A Soon-to-be Voter on Smear Campaigns.
I think I can speak for many Canadians when I say I am sick of smear campaigns. Knowing some political parties didn't even put out a programme until a couple of weeks ago, programmes that weren't even complete, makes me super mad.
I don't care what one of the party leaders did 30 something years ago. I'm not even the same person I was last year, how can we judge someone on who they were 30 years ago? People change. People do stupid things when they are young, those stupid things don't necessarily define them. Morality changes. Values change.
I don't wanna know about something a party leader did when they were six, I don't.
What I want to know is who you are, what you want to do for me, and why you want to do it. I want a programme released the day the election starts, I want party promotion, I want current values. I want to hear why these values matter so much to you, why you want to complete them. Reasoning tells a big part of the story.
Seeing just smear campaigns on the other party doesn't make me want to avoid voting for them, it doesn't make me want to vote for you.
It just makes me want to stop voting period because I don't want to vote for hate.
Canada is known for being kind, forgiving, and loving, so why is our politics filled with hate and anger? It doesn't seem like fun for anybody, not for the voters, not for the parties.
We wonder why the statistics show how many Canadians don't vote, but we don't ask why they don't vote.
I know lots of people that don't want to vote for anybody, not because of what they did 30 years ago, but because they don't have a reason to vote for anyone.
Stop making smear campaigns, they don't help anyone, and they don't work.
