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Dear NDP supporters upset that people are upset at @theJagmeetSingh ...
I can& #39;t speak for anyone else, but I woke up excited the day after the election. I would have liked @CanadianGreens to get more seats and @CPC_HQ fewer, but it was the minority I had wanted.
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I can& #39;t speak for anyone else, but I woke up excited the day after the election. I would have liked @CanadianGreens to get more seats and @CPC_HQ fewer, but it was the minority I had wanted.
#cdnpoli
Here, silly me thought to myself, was a chance for the progressive parties to prove that all their talk about cooperation and better politics in a minority PR-like government was true. Because, you know, I hadn& #39;t believed it really.
I know PR/minority are not the same thing.
I know PR/minority are not the same thing.
But they& #39;re enough alike that the basic requirements for success are nearly the same. Co-operation, professional and civil inter-party discourse, supporter buy in to compromise and cooperation.
I was so excited that we might be the lucky recipients of government by grown ups, working together for everyone& #39;s benefit.
Then Singh started to act ... I don& #39;t know ... like a kingmaker. And my excitement started to fade. Fast.
Then Singh started to act ... I don& #39;t know ... like a kingmaker. And my excitement started to fade. Fast.
All the divisive, posturing, stuntish, big talk was there. Right where I not only didn& #39;t expect it, but where I thought was the least likely source. It felt like we& #39;d traded Scheer for Singh. The majority trade off was looking like a dumb move.
All that positive energy I had seen in the NDP leadership campaign had turned to negativity and the same old, same old. I realized he wasn& #39;t going to co-operative, he was going to be combative.
I know it& #39;s naive, but you all kept telling us about the magic of cooperation.
I know it& #39;s naive, but you all kept telling us about the magic of cooperation.
Maybe it& #39;s just the crap going on in America and my obsessive desire not to go there or anywhere close to there. Maybe it& #39;s because I thought the election results meant that we understood what was at stake.
So. Yeah. I& #39;m not remotely upset that Singh wants things, wants concessions, wants progress. I hope so. I& #39;m not upset that he has an agenda. I& #39;m not upset that he& #39;s determined to move some files forward. All good.
But I am upset that he& #39;s trying to grandstand through Twitter and negotiate through the media. That& #39;s what Donald Trump does and, nope, it& #39;s not only not okay with me, I& #39;m angry and *concerned* about it.
Maybe he& #39;s just trying to keep his base motivated. But what he should be doing, and what I *thought* he& #39;d do, is to help guide his base away from politics by confrontation and towards politics by cooperation.
