NDP-Basis-Buck gegen ‚Top-Down‘-Führung Race
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/12/news/ndp-grassroots-against-top-down-leadership-plans
NDP-Basis-Buck gegen ‚Top-Down‘-Führung Race
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/12/news/ndp-grassroots-against-top-down-leadership-plans
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I am going to go against the grassroots and say this about fundraising. NDP’s fundraising op does suck ass, but just cuz we are not funded by big moneyed interests like liberals or conservatives, it’s not an excuse to be shit at it. Bernie was a beast at fundraising, and he got it from small dollar donations, and NDP should be focusing on this way more, and as such, having a higher entrance fee is logical in my opinion.
Carney is going to PM for a while. This is the perfect opportunity for a long and open leadership to really decide what the party wants to be. This is not an urgent situation to get in an established leader quick who will just rehire all the old guard staff.
They should have a minimum threshold of supporters, not dollars. An entry fee seems both ideologically unsound for the NDP and a surefire way to ensure the same problem as before: a leader who is unappealing to the demographic they need to vote for them.
I think the New Democrats would do well to structure the leadership in a way that captures the social democratic energy of the grassroots. If Carney plans on running a centrist government, they might attract disaffected progressive Liberals from the Trudeau-Gould wing of the party.
With the Liberals moving to the right and likely implementing cuts to social programs to pay for increased military spending, there is huge political opportunity for the NDP. The fundraising should be aimed at this: selling lots of memberships and growing the party by having an open race that brings lots of new and fresh faces and ideas from interests/groups/movements that aren’t currently engaged in the NDP.
I cannot believe that this clique of left wing commentators are still making hay out of the supposed NDP establishment leadership race rules.
In reality we know absolutely nothing about what the rules will be. And whatever they end up being, they’ll be passed by the party’s federal council, which is full of grassroots people. The rules cannot be rammed through by „the establishment“.
Meanwhile, how many articles have we seen talking as if we know what the party’s leadership wants? And they all point back to the same place — a single globe and mail article, where someone not associated with the party speculates about what the rules might be. That’s it.
It’s hard not to see these repeated articles as an effort to manufacture an anti-establishment narrative out of essentially nothing.