In the past few elections, I voted Liberal. I actually like our MP, Mauril B\u00e9langer<\/a>, and I was reasonably comfortable with the Liberal Party’s center-right stance.<\/p>\n On the other hand, I was quite\u00a0disappointed with Mr. Trudeau’s stance on C-51 and his general lack of charisma. The NDP’s Mr. Mulcair, on the other hand, is quite charismatic,\u00a0and to the extent that I followed it, his performance as Leader of the Opposition was impressive.<\/p>\n So, I hesitate. Liberal or NDP? I am also inclined to vote “strategically”, as I consider both these parties far preferable to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. But I’d still like to know what I am voting for.<\/p>\n Which is why, when the link showed up in my Facebook feed, I decided to complete a questionnaire by isidewith.com<\/a>, only to find out that both the Liberal Party and the NDP are a close match for my political views:<\/p>\n So far so good, but the rest of this list of parties alarms me. A 75% match with the Green Party I can live with, but the Communists, at 70%? What’s wrong with me (or this survey)? If anything, I’d have thought that my views are more Libertarian, but there I only got a 44% match. As for the Conservatives though, the 7% match does not surprise me: as I said above, this party is conservative in name only.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, even as\u00a0I mull over the pros and cons of voting Liberal vs. NDP, I continue\u00a0dreaming about a center-right party that favors rational thinking over ideology…<\/p>\n I was once a conservative voter. I voted for the Progressive Conservative party even when virtually no-one else did. I\u00a0even voted for Kim Campbell back when the PC party was reduced to two seats in Parliament in an historic defeat. But that was then. Today, we have a party that is conservative in name only: […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-personal","category-politics","category-22-id","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/isidewith.png\")
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