Do we Treat Politics too Much like A Game?

Warning, long comment incoming!

About Canadian politics,

First I'd like to say that I live in Thomas Mulcair's county (Outremont, Montréal, Québec). WE were actually the ones who started the NPD/NDP wave in Québec ! :D

Then concerning your third example, I think the Conservative party got its majority not because people were enthusiastic about it, but mostly because a lot of Liberal electors in Ontario switched to the NPD/NDP.
This allowed Harper to get most deputies in Ontario.

So I think this example wasn't really the best one.

The one about Alberta, however, was a perfect one.

Now I'm gonna add another example myself:

Last in Quebec a new politic party was created: the CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec ; Quebec coalition for the future).

This party quickly rose to 40% vote intentions, overthrowing the second party and almost reaching the first one.
As you stated, the media really took a long time before they really started talking about his program.
And when they did, they realised they had none !

This is when the CAQ went down to 22%.

So I think this example shows your plot pretty well.

If you want one more example, just look at what happened recently at the French presidential elections, or at the Greek elections!


In conclusion, I definitely think we consider politics too much like a game.


Robotech0

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well shit, i hate the party system. i hate democracies and all round. You are putting a bunch of fucking clay blobs in charge. Then the media molds them up with shit ideas. Then a bunch of idiots are voting for rich liar assholes who don't give a shit about them. And for taxes no matter whatever the fuck we do in the range of taxes won't help, we have too many departments and we will continue to pile on debt. Overall the system is shit. Instead of a plutocratic democracy I want a bureaucratic republic.

When politics becomes a game is when you know your system is shit and it will never be able to turn around.

Also the new orleans saints winning the super bowl in 2009 did effect that community. It actually help that city rebuild from post katrina

Good to see these back. I enjoy hearing you ramble on about politics. Quite enjoyable

lol the social media....

Good thing Santorum dropped out

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Nice goatee you have there.

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Excellent video, especially considering it was pretty much completely off the tongue.

yay! the coffehouse is back. everybody do the bender!

Why are there always boxes scattered around your house?

This reminds me a bit of the big storm in a teacup we had in the UK a few years back when the BNP suddenly burst into the limelight after gaining some popularity. There wasn't really a single news outlet criticising, or reviewing their policies at all - it was all just "OMG the BNP are popular everyone panic!" They performed terribly in the elections afterwards, and I can only assume that the same thing happened that you described in Alberta - people finally caught up and looked into what kind of agenda they were actually pushing.

We pay 20% "national sales tax".