The NDP need a total reset to their internal guideposts. Right now they present themselves as the party of fluffy bull####, which is easily twisted to sound worse than it is and distracts from everything else. And it simply does not drive votes (even from people like me who agree in principle with most of that fluffy bull####).
Their platform should be expressed through a household budget, and every policy needs to relate directly back to individual pocketbooks. This will keep them grounded to reality and drop that fluffy bull#### down to a footnote of a sub-bullet point.
INCOME - probably a dozen+ bullet points on job creation/protection, labour standards, worker rights, training/education, etc. (DEI/equality might get touched on tangentially somewhere in here, but it's gotta be in blue collar terms instead of academic language)
EXPENSES
Taxes - low/medium/high income scenarios
Housing - lots of meat on this bone, but stay grounded and relate it back to rents/mortgage payments
Personal Transportation - car scenario/transit&alternate mode scenarios (climate gets touched on tangentially)
Groceries -
Clothes & Household Goods - this can be where you talk about tariffs/etc
Personal Services - supporting small/local businesses
Leisure/Recreation/Tourism -
And work on down to things like banking fees.
Not only is it a clever way to present your platform, but more importantly it should force the party to stay way more grounded than they have been lately. If you can't relate it to a personal budget item and express it with a dollar figure, then maybe it doesn't belong in your platform at all. If you get asked about Israel, you answer that you're focused on Canadian jobs and Canadian COL.
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