to begin with, i live in canada and cannot vote in the united states. and, no, i've never tried to. everything else aside, i've never seen a candidate run at any level that i would actually want to vote for.
i did not endorse kamala harris.
i did not endorse joe biden.
i did not endorse barack obama.
i did not endorse al gore.
i did not endorse bill clinton.
there are two years - 2004 and 2016 - when i did not exactly endorse the democrats but suggested that voting democratic was probably worth doing. in hindsight, i am not sure i was right to suggest that in 2016. i came the closest i've ever come to actively endorsing a democratic candidate in 2004, which was the year that john kerry ran.
i have never endorsed mark carney.
i did not endorse justin trudeau.
i did not endorse michael ignatieff (but rather campaigned aggressively against him)
i did endorse stephane dion.
i did not endorse paul martin.
i did not endorse jean chretien.
i have not endorsed avi lewis. i might have endorsed naomi klein.
i did not endorse jagmeet singh.
i did not endorse tom mulcair.
i did not endorse jack layton.
i have not endorsed a candidate for premier in ontario since 2018.
i did endorse kathleen wynne
i did endorse dalton mcguinty
i actually rarely vote where i can vote in canada and when i do vote i tend to vote for smaller parties or for local candidates. i voted for sandra pupatello in windsor-west when i lived there because i strongly disliked the local ndp candidate and i thought she would make a better mp than him. i did not vote in the federal election last year. i have not voted in any provincial election in ontario since before i moved to windsor in 2013. i have never voted for a mayoral candidate. i have voted for a slew of green party candidates at various levels in various elections since the early 00s.
i am nowhere close to the democrats on most issues, nowhere close to the liberals on most issues and not very close to the ndp on most issues. i would consider these to be center-right to far-right parties.
if i had any interest in supporting the democrats in previous years, the recent hard shift to the right in the democratic party makes me less interested in supporting them than i ever have been. i see no self-interest in even tolerating the democrats at this point, or see any value in rhetorically supporting them over the republicans. they are not only not better, they are discernibly worse on a slew of issues, and they are moving in the wrong direction and getting worse.
if i were to judge the directions of the parties, i would consider it relatively likely that i will endorse a republican presidential candidate as a lesser evil some time in the next 5 to 10 years.
so, please don't look at me as a democratic party ally. i think the democrats are an extreme right-wing party and are getting more far right every cycle, to the point that they are threatening to run to the right of the republicans in the near future. i am not an ally of the liberal party, either. while they were at one time a centrist party that campaigned on the centre-left and governed on the centre-right, that's not even true anymore. nowadays, they campaign on the centre-right and govern on the far right. in 2026, the ndp is the centre-right! we don't just not have a definable left, we don't even have a definable centre anymore.
i am most likely to support the green party in upcoming cycles, but the party has been a disaster recently and it's an open question as to whether i might decide it's worthwhile or not.