In The Left Corner, In Other Left Corner…
January 14, 2007 · By Kelly T Konechny
The NDP have a chance to fight a good old green fight. Not the typical St. Paddy’s day green fighting, but a fight nonetheless.
The NDP has, for the last 30 plus years, been a party that called for actions from others. They were judged on which topics to call on and their passion for each, right or wrong. That fact has changed today. The Green party, lead by Elizabeth May, looks like a perfectly matched rival for the dippers. The Greens seem to be emerging as the party of choice for the pure and true socialist view, a few steps left of the centre blend that has infected the NDP over the years.
With a true rival that could affect real seats in the next election, the Greens pose a threat to the NDP like no other. Now is the time for the NDP, a fork in the road of the party’s life that could be make or break for them over the longer term. They can no longer throw empty quotations calling for this or that. They must make original arguments that sell the voters. This is a long way from where the party has gotten comfortable in the past.
The first battle has already begun, the environment.
It will be interesting to see how they choose their words in the coming months, with talk of a spring or summer election, the party strategists don’t have long to change a course of a fundamental party methodology of doing things or plan for multi-tiered attacks and retorts, a side of the Canadian political landscape that has been restful for so long.
As someone who enjoyed watching the Liberal Leadership convention, I look forward to the upcoming months of watching, like a fly on the wall, how the NDP plan to overcome this obstacle in their path and if they are successful or not.
This red/green blindness which has permeated the Left will lead them all to fall into the ditch.
GoodonYa
Can they spin like the mouse who fell into the vat of cream? I don’t think so.
The Dippers shouldn’t have abandoned their base by supporting immigration and women’s issues.
Now the Greens will take over from the Reds who went purple.
As long as it splits the Left vote it’s all good.
OT.
Does anyone think that it is a coincidence that Green is the colour of Islam?
The Greens are stealing support from every party, but keep trying to convince yourself that we are socialist, cause it is way easier to an ingnorant party that refuses to live in reality or deal with reality.
Zorpheus, I tried the Greens but their anti-trade stance and their stance for an elitist appointed Senate will likely not attract many Conservative-minded people to the party…some votes maybe.
The Greens ARE socialists.
The Kyoto Protocol IS socialism.
Progressivism IS socialism.
The whole Green Party platform is rife with regulation:
control of markets, control of the means of production, control of the means of finance, control of distribution, penalties for this, penalties for that.
People don’t respond to having a party wage war on their lifestyle.
Hot button terms like ’sustainable’ and ‘progressive’ are straight out of the UN socialist playbook.
The entire Green movement is a play from the USSR’s ComInform movement to strangle western capitalist development of resources for the exploitation of each western nations people.
Does anyone think that it is a coincidence that Green is the colour of Islam?
You’re in splendid company Kelly.
Somebody get May on the tele, she’ll need to be informed she’s a socialist! LOL.