I know that most people were engrossed in Prince Justin’s coronation this weekend, but another notable event also happened in Canadian politics. The NDP had a policy convention.
Nothing much of note happened, except that chief radical* Barry Weisleder was ejected from the NDP convention.
You know how it’s the ‘new’ NDP? How people question the association of marxists and socialists with the ‘modern’ NDP? Yeah, nothing says we aren’t socialists like ejecting the head of the Socialist caucus from your policy convention.
What’s that?
#NDP13: disruption on floor led to socialist Barry Weisleder’s credentials being revoked. Review revealed confusion. Credentials restored.
— Joanna Smith (@smithjoanna) April 13, 2013
Oh, never-mind.
* I had a very similar beard for several years. Growing a beard doesn’t necessarily mean you are a radical. Given my political leanings at that time though it may actually mean you are a radical.
Old socialists never die, they just squawk away….
“This isn’t your father’s NDP”
No shit, I’ve been wondering if this is even his country anymore.
Overseas for 4 entire years defending this country’s freedom during WW II, he would be heartbroken to see how the party system has irresponsibly squandered our wealth and threatened our very independence.
The hardcore partisan twits are so hateful of their competition that they completely fail to see the existing political parties have far more in common than they have differences. They are ALL in a system where it has become the status quo to put their party’s fortune ahead of their country’s. If you can’t see that you are either willfully blind, hopelessly polluted by rhetorical partisan “groupthink” or simply stupid.
As for my late dad and the NDP, I think he would be most concerned about where our true conservatives have gone.
This fellow is a communist. Pure and simple.
Observer, even our Canadian Conservative party has adopted or continues to support many of the socialist policies that Hayek warned about, and that would eventually lead to totalitarianism.
Canadian Observer;
So well said. The Dippers are no different from the Liebels or the CPC. The message will be couched in whatever terms required to garner the votes required. The most laughable example is the provincial BC Liebels. They assume the right of center conservatives will vote for them at the end of the day so move left to attract Dipper votes. No philosophical base at all. The last politican I heard any grain of truth from was Ron Paul.
Barry Weisleder is a refreshing throw back to a time when leftists were leftists. I suspect now a days that a statist cuckoo has pushed its way into the nest.
Really, feminists who don’t care about women wearing potato sacks? Queers who are chummy with homophobic religions? These are not socialists, but dupes being used as cover.
Who are the parasites who have infiltrated the left and are using its hide to cover their greed and lust for power? Whoever it is, it is not Barry Weisleder and his followers.
This “working people” phraseology that socialists always use makes me yawn.
The DIP exec has been taken over by globalists – essentially lib-left progressives (old LPC patronage fixers and UN NGO frumps) who want to play footsie with transnational crony finance syndicates – they own the UN and most of their NGOs and policy tanks, now they intend to own the NDP seeing as their old party the LPC is stagnant.
Contrary to the naive, juvenile political rhetoric this deluded socialist spews, it is not “capitalists” and “war mongers” who run the planet – it is transnational monolists who are aligned with dlobalist statist socialist governing cabals – the very type who booted the real trade unionists from the NDP and made it a tool of globalist policy. It isn’t “moving to the right” there is no “right”, just as there is no “left” in the charade of modern partisan politics in so called democratic nations. There is only the ruling catel of the day aligned with the proper special interests which will profit both. Political ideology is for the unempowered, unconnected chumps who pay the cartel’s bills and think democracy is still uncorrupted by a pluralist party system which represents the same narrow special interests.
Poor deluded socialist still lives in a utopia painted for him in the 19th century redski comic books he buries himself in. The socialist movements in the worlds mega-states have turned into willing tools of crony capitalism/corporatism as per the US, China, Russia and the EU. Maybe he should move to Cuba if he wants the real commie utopia.
Let the NDP move closer to the center. They will split the vote with airy fairy Trudeau. Cons come up the middle. He he.
Remember that Mulcair is blinded by his thirst for power and Trudeau thinks he is simply entitled to the job.
I think Harper will play these two like a grand master plays chess.
“Old socialists never die, they just squawk away….”
Ain’t that the truth. And no place is this more evident than in good old Saskatchewan. One still hears grumbling about the province’s newfound prosperity. Too much traffic, too many new housing developments, too many damned immigrants working at Tim Horton’s, McDonalds and Walmart, too many out-of-province license plates and it now takes five minutes longer to make the daily trip to the Co-op pharmacy. These old socialists continue to wallow in bitterness over the epic beatdown that the NDP took in the last election and can only watch in helpless frustration longing for the return of the days of potash nationalization, big unions running the show and mindless government misadventures (Spudco comes to mind).
Good comment,co.
The NDP would do well to boot Weisleder and his ilk to the sidelines,if Weisleder was more honest,he’d run for office under the Communist Party banner.
Socialist Internationale? Never heard of it,there IS a Communist Internationale, maybe Weisleder was softening the reality by substituting a word that is still respectable in Canadian politics,but shouldn’t be.
Every socialist or communist I’ve ever spoken to is great when it comes to repeating the dogma, but beyond that it becomes apparent their plan is to FORCE people to adhere to their agenda.
Totalitarianism is the only way so-coms can work their magic on the people,and they invariably do just that.
This isn’t your fathers NDP
Too true . Its now the Unions, with their Marxist brothers Party.
Its the Party of inclusion which means exclusion for anyone who is not
A raving communist or totalitarian. Having a convention for fascists to scream hatred is not worthy to be televised . Least folks pick up what this group is really about.
Weisleder might well be right with regards to the history of NDP policy, but he’s completely ignorant about both the economic crisis and war.
The world’s economic problems are caused by government intervention in the economy, which is contrary to true capitalism.
War is fomented by governments who believe their citizens’ lives belong to the state – a belief that is 100% consistent with socialism and 0% with capitalism.