My grandfather god bless his soul told me this when I was like 17 and about to be able to vote . He told me that politics is easy . The pendulum swings one way for a while , and then due to physics , eventually has to swing the other way . This is the way it is in a two party system and how this country works . The Liberals get put in charge for a while , then people start to think the country is too liberal so they vote in the Conservatives and let them run things for a while , until people feel the country is too conservative so they put the liberals back in . Repeat as necessary . In the end , you ' ll still be ok no matter who ' s in charge . My grandfather was a genius and bestowed many pearls of wisdom like that on me . Usually before I was old enough to really understand how important they were .