Ontario Politics; getting tired of it

Watching the conservative leadership secretly as it goes on.  There are three candidates, two of whomever are female, as predicted, but the third is a man.  The brother of Rob Ford, the former mayor of Big Smoke.  Which is difficult to imagine, because Rob Ford was Big Smoke's Donald Trump.  In all the same ways, only not as wealthy.  He was only in power three years ago, but it it were today in the #MeToo times, he would be out.  One wonders how Doug Ford is alike to his brother.  

The comments that I have read are also interesting.  A woman saying that she would never vote for a female politician.  Comments suggesting that the career woman politician lost two leadership campaigns and was thus a loser and should not compete in this campaign.  And that the last candidate was untried, an outsider with a father who was prime minister.  

The thing is the Conservatives are leading in the polls because the people dislike the current government.  They hate it.  Why because of high hydro bills.  As far as I can tell that is what people hate the most.  That's fine, but it is not a good reason.  A good reason would be is that you disagree with what they are doing in government.  But, let's face it, some people will hate the Liberals because they are Liberals.  I am not.  But I have a though time disagreeing with their policies on the whole.  

I am curious about the policies of their platforms.  The Mulroney is on the record of being a Progressive Conservative of old.  And the Ford as being a Reform style Conservative.  A Progressive Conservative was one of the funny idosyncracies of Canadian politics of the pre90s.  They were Center Right, as opposed to the Reform Conservatives which are Right of Center.  The differences were akin to the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in America.  Which is the interesting part.  When you add in the Liberal party.  

I would say that the Liberal Party is a Center party, it wobbles between Center Right and Center Left.  If the Progressive Conservative party wins the Leadership, then electing them in the province would essentially mean status quo in provincial policies.  If they chose a leader like Doug Ford, they would be selecting a leader that very likely could be compared to Donald Trump, and that would likely mean less support for the party.  Additionally, if he has any skeletons in his closet, they will come out during the election it shortly thereafter.  

So the real question is will they be stupid or smart.  And then are the people of Ontario stupid or smart?

One of the many policy differences between the hopeful leaders is their stance on a Carbon Tax, which I think is funny, because the Federal Government has already said that if the province doesn't have one of the two suggested policies, one will be imposed on them: Carbon Tax or Cap and Trade, so saying no to either is just a empty policy.  

Hydro bills.  The truth is that successive governments had been subsidizing Hydro for decades and increasing our provincial debt loads.  The funny thing is that if the Conservatives get into power, they would give the bill right back to the people, subsidies are a left wing thing after all.  So, does that mean that they will lower taxes and increase subsidies? Seems kind of impossible.  But, you know politicians will do stupid things just to get elected.  That is why everything is all fucked up.

We need electoral reform so that each party can just learn to say what they mean and and… who am I kidding.