NDP Mirror

I think we're going a little, itsy over board with Layton and his legacy.

Robert Fulford's take:

"The way it's worked out, the central function of the NDP is to help members and supporters pretend that they are not living in a society built on capitalism. Democratic socialism is a fairy tale that they tell themselves as consolation for having to exist in a distressingly grubby, money-driven world. New Democrats don't like business, even if they happen to work for corporations. They know and have always known that the profit motive is not a good thing. Many of them are prosperous, many take pride in their expensive houses, exotic vacations and pensions administered on Bay Street. Some have inherited large sums of money. Even so, they don't care to be reminded that corporations make the comfort and convenience of their lives possible. They love their electronic devices but they don't wish to dwell on the fact that computers and iPads exist (and reach us at low prices) because of the burning desire to maximize profit."

Let's run with this.

Hence, why nobody when it counts most, listens to millionaire socialists who then turn around and make movies screaming about how stupid and easily swindled people are. It's a cycle of endless tantruming.

It's easy to take the other guy's money.

Look, I have no interest in the NDP. It's not personal. I'm sure many of them are fine folks and still others excelllent representatives but to me, there are too many separatists and apologists who don't even have the guts to admit it lurk about within the party ranks.

Not only that, it's not a party that remotely considers power derives in the sovereign individual - everything runs through the state first with them. Nothing they say captivates or enchants me.

"...Above all, they can depend on the NDP to keep alive the most influential delusion of the 19th century, the belief that societies can be planned by idealists without the messy chaos of buying and selling. Over the years the New Democrats have mainly functioned as the Not Party. People voted for them because they were Not Liberals or Not Conservatives.



This year, Gilles Duceppe mislaid his sense of timing, blundered dangerously toward separatism and gave Quebec a reason, at last, to vote for the New Democrats: They were Not the Bloc. That's now part of an ancient pattern. The NDP is alt. politics. It's the alternative to other parties, but it's also an alternative to reality."

You're more likely to meet a person explain they voted for the NDP to "get the Bloc" out than actually spell out any policies (of which some are not that bad I admit) or philosophy (which I simply don't share). In sum, the state is too big and we pay enough taxes.

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More of a shrewd calculation of political opportunism you can't get. Layton should be applauded for that in purely political terms.

If Layton was more popular than Harper, as someone said on something called the TV, he would have been elected Prime Minister.

The more I get into the eye of the planned idealist world, the more I see it's an unrealistic form of distorted anarchy.