Canada

People aren't particularly smart. They vote based on emotion.

The current sentiment is unhappiness, so "it can't get worse" is how people are voting.

It can get worse though... we will see 4 years of the Conservatives eroding social policies and benefits, and still not see any improvement in our day to day lives because as you accurately pointed out, they don't actually have the answers.

They won't reduce immigration, because even they realize it's necessary to keep the economy functional. They won't get enough housing built to drop prices, because that would hurt homeowners (still a majority of voters) They won't get food prices down, because that's not in their control at all. Those are international commodities.

They will remove the carbon tax, and save you a couple hundred dollars a year initially while allowing pollution to build so we end up spending billings more on floods and wildfires in the future. Then they'll start hurting people, Trans, Gay, Women, Minorities, etc. just because they like to.

Remember women make up only 18% of the elected Conservative members of parliament, by far the lowest party behind the second worse Liberals at 33%, and the NDP/Bloc at 38%. This is not by accident.

I may not like the Liberals, but they're still better than the Conservatives, and I'm still going to vote NDP unless they do something really stupid.