If you hope for an NDP future then you have to support it even when it’s scary. We keep kneecapping them and then complaining when they don’t have the power to do the objectively better things they promise. They even still manage to get some shit done when they can create coalitions and force the Liberals to actually do some good for the country. The NDP is the reason why we have even a small amount of dental coverage, for example, and then we go off about how they don’t know politics the same like what the hell are we smoking?
I’ll never get what people mean when they say that Singh “wasn’t ready” while voting for a bunch of losers who had no business being in government and who, even if they were “ready”, used that readiness to fuck us over. Imagine if the people of Middle Earth looked at Aragorn* and said “well he’s never been king before and Denethor might be straight-up insane but he UnDeRsTaNdS pOLiTiCs and with Sauron right there is now really the Right Time™?”. That’d be crazy, and we’d all have walked out of the theatre, yet we’re doing exactly that.
*I’m not saying Singh is Aragorn-like and will not engage with anyone ignoring the obvious message in favour of hanging on that part of an analogy.
Eh, I do, I voted ndp, and my riding got the candidate. Now, I still think Carney is better equipped to steer an economy so that Canada doesn’t collapse under the weight of the current monstrosity that is the US, but yes, the average person is far and away better off with the NDP.
I think we can have the nuance to believe both can be true. Meeting the world where it is, and not where we think it should be requires some reflection on priorities in any given moment. That said, I hope we can pivot towards more socialism once external economic factors have been more sorted out, despite being a banker, I do think he has Canada’s best interests in mind. Either way, we’ll see I suppose
If you hope for an NDP future then you have to support it even when it’s scary. We keep kneecapping them and then complaining when they don’t have the power to do the objectively better things they promise. They even still manage to get some shit done when they can create coalitions and force the Liberals to actually do some good for the country. The NDP is the reason why we have even a small amount of dental coverage, for example, and then we go off about how they don’t know politics the same like what the hell are we smoking?
I’ll never get what people mean when they say that Singh “wasn’t ready” while voting for a bunch of losers who had no business being in government and who, even if they were “ready”, used that readiness to fuck us over. Imagine if the people of Middle Earth looked at Aragorn* and said “well he’s never been king before and Denethor might be straight-up insane but he UnDeRsTaNdS pOLiTiCs and with Sauron right there is now really the Right Time™?”. That’d be crazy, and we’d all have walked out of the theatre, yet we’re doing exactly that.
*I’m not saying Singh is Aragorn-like and will not engage with anyone ignoring the obvious message in favour of hanging on that part of an analogy.
Eh, I do, I voted ndp, and my riding got the candidate. Now, I still think Carney is better equipped to steer an economy so that Canada doesn’t collapse under the weight of the current monstrosity that is the US, but yes, the average person is far and away better off with the NDP.
I think we can have the nuance to believe both can be true. Meeting the world where it is, and not where we think it should be requires some reflection on priorities in any given moment. That said, I hope we can pivot towards more socialism once external economic factors have been more sorted out, despite being a banker, I do think he has Canada’s best interests in mind. Either way, we’ll see I suppose