Tactical Voting

Canadian politics (click the link in the title) is all about what is usually called strategic voting. People vote for a pretty corrupt party in fear of the excesses of US style laissez faire neo-coservatism. I call it tactical voting, because you can win battles with tactics, as in the originally Chinese game Go, but to win the war you need strategy. Just doing tactics is not enough. You have to do the really hard work of thinking about and building a long term strategy, and in modern politics in developed countries, that means the Herculean task of getting the public to look deeply into issue like crime and health care/ Otherwise, good things like the Canadian health care system will suffer the death of a thousand cuts.