The liberals are banking on you for being cynical on electoral reform as that allows them to keep putting Canadians into this vicious cycle of a quasi two party state with minority rule that continues to enrich the powerful few while the rest of us get scraps off our labour. We need to put more pressure on our mps to do the right thing and pass proportional representation without a referendum as most Canadians already support the concept.
Our MPs don’t wanna for the same reason JT doesn’t wanna. They don’t wanna fuck with the system that put them in power.
Partisan politics has made it so that career politicians represent the party to the constituents, rather than having politicians who represent their constituents to the government.
We the people hold the power not the politicians just because they don’t want proportional representation doesn’t mean we’re always stuck with first-the-post.
There are many ways everyday people can be disruptive to force the liberals to do the right thing and to have more than 40 liberals vote in favour of electoral reform.
Many things by protesting on the streets, writing to our MPs, educating our neighbours, pushing for pr in the Yukon, holding general strikes and by continuing to bring up the topic for example.
General strikes might help, but when was the last time one of those got serious traction.
As for the other things, those are certainly things you can do, but I’m not seeing how doing them would motivate an otherwise unmotivated MP. Especially conservative MPs.
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The liberals are banking on you for being cynical on electoral reform as that allows them to keep putting Canadians into this vicious cycle of a quasi two party state with minority rule that continues to enrich the powerful few while the rest of us get scraps off our labour. We need to put more pressure on our mps to do the right thing and pass proportional representation without a referendum as most Canadians already support the concept.
Our MPs don’t wanna for the same reason JT doesn’t wanna. They don’t wanna fuck with the system that put them in power.
Partisan politics has made it so that career politicians represent the party to the constituents, rather than having politicians who represent their constituents to the government.
We the people hold the power not the politicians just because they don’t want proportional representation doesn’t mean we’re always stuck with first-the-post.
There are many ways everyday people can be disruptive to force the liberals to do the right thing and to have more than 40 liberals vote in favour of electoral reform.
Like what? What are some of the ways that we can force an MP to do the right thing if they don’t want to?
Many things by protesting on the streets, writing to our MPs, educating our neighbours, pushing for pr in the Yukon, holding general strikes and by continuing to bring up the topic for example.
General strikes might help, but when was the last time one of those got serious traction.
As for the other things, those are certainly things you can do, but I’m not seeing how doing them would motivate an otherwise unmotivated MP. Especially conservative MPs.