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Originally Posted by Torture
Okay, so let's accept Slava's point and agree both parties are bad with money.
Would you rather the party that is bad with money but is seemingly trying do the right thing and cares about Alberta, or the party that is bad with money and giving it away to their closest friends and lobbyists while catering to and encouraging the grossest far right segments of society?
That said, I'd argue that the NDP of 2023 is not the NDP of 2015, they have a much stronger slate of candidates if they were to form government. Their Calgary candidates are former energy economists, lawyers, and individuals with years of experience in their field, not the shop stewards, new grads, and union heads of the past.
Frankly, they didn't have the bench strength and weren't really ready to form government in 2015, but that's what you get when another party has been in power for 40+ years. But today, if they painted themselves blue you would have a hard time telling half their candidates apart from past Progressive Conservative Governments.
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If that's the case, why not actually rebrand the party as the new PC alternative? They'll always be tied to the Federal NDP in the eyes of many, which is probably one of the big reasons why it's so hard to get people to vote for them.