You can fantasize about the kitchen sink of left policy all day long. None of this matters if the population is centrist neo-liberal minded. Carney is proof of this. Doug Ford is proof of this. Ford in particular is smart enough to know not to mess with social politics. That angers the broad spectrum center voters.

Your dream NDP candidate and platform will not suddenly enamor the population. People don’t personally want to do hard things that are required to address critical issues on the economy and environment. The status quo is the path of least resistance even though the long term consequences are significant.

The problem is not so much platform. Leftist platform is well known. By now it’s a big scary boogeyman thanks to conservative propaganda machine. The task is making such platform palatable. In other words selling it ways that people won’t be fearful that it will put them personally under hardship.

People are short term myopic operators. The idea of a greater good for better personal outcomes does not compute. This is the fact of the matter. Why should anyone individual place big lofty but nebulous national/global issues ahead of food on the table for their family. My kids need to eat, is what anyone is thinking really.

I know you love leftist platform. You can give the list of policy all day long. That doesn’t matter. What matters is making population not recoil at the thought of even one item on the list.

This is why the NDP became indistinguishable from Liberals. They could not figure out how to sell leftist platform. They got gradually nudged and scared from their convictions.

Every party is like this. They’re timid inspite of some of them being blustering strongmen. They’re all basically signalling to the the population not to worry because they won’t be the one that makes your life harder than it already is. Unfortunately for left parties the world is right minded (though not necessarily at heart). It’s the hardest to sell platform by simple metric of absolute distance. It’s not about policy itself. The challenge is making that distance to left platform less scary.

Competition is the spin-doctored way of saying exploitation.

Liberal cabinet

Stopped reading there. You know why.

For everyone else who doesn’t. They’re lying through their teeth. It was a random MP. Not the Liberal cabinet.

You’re always being recorded. Techbros do this on purpose. If they get caught they feign innocence.

They skirt the fringes of legislation anyways so it’s not like there’s ever legal consequences. On the rare occasions there are. It’s a paltry monetary fine.

That doesn’t make him neoliberal.

Carney isn’t a neoliberal.

I’ve been trying an experiment on r/onguardforthee. I block the belligerent reactionary accounts. You know what I’ve noticed. Not only are there repeat customers. Some of these accounts are playing both sides.

It’s not uncommon to see a top comment presenting a popular rational take. Where some time ago I’ve blocked it because it’s a shit stirring right winger.

They are also quite often the OP of top posts in the subreddit.

That’s an Americanism. Canadian boomers aren’t as malignantly conservative.

Ford is a Trump supporter. Republican wannabe. He’s just playing along. We’re watching WWE kayfabe.

We’re as fucked as the Americans are. Maybe more. At least the 75 million who bothered to vote Democrat who don’t want any of this. One third of them know what’s going on. Meanwhile Ontario is still voting on pointless traditional small-c versus small-l partisan issues.

I find myself uninvested in all this seeing how scripted it is. It’s distraction. I mean it’s been the Trump era MO for 10 years. Conservatives here love it. They’ve been cribbing notes. Why aren’t more people seeing it this way. The bluster. The table pounding. It’s all an act.

Whatever the bigger picture ends up being in this great big geopolitical realignment. Canadians are in for very rude awakenings whenever they start realizing it isn’t anymore about nebulous partisan ideologies but fundamental shifts in the world we live in. If the notoriously boisterous Americans are asleep at their own wheel. Where does that leave us.

…citing a lack of consensus across party lines.

Way to leave out the the key quote. I can already picture the angry spittle on peoples screens. Everyone likes to omit the bigger picture for “trudeau bad” rhetoric purpose. He couldn’t unilaterally change the way elections are done. He’s not a dictator. Unless you actually want prime ministers to be dictatorships.