{"id":15191,"date":"2025-03-26T00:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=15191"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:41:05","slug":"905-the-ppc-vs-the-ppc-the-peoples-party-of-canada-versus-the-people-problem-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/15191","title":{"rendered":"905 &#8211; The PPC vs the PPC\u2014the People&#8217;s Party of Canada versus the People Problem in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/905-CTVeLEFTion2025-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15192\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20250326-justRIGHT-905-ThePPCvsThePPC-ThePeoplesPartyOfCanadaVsThePeopleProblemInCanada.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><br \/>\nIn this 2025 Canadian election, <strong>Maxime Bernier and the People&#8217;s Party of Canada have been entirely &#8216;Left&#8217; out of the picture<\/strong> by the media.  What&#8217;s surprising is <strong>that there are a significant number of people on the &#8216;Right&#8217; who would also like to see Bernier left out of the picture.<\/strong>  Most call themselves &#8216;conservatives.&#8217;   <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Bernier and the PPC represent some kind of threat to both groups.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering from <strong>political derangement syndromes like the myths of  &#8216;splitting the vote,&#8217; or the &#8216;wasted vote&#8217; delusion<\/strong>,  this latter group of voters who see themselves on the Right comprise a major part of what can best be termed as the &#8216;People Problem in Canada.&#8217;  <\/p>\n<p>Steeped in sheer ignorance, this group can best be seen as NPCs, &#8216;non-player-characters&#8217;, the mindless zombies who are reacting to a false stimulus (like a fear of Mark Carney), instead of acting on reason or principle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Believing that this is some kind of viable political strategy called &#8216;<strong>strategic voting,&#8217; for those on the Right, it is contradictory and self-defeating.<\/strong>  As Robert Vaughan recently described it on social media:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>STRATEGIC VOTER:<\/strong>  I will vote for the party that doesn&#8217;t represent my values in order to defeat the other party that doesn&#8217;t represent my values because the party that does represent my values isn&#8217;t going to get enough votes to win.  <strong>ME:<\/strong>  I will vote for my values.  Always.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems to us that <strong>those who vote &#8216;strategically&#8217; in this manner are betraying themselves<\/strong> for an illusory short-term reward:  a &#8216;lesser&#8217; of a given number of evils.  They are voting &#8216;against,&#8217; rather than voting &#8216;for&#8217; &#8211; a wasted vote if ever there was one.  <\/p>\n<p>Worse, in so doing, <strong>they are also betraying the people who do represent their values<\/strong> and who are working hard to lead others in the Right direction, instead of following others in the Left direction.<\/p>\n<p>In the current political zeitgeist faced by Canadians, &#8216;strategic&#8217; criticisms of Maxime and the PPC serve no purpose other than to malign the only Party on the Canadian federal landscape that gets it Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/905-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/905-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your browser does not support the audio element. In this 2025 Canadian election, Maxime Bernier and the People&#8217;s Party of Canada have been entirely &#8216;Left&#8217; out of the picture by the media. What&#8217;s surprising is that there are a significant number of people on the &#8216;Right&#8217; who would also like to see Bernier left out <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/15191' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51,28,165,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-conservatism","category-latest","category-political-parties","category-politics","issues-canadian-election","issues-derangement-syndromes","issues-maxime-bernier","issues-ppc","category-12-id","category-51-id","category-28-id","category-165-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15222,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions\/15222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}