• SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    With the current system the only reason parties shift like that is because they have to. The Erin O’Toole 2020-22 Conservatives experimented with shifting left a bit lost the election before going PP and the far right.

    Biden and Trump were fairly close in the polls for the 2024 election with Trump being the favorite. Then Kamala replaced Biden and the campaigned policy certainly moved further left. I’m also going to drop in why the current NDP is such a failure because they randomly started shifting right when they were providing with so much opportunity for success on the other side.

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      3 months ago

      I’m also going to drop in why the current NDP is such a failure because they randomly started shifting right …

      You can thank Jack Layton for that. He moved to centrist to give the party a chance at leadership of Canada, and that’s where the party has stayed since. :(

      Now they’re a far cry from their Tommy Douglas (father of universal healthcare) and Ed Broadbent days.