Le sigh...
Aug. 8th, 2015 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pheloniusfriarI just read an article and had to vent my spleen to (at?) the NDP... the "New Democratic Party" to those who don't know Canada's political parties... This is just the tip of the iceberg for why the NDP sucks these days. They earn their pejorative interpretation of their acronym, "Not Destined for Power", fair and square it seems.
This is a prime example of why I see Tom Mulclair as being no better than Stephen Harper. Instead of framing the refusal of Harper to participate in the "consortium debates" as another example of his lack of leadership and accountability, and using the forum with the other party leaders to have a frank discussion about their visions of a future for Canada, Mulclair and the NDP make it all about politics. The NDP is as sucked up into their own navels, and disconnected from what Canadians really want and need, as the Conservative party.
Tom Mulcair says a debate without Stephen Harper 'wouldn't make much sense'
I would also like to add that I was horrified that the ndp.ca page had a dominant logo that stated "Tom Mulclair [maple leaf] NDP". It rings of "Harper's Canada" or the "Harper Government of Canada", and is indicative of much of what is wrong with the Canadian political system. We need a little more collaborative democratic process and a little less "Prime Minister as Monarch".
I cannot view the NDP as an alternative to the despotic style of leadership that we have seen under Harper. As such, you will not have my vote in this coming election, and I will actively steer people away from the NDP (to where, of course, is the question since the field is so deeply crippled with its paucity of vision). You have fallen very far in the eyes of this former NDP activist and organizer, and it is a sad day for Canada that the Conservatives will easily take the next election because of a lack of leadership on the part of the NDP and the Liberals (who are so creatively bankrupt as to have crowned name recognition as their leader in hopes that it would hide the fact they had no ideas left between the bunch of them).
For a previous grumble I sent to the NDP, please see:
Senate abolition and the NDP
See also the essay I wrote quite a while back:
Are Canadian Prime Ministers Too Powerful?
This is a prime example of why I see Tom Mulclair as being no better than Stephen Harper. Instead of framing the refusal of Harper to participate in the "consortium debates" as another example of his lack of leadership and accountability, and using the forum with the other party leaders to have a frank discussion about their visions of a future for Canada, Mulclair and the NDP make it all about politics. The NDP is as sucked up into their own navels, and disconnected from what Canadians really want and need, as the Conservative party.
Tom Mulcair says a debate without Stephen Harper 'wouldn't make much sense'
I would also like to add that I was horrified that the ndp.ca page had a dominant logo that stated "Tom Mulclair [maple leaf] NDP". It rings of "Harper's Canada" or the "Harper Government of Canada", and is indicative of much of what is wrong with the Canadian political system. We need a little more collaborative democratic process and a little less "Prime Minister as Monarch".
I cannot view the NDP as an alternative to the despotic style of leadership that we have seen under Harper. As such, you will not have my vote in this coming election, and I will actively steer people away from the NDP (to where, of course, is the question since the field is so deeply crippled with its paucity of vision). You have fallen very far in the eyes of this former NDP activist and organizer, and it is a sad day for Canada that the Conservatives will easily take the next election because of a lack of leadership on the part of the NDP and the Liberals (who are so creatively bankrupt as to have crowned name recognition as their leader in hopes that it would hide the fact they had no ideas left between the bunch of them).
For a previous grumble I sent to the NDP, please see:
Senate abolition and the NDP
See also the essay I wrote quite a while back:
Are Canadian Prime Ministers Too Powerful?
