Re: RE: Who do you think should be elected as next PM?
DasFX said:
If the NDP's national policies and provincial records were so sound, then why has the NDP never come close to forming the government.
I'll have a bash at fielding this one, Rev... :wink:
It's been less than 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which marked the end of the Cold War, and people are still freaked out by communism and its effects on a country, which is understandable. I wouldn't want to see Canada become another USSR either.
However, due to the imprint of the McCarthyist tactics in the US during the '50s and the tendency for any other political party in Canada to label the NDP as communists, they have been relegated to the role of a Marxist-Lenninist Bolsheviks, which they are most definitely not.
Gotta love Wikipedia
They do not receive the recognition they deserve, because the Liberals paint them as Karl Marx, and the Conservatives paint them as Jimmy Hoffa...