• Corngood@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Pierre Poilievre’s brand has been simple and effective, an anti-elite crusader promising to fight for the “common people” against a rigged system.

    God this is fucking depressing.

    I don’t know what it takes for people to realise that the NDP is an option for the working class. It’s probably some combination of the leader’s attributes, and competent staff getting the right messages out in the right places. I hope they can get it right.

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      20 hours ago

      Poilievre is a beneficiary of an enormous amount of tailwinds from right-wing political winds blowing into Canada from the south, and the fact that our social media and a lot of our traditional media are owned south of the border or aligned with that movement.

      The NDP is going to face a big challenge in this environment no matter what. The NDP coffers are far from bursting at the seems, and they won’t get the benefit of all that free support that exists on the right.

      I’m interested to learn more about Ashton, and I really want to see the NDP have a resurgence. We need strong people going into politics for the NDP to keep the multi-party system healthy.

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      2 days ago

      There’s been a huge working class vacuum in Canadian politics for years that Pollievre was able to fill despite being a horrible fit (“boots not suits” while wearing $2000 suede leather shoes lol). We need real socialists and trade unionists running the NDP again.