Thanks Colton! I really appreciate it. I feel like a lot of people have these feelings. Or maybe it's just my circle, but it's quite a disappointing reality they're in.
They're still very much trapped in the centrist mold that Layton and co formed to make the party "electable." Except the media are never going to give the NDP a fair shake (because they party, even at its most neoliberal, doesn't represent capital as well as the Liberals and Conservatives).
So the party appeases neither its base nor the Bay Street columnist class, not that the latter are well connected with popular sentiment but they do form the dominant mainstream discourse.
It is worth noting though that for every critique we on the left can lay at the Horgan NDP, he was one of the most successful NDP premiers in Canada in recent history, having basically supplanted the neoliberal coalition that has won almost every election here since the 1950s. His is definitely a far more complex legacy.
Finally, in the L column, keep your eyes on Manitoba as Wab Kinew looks set to be the next NDP leader to blow it.
I made a whole ass account just to say thank you and I think you perfectly captured exactly how I feel about the state of the current NDP.
Thanks Colton! I really appreciate it. I feel like a lot of people have these feelings. Or maybe it's just my circle, but it's quite a disappointing reality they're in.
They're still very much trapped in the centrist mold that Layton and co formed to make the party "electable." Except the media are never going to give the NDP a fair shake (because they party, even at its most neoliberal, doesn't represent capital as well as the Liberals and Conservatives).
So the party appeases neither its base nor the Bay Street columnist class, not that the latter are well connected with popular sentiment but they do form the dominant mainstream discourse.
It is worth noting though that for every critique we on the left can lay at the Horgan NDP, he was one of the most successful NDP premiers in Canada in recent history, having basically supplanted the neoliberal coalition that has won almost every election here since the 1950s. His is definitely a far more complex legacy.
Finally, in the L column, keep your eyes on Manitoba as Wab Kinew looks set to be the next NDP leader to blow it.