which means the vote has virtually no impact.

That does depend on your riding though; in ridings where there’s no chance of Conservatives winning, sure, vote Green.

And then there’s ridings like mine where the Conservatives are almost guaranteed to win and Greens aren’t even running a candidate. I’d run myself, but at this point I’d rather take the slim chance that the Liberals can finally unseat the Conservative candidate who’s been our MP for over a decade.

Greens have a great platform. And that means that everyone with money and power is going to do all they can to keep them from winning seats.

[+] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

It's typically a question of who is available in the riding to run. And then they need to make it through the vetting process. And then they need to collect the signatures and deposit. And then they need to fill out the paperwork and submit it to Elections Canada.

It's a lot of effort, just to be a name on a ballot.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

They're running a candidate in mine....but I'm not sure that's actually better. Guy has no experience, which isn't necessarily horrible...gotta start somewhere. He has no internet presence other than his green party page. His green party page is only accessable by web search, it's not linked to anywhere on the green party page. There's almost no blurb on his page. One line saying that he grew up in Vancouver, and then a paragraph of literally just the party standard line....my riding isn't in Vancouver.... it's close by, but a different city.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Sign me the heck up!

[+] Claymore@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you imagine how many votes a party could get if every single person who said "I don't want to burn my vote" voted how they wanted instead of being convinced to vote "strategically"?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you imagine how wonderful the world would be if the world worked how we hoped it did instead of how it actually did?

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 months ago

Please explain, how does the world actually work?

I have some free time while deep diving my riding's Liberal Candidate so don't feel rushed to respond.

[–] Claymore@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

sorry

edit: As a compromise, I'll go support our local proportional representation movement, and the points provided are adequate that I'll vote green.

I hate first past the post, because I wish I didn't have to grapple with dilemma this in the first place.

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 months ago

Your behavior is very strange.

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