A good post from MenonRRR, which I reproduce in its entirety, in response to MikePalecek’s Substack: A long time NDP member. Here are my suggestions: Here is my response: Overall (also as a longtime NDP member) I agree with these, but I have some comments. First, any position can be co-opted by another party. If…
Is this why the NDP lost? > the party has also had a history of alienating leftist voices I haven’t been involved enough with the party over the years to have alienated any leftists. Quite the contrary, it has seems to me to be the ultra leftists who have been alienating the rest. And these…
How do you think a conservative administration will shape the future of Canada for the next 5-10 years? I’m getting ready for the recession now. Every time we have a Conservative government we have a made-in-Canada recession. There’s no reason to believe this time will be any different. Spending will go up, a lot, but…
From grantpotter @grantpotter Pro-democracy activists have shown that far-right demonstrations of power have six core goals: To legitimize their views, strengthen their self-image as part of the downtrodden, unite their squabbling factions, attract new people to the movement, control media coverage, and feel powerful and heroic. https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/weird-and-the-breaking-of-the-fascist-fever/ And from Anne-Marie Scott @Ammienoot@social.ds106.us @grantpotter “Progressives should…
On Reddit and the Star is was suggested that: Trudeau and Singh must look to France to avoid a Poilievre government In France, the lesson is that proportional representation is more democratic than first-past-the-post. In the recent election, the centrist Macron (similar to Trudeau) did not make any deals with the left wing parties. Rather,…
Responding to this article in the Globe and the associated Reddit thread. “If an election were called tomorrow, the dynamics of the campaign could well push the NDP ahead of the Liberals.” The NDP is forcing the Liberals to move on pharmacare and dental care. As these programs expand (which they will, because Canadians want…
In his newsletter Scott Galloway writes the following: The only thing that’s passed for bipartisanship over the past four decades is reckless spending. Democrats want more social spending, Republicans want lower taxes. OK, let’s compromise — do both and fuck over our grandkids. He also writes: Let’s dispense with one of the most tired false…
Here’s what Slavoj Žižek writes: There is a double paradox here. Western political correctness (“wokeness”) has displaced class struggle, producing a liberal elite that claims to protect threatened racial and sexual minorities in order to divert attention from its members’ own economic and political power. At the same time, this lie allows alt-right populists to…
The convention system of party governance should be abolished, the delegate system ended, and mechanisms put into place for the membership to reach agreement, point by point, on a comprehensive platform and strategy.
Through the election I’ll be watching both NDP news releases and Green news releases not so much for the content – the two parties often echo each other – but for the selection of issues to care about.