How do I create an NDP party in the USA, like in Canada?
Obama’s Party is too much like Canada’s Liberal Party of say Jean Chretien.
The Obama administration is all about stimulating the US economy in economically depressed cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland, programs for homeowners in foreclosure, bankruptcy prevention. And this is running the USA into deficit. What the USA Democrats FAIL at is creating innovative solutions to spur economic growth and create wealth.
Canada’s NDP Party in 1991 announced they are about "Creating Wealth" and this is missing in the USA. USA is not very innovative nowadays, doing nothing beyond the status quo and hoping and praying for an economic turn-around.
BUT with the 700 Billion Dollars thrown on GM and Chrysler, that money if instead was invested in a NEW economy instead of fixing the unfixable? NOW THAT WOULD BE AN NDP AMERICA.
Maybe I can bring the NDP back to life in Canada by introducing the greatest attributes of this party to the Lower 48? What do Canadians think of this?
Actually I like Chretien, I shouldn’t have mentioned Chretien, I meant Dion
But as an American I don’t like the US VS THEM mentality. 2-party system is not a real Democratically-run system.
Basically it means 2 things pretty much.
1) That when the economy sucks, opinion polls almost robotically oscillate back and forth between the same parties as whoever is in power is by definition to blame and hence unpopular.
2) The opposite of Party #1 becomes idolized even if it is full of flaws just because it opposes Party #1.
3) Sometimes Party #1 and Party #2 are not so different, and then what? It’s like a deceptive form of a monocratic system.
Why not just have more power to the people? More parties, more points of view, more possibilities, let people stand behind issues and not this "OBAAAAAAMA….." Why isn’t my country more clever and creative with its 300 Million people?
The NDP INSPIRES people to think creatively! You DO want them around for intermittent periods or else politics would be awfully boring.
I think NDP serves a very unique purpose to Canada but you need the right dose of them.
Well… first of all, Obama and the Democrats are most closely similar to Canada’s Conservative party and Stephen Harper. We have nothing as right as the US Republican’s.
Second, I think you should read up on the federal NDP a little more. It’s about as popular now as it’s ever been, and "creating wealth" is not a major party platform. But there’s certainly no need to bring the NDP "back to life in Canada".
I agree with you, the US two party system is flawed for the reasons you list. By default, there’s no impetus to be creative or original, because both parties are firmly entrenched with their base supporters, and have no reason to change. The biggest challenge for both the US parties, and the reason Obama was so successful, is getting the non-aligned voters to even bother voting. It’s a Catch-22, as both parties have to stay enough the same to keep their base support (by which I mean the people who give money), while trying to be new enough to get new voters out.
The size of your country works against you. For a new party to get enough support to compete and be relevant, you need to convince an incredible number of people that you’re legit. Fortunately, if you were really serious, there are so many people in the US who don’t vote, that you could try to appeal to them. If every person who didn’t vote in the last election got off their seat and voted for you, you’d be the next POTUS.
Beldemhein
19 Dec, 2010
It’s a two party system in the states. It can’t be done.
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Brianna's Mommy
19 Dec, 2010
Sorry, but I think that it may be impossible to create a third party in a 2-party system. Others have tried and failed. Plus, even in Canada, the NDP never does really well other than in Saskatchewan. Of course, if you do what the other parties do and tell everyone exactly what they want to hear, then you never know…
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K-Mart
19 Dec, 2010
The NDP is a joke in our country. Frankly their socialist ideas are flawed. Look what they did to Ontario. Put it into countless amounts of debt, and catered to all of the unions through incredible expensive, pointless contracts. Now they are in NS, which will undoubtedly mean the same thing.
Your country will never have a 3rd political party. The reasons relate to how your country was founded and why.
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Fresserheim
19 Dec, 2010
You would be smeared as Marxists and crypto Communists, and everyone who watches TV every single day would believe the propaganda of the folks who manufacture consent in America, the "opinion makers," the superrich.
Critical thinking is absent among all them glued to the television screen.
They are sheep, easily led to their fleecing, then to their slaughter.
A cynical politician once observed, "It is a good thing for the government that the masses do not think. Otherwise, human society, as we know it, might cease to exist."
A wise man once said, "Follow the money." There is your answer.
Can you imagine how brainwashed they have to be to go to Iraq and Afghanistan where they will get blown up by roadside bombs and where the people there do not want them?
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Jim B
19 Dec, 2010
I guess that you missed the news conference where Taliban Jack announced that the NDP will from now on be known as the
…….. Democratic Party !!!!!
No kidding.
They can call it what they want, but they will still be the left wing whiners that they all ways were.
Jim b. Toronto.
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BigMac
19 Dec, 2010
Well… first of all, Obama and the Democrats are most closely similar to Canada’s Conservative party and Stephen Harper. We have nothing as right as the US Republican’s.
Second, I think you should read up on the federal NDP a little more. It’s about as popular now as it’s ever been, and "creating wealth" is not a major party platform. But there’s certainly no need to bring the NDP "back to life in Canada".
I agree with you, the US two party system is flawed for the reasons you list. By default, there’s no impetus to be creative or original, because both parties are firmly entrenched with their base supporters, and have no reason to change. The biggest challenge for both the US parties, and the reason Obama was so successful, is getting the non-aligned voters to even bother voting. It’s a Catch-22, as both parties have to stay enough the same to keep their base support (by which I mean the people who give money), while trying to be new enough to get new voters out.
The size of your country works against you. For a new party to get enough support to compete and be relevant, you need to convince an incredible number of people that you’re legit. Fortunately, if you were really serious, there are so many people in the US who don’t vote, that you could try to appeal to them. If every person who didn’t vote in the last election got off their seat and voted for you, you’d be the next POTUS.
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MasterPython
19 Dec, 2010
They are practically communists. The Communist Party actually recommends that you vote for them if they are not running a candidate in you riding. Nobody would vote for them in the States. And they have horrible economic policies. Every province that elects them as a provincial government goes broke. And jobs leave the province because they pander to unions and make it unprofitable to run a business.
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