Election Venting

I don't want to start a political debate here, but I have to vent.

It sickens me how people have acted in this campaign.

At the beginning of the campaign, people picked, or already had picked, a party. Then, for the duration of the election, they viewed all events through the eyes of said party and reacted to the event along party lines. No one is thinking for themselves.

It's like the millions of dollars spent campaigning are garbage, because just about everyone made their choice within the first week.

It's like bothering to write an election platform is garbage, because if the liberals and conservatives switched platforms tomorrow no one would budge an inch from their choices. (Well, okay, maybe 10 people.)

I dare say that if the Conservatives/Liberals/NDP went out and murdered an opposition candidate, it wouldn't change too many people's votes.

People ought to vote based on what the candidates pledge to do, and in the case of incumbents, what they actually do. But maybe that's wishful thinking.



To prove my point, I'm asking everyone here if a) they're going to vote, and b) if they are (or even if they aren't), if they bothered to read the platforms of the parties before making their choice.

As I said earlier, I'm not here to get into a political argument. I just want to know if the election is really going as bad in the knowledge department as it looks to me.

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