(06-05-2022, 09:45 AM)timio Wrote: It's unfortunate, but the NDP and Liberals need to do better in both leadership and policy if they want to take on the Dumpster Fire that is the current PC party.
They also need to learn how to reconnect with everyday people. As in, all people.
The left will go all in for the alphabet people, but then totally ignore the common working class Canadians who overwhelmingly seem to vote for the PCPO even if it isn't in their best interest at times. The average working class family doesn't give a shit about things like trans people using certain bathrooms, gun bans, sex-ed in school, idenity polics, vaccines, face masks or whatever. They want to know their livelihoods are going to be safe and sound, whether that's policy that's pro-manufacturing, pro-infrastructure, unions, wages, investing, taxes, provincial debt and so on.
I know the NDP or OLP do touch these sort of topics, but their messaging is shit. Nobody wants to vote for some clown wearing a vest (lol at the vest) or someone who just whines about how bad the other party is. Connect with the very people who vote for the party you're trying to beat. Go into their territory, their world, their lives. Listen, watch, learn, understand. Doug Ford may not do that himself but for some reason he (and the PCPO in general) are good at pulling in votes from certain segments of our society that the left just seems to ignore or vilify. "We need to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for children! And also ban legal guns even though it's illegal guns that are used in virtually all crime!" Like, no, shut the hell up. Tell parents how they'll have better child care, health care, have their wages raised, find it easier to buy a house or rent, propose improvements to help their children get into trades or higher education and just benefit from proposed changes in society overall. And do it in a way that they can build trust and faith in your party.
The ONDP and OLP failed because they weren't saying the right things to connect to people. They basically got publicly humiliated by people every step of the way. Doug Ford and his entire party sat back, watched these two morons and their entire parties eat each other alive and sailed into another 4 years of a majority government while laughing at Del Duca and Horwath being such failures that they had to step down.
Politics in Canada is pathetic.