RIP Tommy Douglas
New Democratic Party
For those that seek a future that brings together the best of the insights and objectives of people who, within the social democratic and democratic socialist traditions, have worked through farmer, labour, co-operative, feminist, human rights and environmental movements, and with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, to build a more just, equal, and sustainable Canada within a global community dedicated to the same goals.
We absolutely do not need any more “strong progressive voices” whatever that even means.
This type of superficially “””progressive””” rhetoric while propping up technocratic neoliberal policies is exactly why the NDP is in the gutter.
What we actually need is an organized, unified left taking wealth back from those who’ve stolen it & using it to fix the abhorrent decline in our wages and living standards over the past 30-40 years.
Labour and wealth equalizing policies are wildly popular on all sides of the political spectrum in this environment. That the NDP is suffering a historic loss as we speak is a scathing rebuke of their inability to hold capital accountable and seize an election that was always theirs to lose.
We don’t need any more people waxing poetic about voices. We need the NDP to roll up their sleeves and start hitting back.