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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

If the NDP grows too strong they'll just consolidate the Liberals and Conservatives into the Canada Party or some bullshit. The problem with democracy isn't democratic in nature, it's corruption from the power structures that form and become self-protective. Democracy is just the game we play, the veneer of choice that makes what's going on look nice and legitimate. These power structures and the people in them are playing meta-games above and beyond it. We can't fix these things by modifying the game itself, it may help, it may disrupt them for a bit but they will just find new and probably more powerful ways to metagame the system and entrench themselves at the top.

Things like party politics, strategic voting, media bias, these are just tactics they use. How do we fight against them? I don't know, but I know we can't use the game itself, we have to play the metagame against them. Or at least prevent them from using it against us.