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It’s clear that PP is starting to go down the drain I think given all this recent polling. Idk wtf is going on with the NDP
The NDP keeps making the same mistake: they try to be "serious" and "centrist" and get flanked by the Liberals every fucking time because, if you want a socially liberal but economically centrist party, the Liberals already fucking exist.
The NDP has been ducking the "socialist" label since Ontario's Rae government fell because they're big scared of being called socialists. Which is hysterical because the conservatives will call anyone left Mussolini "socialist!" because, in right-wing circles, words don't have meaning.
They're refusing to fight the class war, and as a result they've ceded the working class to the fucking Conservatives. Which is insane.
Charlie Angus is about the only NDP member making a lot of noise about this, and he's retiring. The NDP should be a populist party, but they're afraid to be
I mean the other half of this is that working class people could take over the NDP leadership if there were more momentum but instead it’s just kind of withering with people buying into far right bs
They shot themselves in the foot by trying to topple the government early and now by telling everyone that Trump's coming for our health care.
They can't read the room worth a damn, and have lost all ability to tap into what people are feeling. So, they're collapsing
They've been trying to win their way and it hasn't worked, so now they're trying PP/CPC's tactics of light populism to see if it'll work.
I don't agree with it, but I hope it works.