Comment 62204

By moylek (registered) - website | Posted April 13, 2011 at 14:32:11 in reply to Comment 62203

Choosing between two or three people/parties/colours just doesn't convey any real options. Especially when other options aren't allowed in.

Except ... change happens; alternatives come to the fore and become the new norm. The Canada of 2011 is not the Canada of 1981 or the Canada of 1971 or 1871. It's not as if change and improvement (progress, if you will) can't happen in a two- or three- party system.

Is there something different about 2011 that the system which brought us change for two hundred years (I'm going back to the emergence of modernish parliamentary democracy) can no longer bring about a new and better society? And if there is, what is it?

Again - I should emphasize that I'm not asking rhetorical questions. Nor am I assuming that our system is static, because we have an evolving political system. But I am looking for some historical perspective instead of a view that seems take take the past five years as some sort of immutable problem.

Comment edited by moylek on 2011-04-13 14:33:36

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