Man i miss Jack Layton

NDP is electing shitty leaders, Conservatives are pretty shit right now, and the liberals are Trudeau

I just find myself really not being a fan of anybody

It's a less extreme version of how i feel about US politics

I think that's the new normal for everybody at some level.

Furthermore, coalitions shift.

In the US we are in the middle of a very big shift right now.

Once the Democrats come to power and fracture, the shift will be complete.

They can't hold their current divisions entirely.

Or if they do, it would be one **** of an act. Social Justice being the likely glue.

In which social justice would only get more extreme.

The only party we have that is consistently against increasing surveilence powers/compromising what 'free speech' rights we have, is the NDP, but they've seemingly been taken in by the SJW shit thats going around, despite having been mostly above it historically (At least in terms of race/gender/etc)
Though probably not as bad as the liberals with Trudeau

Liberals have seemed really willing to compromise those rights along with the Conservatives

Before 2013, I'd have thought that would be the Democrats. Then social justice happened. And now look where things are. The ACLU is backing away from free speech and there's fake news bills being passed around California.

Who knows anymore.

See

Our analogs for US parties are as follows

Conservatives are a more mild version of republicans

Liberals are quite similar to democrats

NDP is the further left leaning party

They're more.... old school though?

Or at least used to be.

Hence my comment about Jack Layton, which was their leader until 2011

Old school meaning old school socialist?

Kind yeah. NDP was formerly a outright Socialist party, but toned that down somewhat in the late 90's/early 2000's

Not sure how to explain it really

Comparing them to people like Bernie in the US i think actually doesnt work that well

Do they map well to Cortez?

No, not really.

Ok. try this.

Chavez? Castro? 😄

No :p

Guevera?

No.

https://i.imgur.com/v6gnGYH.png

This was their platform last election

If you read carefully, they mention repealling Bill C-51

The 'anti terrorism' bill

Which is a massive part of why i liked them that election

They were the only party interested in doing that.

Stance on:
1) Minimum Wage.
2) Rent control
3) Nationalization of industries
4) Firearms
5) vices (alcohol, weed, violent media)
6) Social Justice (as defined by feminism and racial politics)
7) Preferred taxes