it's been clear for months - years - that singh was not going to be able to capitalize on the unpopularity of trudeau, which is a catastrophic failure. the ndp should have been the go-to after trudeau's collapse.
but that is like playing around of the children's game, who made god. god. but who who made god?
god.
so, why are the ndp dying? and, round and round you go, until you get to this:
this is the cause. this is not an effect.
what is happening to the ndp is that the ndp are sucking terribly at social media and it's utterly destroying them in the polls. this may be the first canadian election where social media truly overt takes television, and just look at that. ouch.
well, look at their leader, spokesperson and mascot.
listen, i've been saying this for years, and i'm not just being mean. i have a vested interest in a strong ndp. they need to exist. and this guy is a pr nightmare.
however, if you're paying attention, you really it's not just jagmeet singh that's tilting the party in this dead end direction. that graph is a cause, and mr. singh is the root cause of the graph. but mr. singh is a symptom of his party, and not the root cause within it.
if the ndp lose party status, they will have to make some hard choices on what they want to be in the future. they may double down, or they may try to refocus, but they'll never be what they were a mere few years ago. do upper middle class canadian migrants need a party of their own? maybe there's enough of them that they do.
the canadian left should focus strictly on the greens.