Die NDP braucht Mut – Die massive Niederlage der NDP bei den Wahlen im letzten Jahr könnte sich als Segen erweisen. Da nun nichts mehr zu verteidigen ist, kann die NDP zum Angriff übergehen.
Die NDP braucht Mut – Die massive Niederlage der NDP bei den Wahlen im letzten Jahr könnte sich als Segen erweisen. Da nun nichts mehr zu verteidigen ist, kann die NDP zum Angriff übergehen.
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God I hope so. My husband and I had to hold our noses and vote Liberal the last election because we knew the NDP candidate and the party stood no chance, and that voting NDP would just split the vote for our riding and hand it to the Conservatives. For us it was a choice between a Red Tory and a far right nutjob, and we have a kid on the gender spectrum to protect.
Class warfare is the whole reason for our existence. We deserve to lose until we get back to it. Avi seems to get that.
From the outside, it seems like they have failed to reckon with the fact that the dominant NDP voice in the last election was Charlie Angus, who wasn’t even running, and why that was so.
The NDP has almost always (with the exception of 2011) been a 3rd or 4th place party. Going far to the left of where they currently are (which is still pretty far left) is going to turn them into a fringe party similar to the electoral position of the communist party.
A big part of the reason why Trudeau was so unpopular in his last years as Prime Minister was his government’s obnoxious „woke progressivism“. Yet his government was still centrist compared to the NDP. Under the leadership of centrist banker Mark Carney, the Liberal party has become extraordinarily popular once again in Canada.
At the rate it’s going the only people who are going to vote NDP anymore are a handful of hardcore leftists who refer to Canada as „so called Canada“ & want to see our country turned into a Soviet style planned economy.
He’s ahead of the curve. What he’s selling won’t resonate right now, and won’t for a little while yet, but in two years’ time (maybe less depending on how/when some economic events unfold), there’s a strong probability that that will change. Lewis being ahead of the curve now will later be marketable as authentic, because he was saying this stuff before things went predictably sideways while all the while his opponents bought into all the neoliberal bamboozling that got us into the coming mess only to suddenly change their tune without admitting that they’d been played for fools.
A lack of boldness isn’t what’s been preventing me from going back to voting NDP the past 4 elections. One could argue they boldly present really bad ideas fairly consistently. They’ve mixed mid-20th century class politics with 21st century identity politics to very little success so far.
A labour-oriented party first needs to figure out what it stands for in a world where climate change threatens a lot of traditional working class career (O&G) and developed economies’ competitive advantage is increasingly services based, which means highly mobile capital and labour. Industrial policy is one path, but the NDP, and Canada more broadly really, has no credibility there.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. The guy who’s going to save the NDP can’t even generate a leadership bump in polling lol.
Per 338 Canada, NDP is up 1% in aggregate polling. Despite they’re actually polling lower than the NDP did under Don Davies (10% Dec-Jan).
All of this would be more believable if he got them up to like 12-13%, there’d be some momentum.
But of course Avi’s rhetoric resonates with those in a specific media bubble, and these continuous article continue to show that.
and what , lose whats left ? they dont need to go on attack – they need to go back to their roots !
middle class and working people’s ecomomical / political representation. Stay away from attacks and culture wars !