in order for me to vote for the liberals again, they're going to need to do more than get rid of trudeau, who we've learned is basically trying to govern out of the back of some new age spiritual text. this guy is neither into passion nor reason but obsessed with magical thinking.

it's like voting for deepak chopra or something.

but, he's always been a front.

i'm going to want to see most of the backbench gone, too.

the party has fundamentally shifted, ideologically, in a way that i can no longer interpret as an acceptable governing party.

and, i expect that i'm going to be voting for smaller parties - or not at all - for the foreseeable future.

what we've learned is that if you vote for the liberals, even when they have a very left-leaning platform, you just get the conservatives, anyways. that was never true, previously. now, they have a very deep hole to climb out of in winning back their core base of supporters...