At the risk of falling into a trap set to bait engagement by making provocative statements, this is nonsense:
"If you’re a progressive who feels upset at the NDP but hasn’t voted for them since Jack, you don’t really get to say it was a mistake that they’re not appealing to you."
I vote strategically because the Conservatives would do more damage than the Liberals. If the NDP could increase their appeal, they might actually stand a chance in my riding and I might feel like I could safely vote for them without risking a CPC win.
Also I do worry about Don Davies's posturing and subsequent about-turn when it came to actually adopting the throne speech. Why not be honest and level criticism at it while also acknowledging that triggering another election would not be in Canadians' best interest? The way that it went down, it gives the impression that he didn't think through his threat and it makes him look amateurish.
If it had gone to a vote and caused another election, they would all be gone. Disagree with you on this one 100%. They have no money. Now wasn’t the time over the Throne speech.
Agreed, but then we're women, and not "bros" who insist on their super-entitled right to either weigh in and/or be entertained at EVERY SINGLE turn because being "gamers" first and foremost automatically makes them "playas."
Their state of entitlement is SO deeply embedded at this point that most of them are utterly oblivious.
What they refuse to take in is that who actually wins government, especially right now, is several orders of magnitude above winning in ANY sport, despite the bizarro world Trump/Poilievre/right-wing populists everywhere have created, very much with the help of OTHER bros of the big-tech variety.
But the fact that conservatives still somehow remain a going concern electorally, despite their blithe denial of the existential climate change that creeps ever closer also shows who gave Trump power.
In this precarious context we need to rally the troops, but since the federal NDP steadfastly refuse to recognize that, progressive voters simply went over their also entitled heads, something they ALSO blame on the Liberals. No wonder so many of their voters chose the conservatives instead; there are cultish similarities.
They embody the narcissism of small differences under the circumstances, but we keep hearing the Liberals are the arrogant ones.
Suffice to say, Paul Krugman's substack has a far more adult perspective.
No, but his mature economist's perspective/overview on the current disastrous political phenomenon is so much more rational than all these young men/pocasters/gamers who are so besotted by the entertainment value of the horse race above all else, even in the truly existential context of climate change that they have disproportionately enabled the dangerous anti-vaxxer climate change denying CPC, or "Convoy Party of Canada" to come uncomfortably close to attaining the power needed to govern the rest of us.
This despite the ongoing shitshow in the States, which is what happens when Christian Nationalists and psycho billionaires take charge, but who cares when they have also made politics more FUN?!
I'm also worried about women's rights because just when we seemed to be making headway, the recent American election was reduced to the "bros vs the hos," and we all know who won.
I think I see what you mean, although it is quite wordy. I don't think being a man with an interest in our political system is anything to be mad at someone for.
one-timers and it needs the diehards. It needs workers and it needs canapé commies. It needs a ton of help.
What it DOESN'T need is to alienate voters by triggering an election and what it DOESN'T need is some sort of purity test where "Ooooh Liberals are technocrat financiers and Conservatives are skerry populists!"
NDP got trounced and if they want to keep their scant seats they'd bette pick their lanes (and confidence) wisely.
Don Davies indeed scored a small win. But the larger or longer term win for him and the NDP is that he made it clear that the NDP is not interested in a confidence and supply lite scenario. There is nothing to be gained for the NDP to play this role.
It was also a win for Carney. They “survived” a confidence vote without making concessions or any pandering to the Bloc. It will be important to keep the attitude of not being afraid of new elections as long as possible.
At the risk of falling into a trap set to bait engagement by making provocative statements, this is nonsense:
"If you’re a progressive who feels upset at the NDP but hasn’t voted for them since Jack, you don’t really get to say it was a mistake that they’re not appealing to you."
I vote strategically because the Conservatives would do more damage than the Liberals. If the NDP could increase their appeal, they might actually stand a chance in my riding and I might feel like I could safely vote for them without risking a CPC win.
Also I do worry about Don Davies's posturing and subsequent about-turn when it came to actually adopting the throne speech. Why not be honest and level criticism at it while also acknowledging that triggering another election would not be in Canadians' best interest? The way that it went down, it gives the impression that he didn't think through his threat and it makes him look amateurish.
If it had gone to a vote and caused another election, they would all be gone. Disagree with you on this one 100%. They have no money. Now wasn’t the time over the Throne speech.
Agreed, but then we're women, and not "bros" who insist on their super-entitled right to either weigh in and/or be entertained at EVERY SINGLE turn because being "gamers" first and foremost automatically makes them "playas."
Their state of entitlement is SO deeply embedded at this point that most of them are utterly oblivious.
What they refuse to take in is that who actually wins government, especially right now, is several orders of magnitude above winning in ANY sport, despite the bizarro world Trump/Poilievre/right-wing populists everywhere have created, very much with the help of OTHER bros of the big-tech variety.
But the fact that conservatives still somehow remain a going concern electorally, despite their blithe denial of the existential climate change that creeps ever closer also shows who gave Trump power.
In this precarious context we need to rally the troops, but since the federal NDP steadfastly refuse to recognize that, progressive voters simply went over their also entitled heads, something they ALSO blame on the Liberals. No wonder so many of their voters chose the conservatives instead; there are cultish similarities.
They embody the narcissism of small differences under the circumstances, but we keep hearing the Liberals are the arrogant ones.
Suffice to say, Paul Krugman's substack has a far more adult perspective.
I'm not sure I understand the Paul Krugman plug. He doesn't seem to write about Canadian politics?
No, but his mature economist's perspective/overview on the current disastrous political phenomenon is so much more rational than all these young men/pocasters/gamers who are so besotted by the entertainment value of the horse race above all else, even in the truly existential context of climate change that they have disproportionately enabled the dangerous anti-vaxxer climate change denying CPC, or "Convoy Party of Canada" to come uncomfortably close to attaining the power needed to govern the rest of us.
This despite the ongoing shitshow in the States, which is what happens when Christian Nationalists and psycho billionaires take charge, but who cares when they have also made politics more FUN?!
I'm also worried about women's rights because just when we seemed to be making headway, the recent American election was reduced to the "bros vs the hos," and we all know who won.
I think I see what you mean, although it is quite wordy. I don't think being a man with an interest in our political system is anything to be mad at someone for.
The NDP needs the Layton-era
one-timers and it needs the diehards. It needs workers and it needs canapé commies. It needs a ton of help.
What it DOESN'T need is to alienate voters by triggering an election and what it DOESN'T need is some sort of purity test where "Ooooh Liberals are technocrat financiers and Conservatives are skerry populists!"
NDP got trounced and if they want to keep their scant seats they'd bette pick their lanes (and confidence) wisely.
But Conservatives absolutely ARE "skerry (scary I assume) populists!
Don Davies indeed scored a small win. But the larger or longer term win for him and the NDP is that he made it clear that the NDP is not interested in a confidence and supply lite scenario. There is nothing to be gained for the NDP to play this role.
It was also a win for Carney. They “survived” a confidence vote without making concessions or any pandering to the Bloc. It will be important to keep the attitude of not being afraid of new elections as long as possible.