Partisan Politics & the Green Party

With Elizabeth May and the Green Party on the rise, let’s take a moment to talk about partisan politics, aka, me vs you. (also, kind of a slow news day…)

This is a good thing for the system. With the NDP’s collapse in the 2015 election, we saw the race narrow to two parties, Libs vs Cons, much like the American system, which I believe has a polarizing effect on our politics. It becomes an “you’re either with us or against us” type situation, which leads to charming white supremist rallies and unabashed media biases from the left… (and the right…)

A two-party system allows for extremism to grow on either side. There are only so many voters, and if there are only two parties, well, you gotta try and get that vote somehow, so I guess you better cater to that racist fella who don’t like dem Mexicans… BUILD A WALL (smart!)

And hey, if you think that people can be butterflies, well, that might become a completely valid and reasonable opinion if you’re catering to the extreme left…

I think you get where I’m going with this.

A multiple party system works to diversify and spread out humanities crazy little ideas. And let’s be honest, we have a way of going too far with things… (unions, liberalism, conservatism, capitalism, fucking sports, hashtags, porn, food, whatever the fuck really, we will find a way to exploit and exhaust it)

My biggest beef with partisan politics is that it removes logic from the equation. People say what they think they are supposed to say… You’re conservative, well you hate carbon tax. You’re liberal, you hate oil… and we end up standing in two giant separate circle jerks, where people say the same things over and over while nodding in profuse agreement without really listening or caring what the other side has to say…

There’s a middle ground to everything people (unless you want to talk about Season 8 of Game of Thrones, because that’s just complete garbage).

If the Green Party can pick up the oh so obvious slack of the NDP, we might see the libs and cons having to adjust their platforms slightly, or at least sweat a bit, which I support unreservedly.

So, go Liz go! (also congrats on the marriage😊)