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I can't get over how someone like Montreal Simon has fallen so hard for the likes of Tom Mulcair. With being so fervently embroiled in believing Quebec is going to leave Confederation tomorrow because of Harper, he and others have sold their souls to a silver-tongued, right-leaning centrist. I predict Quebeckers will be the first ones to see Mulcair for not what he is, but what he isn't, and that's a progressive. To hear Simon demonize those who have concerns about Mulcair and also refer to them as Kumbaya socialists makes me cringe.
Omar,
I've tried to say as much. Especially with the post about "the failed attack on Mulcair" where he mocks Murray Dobbin.
Simon says that he's far to the left of Judy Rebick (who he also mocked for criticizing Mulcair), so I have to imagine that his antipathy to the "kumbaya socialists" is based on his single-minded determination to beat harper.
If Mulcair is the centrist white-guy who can go toe-to-toe with harper (as opposed to the hapless Paul Martin, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff) and simultaneously appeal to enough centre-left Liberal voters to defeat harper, then I'll say that Simon has a tactical case.
I still see the disparagement of genuine (and correct) criticisms of Mulcair as totally unnecessary and unproductive.
Mulcair might be the best thing for defeating harper, but after that, we have to rebuild the Canadian political scene. We have to redeem respect for democracy and our political, legal and civil rights and re-make the case for socialism.
"Mulcair might be the best thing for defeating harper, but after that, we have to rebuild the Canadian political scene. We have to redeem respect for democracy and our political, legal and civil rights and re-make the case for socialism."
exactly. I am so glad you wrote this post. I have the same concerns.
900ft Jesus,
There's more of us. I just know it.
There's more of us. I just know it."
Count me in...
I'm afraid the Tom Mulcair Kool-Aid drinkers have sapped our numbers significantly.
Omar,
If Montreal Simon's hopes for Mulcair's electoral chances are sound though, perhaps then we can re-take the narrative.
We'd have more luck influencing the Leader of the NDP than we would the Liberals, non?
Well, you'd think that, but I can't help but see the real lefty-progressive-type leader now sits at the helm of the Liberals and the newly minted NDP leader pondered a cabinet position in Mordor. So I'll reserve judgement on who we'd have more luck influencing.
Both Rae and Mulcair are useless on Israel-Palestine.
And Rae can be counted on to lose his nerve when the getting gets tuff.
I wouldn't worry about it.
It's the whole party apparatus, etc., I'm talking about.
Say Rae did win against harper. As leftists we'd have to appeal to the lea ....
never mind. they both suck.
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