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Originally Posted by BurnoutBinLaden
Okay, someone ELI5: Why are so many people convinced that Dix will fuck up, extrapolating on shit that happened over a decade ago?
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I can only give my thoughts on it...and let me start by saying, I don't like the NDP, so it is going to have a slant.
In my opinion, here's why:
1. He was Clark's chief of staff. So, he not only was a part of a failed administration, formed a large part of it. So therefore, 'some' of the ideas and policies that were enacted at that time came from, or were affected by him.
2. He stayed quiet and kept a low profile between becoming leader of the party and the beginning of the campaign...and the first thing he does is let loose a tax and spend platform.
3. The NDP have been saying they have learned, and rebuilt since their decimation in the 2001 election. Then, they vote in a leader from that era.
4. I'm all the way on #4 before I even mention the memo.
I haven't seen anything "new" and "revolutionary" in what they have done leading up to and during the campaign so far. If you learned and rebuilt so much in the years since 2001...let's see it. Make the rich pay more, make business pay more and throw that money at kittens(easy to look good projects-what are you going to say, no more money for the mentally ill and old people?) Sounds like the same old NDP.
Not only nothing new, but now basically saying no to other people's new ideas. Instant no to pipelines. Now, I don't know what the answer is to the pipelines. Am I crazy about them? Not really. But so far, we don't even know what the 'deal' is. They are going to get built. If they don't go here, then they go south. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe its not...we don't know.
And finally, they like to fuck around with business. They've already started with raw log exports.
What makes anyone think that a small group of people are so much smarter than the rest of us? The fact that they got elected? George Bush got elected to the highest office. They are titans of their individual industries? Not really. Read some bios.
But lo and behold! The NDP comes into town and suddenly make it better. We need some ferries. Let's revive a shipbuilding industry that doesn't know how to make a boat out of aluminum and have them make a fancy new boat out of aluminum. Oh! Experts in the field offer their advice and the NDP are so fucking smart, they say thanks, but no.
We are going to create jobs through exporting lumber, NOT only raw logs. Great idea. Guess what? We don't actually have the mills, the demand, or the entrepreneurs to create an industry to export more lumber than logs.
So whats going to happen?
I guarantee you, they'll go after it anyway. It's hubris. It's expensive. It's NDP.