I really like Singh. He is a GOOD man. A GOOD leader. I want to be at a party with him in the room. But I agree, he wasn't the factor in his fate. The centre left sacrificed the NDP for the libs because of the US. Strategic voting worked. If they hadn't this would have been a conservative win. It's acceptable because the alternative is disastrous.
Singh's cuddlyness was probably trying to follow Le Bon Jacque's lead. Fluffy warm and cuddly via Layton got the NDP some big successes and bigger hopes until tragedy struck.
I'm more worried about the next election. A minority in a time of great struggle won't go full term. I give this around 3 years. The libs can't win the next, no one goes 5 terms in a row.
Lets assume the Cons take the next, and the NDP get a bounceback from extreme liberal fatigue. Does the NDP need Hope or Anger? I'm not sure, but we saw a lot of rural areas be two way con/ndp. These areas would probably respond to channeled anger. Flip a few blue to Orange.
Sure, but don't let perfect be the enemy of better than that shit. We knew since David K. Foot Boom Bust and Echo that an aging demographic was going to strain healthcare.
I agree that Liberals and Conservatives are both too fond of privatization, cutting taxes and selling out. But I suspect we were always going to end up here regardless of party, even beyond the false dichotomy.
It's the wrong approach. Earth is in a gross state of ecological overshoot. We should be embracing the demographic decline that will bring our populations and consumption back in line with earths resources.
A shrinking society due to aging is far prefereable than one due to resource exhaustion, deprivation and conflict.
Seems odd. To be consistent, they should jail opposition candidates and stuff ballot boxes and murder traitorous opposition to the one true leader. I propose a new model : The Thunderdome. Two go in, one comes out, until the leader is chosen.
While I accept the premise of the article, I find it misdirected. If we weren't watching a national housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, the death of the middle class, the climate crisis, the demographic crisis, the healthcare crisis pile up on Canadians one after the other, no one would want change and would fight to preserve our way of life.
But we went down the yellow brick road of neoliberal plattitudes about free markets and privatization and made offshore tax evasion easy and risk free for wealthy Canadians and multinationals alike.
Even today, there are tremendous forces working hard with big money to privatise one of our most effective, efficient and formerly sacrosanct institutions. Healthcare. What good is not paying directly for a family doctor when you've never had one and can't get one?
Public healthcare was fantastically productive and efficient, and the same voices that decry canada's productivity crisis are happy to keep erroding public healthcare and march in the profiteers knowing full well it will be a disaster.
Happy people don't revolt. You got unhappy people, it will be taken advantage of by your rivals and enemies.
I really like Singh. He is a GOOD man. A GOOD leader. I want to be at a party with him in the room. But I agree, he wasn't the factor in his fate. The centre left sacrificed the NDP for the libs because of the US. Strategic voting worked. If they hadn't this would have been a conservative win. It's acceptable because the alternative is disastrous.
Singh's cuddlyness was probably trying to follow Le Bon Jacque's lead. Fluffy warm and cuddly via Layton got the NDP some big successes and bigger hopes until tragedy struck.
I'm more worried about the next election. A minority in a time of great struggle won't go full term. I give this around 3 years. The libs can't win the next, no one goes 5 terms in a row.
Lets assume the Cons take the next, and the NDP get a bounceback from extreme liberal fatigue. Does the NDP need Hope or Anger? I'm not sure, but we saw a lot of rural areas be two way con/ndp. These areas would probably respond to channeled anger. Flip a few blue to Orange.