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Tom Mulcair vows he will stay on as leader of NDP It's probably fair to call Mulcair out as possibly the second worst leader in the NDP's history. And there's been some pretty bad leaders since McLaughlin, arguably the NDP's worst. To be fair, the NDP's probably dead. The ideals of yesterday are buried, and the leadership group is filled with career pols and exiled neo-libs. It's time to kick these fuckers out of the party. Start with Mulcair, and work our way down the list. Get some backbone into the party. Get some real heart. Neo-liberalism is dead. It's a failed idealogy. It's ruined lives, worldwide, and enriches none but those already rich and powerful. And of the two dead entities, I trust the NDP could rise again. But it's time to stop buying the snake oil hucksters like Mulcair have been selling. Power is only important if you have heart. Power for its own sake is corrupting. This has been known for millennia, and still we allowed ours...

Harper's scum. I'll grant that. However, so is Mulcair. He's stabbed more old-guard Dippers in the back than Harper's ever managed to do in from the political battlefront. Do I wish and hope for Harper to lose this election? Yes. But I don't trust either the NDP or the Liberals to do right for Canadians, either. Both leadership groups have thrown their lot in with  neo-liberal ideology. Ostensibly free trade, although who it's free for is a roulette wheel guess. Further development of the tar sands. Half-measures somehow designed to magically halt Canada's further slide into recession. Neo-liberalism is a failed ideology. It destroys nations. Even massive states like Russia can be brought down low by it. Even rich ones like Japan are forced into decades long recession. And in this election, we have a choice between two neo-liberal parties, and one neo-conservative party. Not much of a choice, is there? Harper offers nothing. He's a spiteful, hateful...

I'm done with them. I don't even care about them. They wanna continue purging candidates, as Dr Dawg describes it , then all the power to them. They wanna adopt neo-liberal policies, then fine. I'm done. The NDP wants to take the neo-liberal route to power, then fine. I don't. When, in the end, the only difference between Harper and Mulcair is facial hair, then I don't even want to bother. Fuck 'em. I don't care enough about defeating Harper if the only option is to insert Mulcair into that very same seat to pursue the same goddamn policies. What I want is complete and utter repudiation of the Israel first policy. I want the Tar Sands wound down, and the land eventually returned to farming and grazing, if at all still possible. At the very least, I want an NDP leader who will brook disagreement on these issues within his own goddamn party. If Mulcair can't handle dissent within his own ranks, then he can have my rebellion, instead. Fuck Mulcair. F...

The Squamish Chief Er, yay. I think. The federal NDP's betrayed core principles to get to this point in the polls. At this point, today's NDP would be unrecognizable to the parties of yesteryear. Mulcair. He'd make a good Liberal Party member, but he's really nothing more than an environmentally concerned neo-liberal. Let's be honest, here. The Dippers are no longer Dippers if they've elected such man to be their party leader. The NDP as a party of principle is dead. And long buried. And even if he's concerned with the environment, his solution is to transform Canada in to a hybrid economy. At this point, that's probably simply too much of a half measure. A worthless intention. To protect Canada, and to lead and inspire other first world nations toward a greener future, now, probably requires far more radical measures than anything Mulcair's ever even considered. I honestly don't even know who I'll vote for in my riding this coming elec...

'Helping Assad is shameful,' Mulcair says of proposed mission expansion into Syria Supporting Assad is shameful. He's a terrible man, but at the same time, ISIS is probably worse. But in the end, we probably should've left the whole thing alone to begin with. And by we, I actually mean the US government, which seemed giddy at the time to be working to destabilize another Middle-Eastern/African nation's government. We, Canada, should probably reconsider blindly supporting the US on every one of its military misadventures. The only difference we're making, and by we I mean NATO, is making things worse. Next time, let's not hesitate to refrain from rushing in to the next conflagration. Let's actually take some time to think things through. Using our noggins first might actually make the biggest difference of all. Of course, that's actually quite a whole lot to ask of the Harper regime here in Canada, but still.