Canada

People don't like being told what the want is wrong, even if it is.

Quality of life, not world issues and social justice, are what makes the working class vote for a party. Your union is there to get you higher wages and better working conditions, equality is a side effect of membership, not the goal.

There's been a huge working class vacuum in Canadian politics for years that Pollievre was able to fill despite being a horrible fit ("boots not suits" while wearing $2000 suede leather shoes lol). We need real socialists and trade unionists running the NDP again.

Poilievre is a beneficiary of an enormous amount of tailwinds from right-wing political winds blowing into Canada from the south, and the fact that our social media and a lot of our traditional media are owned south of the border or aligned with that movement.

The NDP is going to face a big challenge in this environment no matter what. The NDP coffers are far from bursting at the seems, and they won't get the benefit of all that free support that exists on the right.

I'm interested to learn more about Ashton, and I really want to see the NDP have a resurgence. We need strong people going into politics for the NDP to keep the multi-party system healthy.