There is one approach for the NDP that would increase leverage with the number of seats. And I am surprised that the NDP has not made this the main point of their election message yet.
The NDP could say that they are no longer interested in supply agreements, but want to be part of a coalition government. In this situation the NDP would supply a number of ministers proportional to the number of seats compared the to the Liberals. This would give the NDP the argument that their influence actually increases with the number of seats.
"a shit economy" - have you read any stats the last year or so? The problem, at least for B of C, is that the economy is not in the shitter, it is robust - job creation being one measure. It's like that other meme: "everybody hates Trudeau" - just as false, he has a very solid, loyal and growing share of voters where it matters - GTA being the main one. Citing false memes doesn't strengthen your arguments.
I don’t think you can. I think they have currently maxed out the Social Justice single-issue voters. There’s plenty of other voters who care about those issues, but not exclusively about those issues.
For that matter, the NDP is pretty weak on Social Justice if you go beyond surface level and expect action in the places where it starts intersecting with things like economic policy.
The NDP’s refusal to engage with substantive policy is crippling them in every area. And I say this as someone who wants them to be doing better
Okay, I see. Thank you. So what sort of substantive policy would you like to see, that you think they should be putting forward in order to win more seats?
There is one approach for the NDP that would increase leverage with the number of seats. And I am surprised that the NDP has not made this the main point of their election message yet.
The NDP could say that they are no longer interested in supply agreements, but want to be part of a coalition government. In this situation the NDP would supply a number of ministers proportional to the number of seats compared the to the Liberals. This would give the NDP the argument that their influence actually increases with the number of seats.
"a shit economy" - have you read any stats the last year or so? The problem, at least for B of C, is that the economy is not in the shitter, it is robust - job creation being one measure. It's like that other meme: "everybody hates Trudeau" - just as false, he has a very solid, loyal and growing share of voters where it matters - GTA being the main one. Citing false memes doesn't strengthen your arguments.
“The way you’d win seats, therefore, is doubling the other half, the urban left wing half”
How do you think they could do this? I’m way more interested in what you see as a winning strategy, personally.
I don’t think you can. I think they have currently maxed out the Social Justice single-issue voters. There’s plenty of other voters who care about those issues, but not exclusively about those issues.
For that matter, the NDP is pretty weak on Social Justice if you go beyond surface level and expect action in the places where it starts intersecting with things like economic policy.
The NDP’s refusal to engage with substantive policy is crippling them in every area. And I say this as someone who wants them to be doing better
Okay, I see. Thank you. So what sort of substantive policy would you like to see, that you think they should be putting forward in order to win more seats?
You do a great job making ‘leverage’ in an ‘electoral sense’ a tangible & visual reality..
this despite.. as you explain so well.. an intangible, shifting, even ‘implacable’ entity
& a floating (mathematical ?) fulcrum point in time/space & public perception
As for the NDP.. they never had it so good in Ottawa..
Eternally grateful they got their thumb in the dike for Canadians & Canada .. the land
I know nothing of how that was brokered.. but props to those ‘nation builders’
as opposed to the ‘alternative’ if one wants to view the Poilievre CPC Vanity Campaign
as an Alternative Anything - other than being a Toxic Seething Big Tent bubble canopy
over a ‘settling pool’ of Sniggering & Parasitic Propagandists
And having a Majority of MainstreamMedia & Partisan by Design