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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Judging from many comments I've read on this forum and *shudder* newpaper comments sections, many far-right posters really do think Redford is a left-wing extremist like Jack Layton and the Alberta Liberals and NDP are following in the footsteps of Marx, Lenin, and Mao.
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My Thoughts on how some parties are getting labelled differently on the right-left spectrum in this election:
I don't really think it' unfair to label Redford as Liberal if the word 'blue' is put in front of it. She's more Liberal in the mold of Paul Martin than Stephane Dion and more 'conservative' in the mold of Joe Clark than Stephen Harper. The problem for her is that the Province seemed to have no problem voting in Stephen Harper's Conservatives last May to the tune of 60%+ support and threw Joe Clark's PC party to the dogs vs. the Canadian Alliance the last time he led the federal PCs.
As for the Liberals being called massive lefties, I actually can see how some people can honestly believe that and not suffer from delusion. Look at the policies of the Liberal Party platform and put it right up against the NDP's platform. Hell look at Taft's platform from 2008 vs. Sherman's 2012 platform. There's a whole lot more income redistribution going on in Sherman's platform! Looking at the NDP platform outside of a couple of NDP pro-union axes to grind they look very similar to the Liberals. In fact if you make $250k/year in this province, the Raj Sherman Liberals actually want to take a magnitude more of your income in taxes than Brian Mason's NDP.