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    Tammy Robert: Avi Lewis ist die beste Chance für die NDP, eine Rolle zu spielen


    Tammy Robert: Avi Lewis ist die beste Chance für die NDP, eine Rolle zu spielen

    https://www.readtheline.ca/p/tammy-robert-avi-lewis-is-the-best

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    1. Godzilla52 on

      I feel like Lewis runs the risk of making the NDP too much of an echo-chamber and struggling to appeal to voters outside of the NDP’s activist wing. I feel like if they want to expand their base and seat count significantly going forward, they probably need to take notes from the West Coast NDP.

    2. RNTMA on

      He’s going to be entering politics at an interesting time, it will be incredibly challenging. It will be very difficult to get people to focus on domestic issues or a „green new deal“ with all the chaos going on in the world. He is the most free of the 3 major party leaders to go after Trump, but that’s not necessarily good for him. Attack Trump too much, and it just highlights the global danger and will drive NDP supporters to Carney due to their fear of Trump and Poilievre.

      Can’t say I envy his position.

    3. Medea_From_Colchis on

      Avi Lewis also has best chance of making the NDP irrelevant. Despite some of the optimism he might bring to a part of the base, Lewis brings all sorts of problems along with him. Lewis and his campaign seem to have a poor understanding of the Canadian political system and economics. He regularly misuses the term monopoly, has numerous policies that cross into provincial jurisdiction but makes almost no mention of cooperation, and promises so much new spending that it’s questionable if has any concept of pace or sense of pragmatism. Lewis and his policies will get ripped apart by talking heads and the media. It almost shocks me some of the things they promote due to their impracticality or unworkability, or even the amount they’d promote all at once. It’s like they’ve tuned all criticism of the NDP. Even if I like a lot of Lewis‘ policies, I couldn’t vote for a platform that excessive and impractical.

      The ultra progressive idealists and activists that make up his base generally don’t understand motives beyond „what is right,“ which is heavily influenced by their own idealism and morality. They don’t really see the problem of promising that much or have the awareness to see their lack of understanding for structural and financial matters as off-putting to voters. A lot of them have good hearts and great ideas: they just struggle to put it all together and account for motives or factors beyond their own limited view of what is right.

    4. Senior_Plastic_95 on

      The NDP goal next election is to get official party status.

      I think lewis will win because of the money he is bringing in.

      I don’t know if lewis can get them official party status. He is very progressive and socialist. The party will be double downing on it’s new university activist image and completely abandon the blue collar vote going with him. I’m not sure how well that translates into seats. He has already made statements about being anti pipeline and statements equating pipeline sites with a rise in murder and rapes of native women by blue collars.

      BC is their stronghold. but going with Lewis their main competition becomes the liberals in the big cities and I’m not sure how well they will do there. And he seems out of touch there as well. He recently did a video saying they ask wealthy people about taxing wealth and the people in those video are the avg 9-5 financial district workers that make 120K a year, not the definition of wealthy.

      One thing for sure is they have given up the blue collar vote to conservatives.

    5. hardk7 on

      The truth is this time in politics is going to be difficult for the NDP to grow. Our domestic economic situation, global trade disruption, American security threat…..none of this lines up well with NDP issues. I can see Lewis motivating the devoted base of the party, but not growing their voter pool.

    6. _Sauer_ on

      The NDP’s moves to appeal to centrists is why they nearly lost me last election. A progressive socialist is exactly the leader I want.

    7. Knight_Machiavelli on

      With the CPC sticking with Poilivere and the NDP on the verge of electing Lewis, the Liberals stand an excellent chance of being in power for the foreseeable future. They must be ecstatic about the terrible choices of their opponents. Only the BQ seems to have any desire to have a competent leader.

    8. WhinoRD on

      To a small amount of people who are more concerned with feelibg superior than actually helping improve the material conditions of working people.

      Anyone but Avi folks.

    9. Wiley_dog25 on

      I’m tired of people thinking that the son of a journalist and UN ambassador is some hero of the people. He went to a private high school. He has no real work experience other than his own work as a TV host. He’s married to Klein and they have a net worth estimated to be over $2 million and they live in Half moon Bay, where an „affordable“ home starts in the millions.

      If the NDP wants to return to its blue collar roots, picking Orange Trudeau sure seems dumb AF.

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