You really should practice what you preach:
We're human. Northern Light even admitted that he finds it hard to follow that on UT sometimes. Why bother attacking back?
It's the fruitless going at each other's throats when it's either, unnecessary, or there's a better more constructive way to put things, that has lead us to this point in society.
Social media is an echo chamber engineered around confirmation bias. We need outlets where pluralistic debate can still take place without immediately divulging to personal attacks.
Case and point, when slickpete replied to my comment, I think he somewhat misinterpreted what I was saying. I was not giving any vote of support to the PPC and I would never, ever vote for them. I have a laundry list of reasons as to why, but my immediate response was not to call him an uniformed bigot (which most people unfortunately would in this political climate would)
I can offer a reasoned response as to why some of the arguements presented are wrong in whole or part. Like the whole old racist white dude narrative. Maybe that's not true of all the candidates running, but the demographic breakdown would show the largest amount of support coming from rural regions made up of primarily white and religious groups of people. In the midst of that, there are undoubtedly racists, which is what leads to the entire party getting painted with the same brush. That may be unfair to certain PPC voters, but when the party goes to zero lengths to reign in and distance themselves from these antics, and accepts endorsements and support from literal known white supremacists (as was already pointed it out) it's not hard to see where the narrative about the PPC comes from.
Additionally, when you have candidates calling for the death of the standing PM, regardless of whether the candidates were asked to remove those comments, they've not been removed from the party which means clearly such ideology has some hold within the party, which is again, totally unacceptable.
All of that's not to say that there arent some points within the PPC platform that I agree on, but there's some points in everyone's platform that I agree on and the PPC has the least of those, and the most I happen to strongly disagree with.