I know, it's really pretty awful. I hope to take a hard look at the NDP and the Greens sooner than later, but I fear I already know what I'll have to say about the former already. Namely, why should I vote for "nice" Liberals when real (and presumably competent) Liberals are right there on the ballot with a chance to take power.
I miss the days when the NDP actually believed in Socialism, rather than, er, nothing much at all. (As I said, I need to pay more close attention, but that's my impression and has been for quite a while now.)
Re: Amen, sister!ed_rexApril 12 2011, 02:48:46 UTC
Really. Nationalizing the banks (which doesn't sound like as bad an idea now as it did maybe three or four years ago) was one of its platforms at least until the late 1970s.
The irony is, they arguably accomplished a great deal more (c.f. medicare, just as a fer'instance) back in the days when they had principles but no delusions of gaining actual power, than they have in the past 20 or so years, when they have dreamed of replacing the Liberals. And meanwhile, the political "centre" in the country has been edging ever-rightward, because the neo-cons do have principals, no matter how distasteful and ultimately destructive they may be.
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I miss the days when the NDP actually believed in Socialism, rather than, er, nothing much at all. (As I said, I need to pay more close attention, but that's my impression and has been for quite a while now.)
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NDP was once socialist? *blinks* Really?
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The irony is, they arguably accomplished a great deal more (c.f. medicare, just as a fer'instance) back in the days when they had principles but no delusions of gaining actual power, than they have in the past 20 or so years, when they have dreamed of replacing the Liberals. And meanwhile, the political "centre" in the country has been edging ever-rightward, because the neo-cons do have principals, no matter how distasteful and ultimately destructive they may be.
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