Spineless, unprincipled, constantly making excuses about why they're not doing anything, unwilling to do literally fucking ANYTHING to help the people they say they represent.

What are the underlying material conditions driving this?

Here in BC, Canada, the "social democratic" NDP government recently got a majority government, which means they can do literally anything they want. Pass any legislation they want. Pass any laws, any taxes, literally whatever the fuck they want.

And what have they done? FUCK ALL. Nothing. Not a single piece of legislation that I can think of. They're taking as long as they possibly can to implement $15 minimum wage, no paid sick days, no card check legislation, fucking NOTHING. Instead of using the pandemic as the obvious reason to pass this legislation they are hiding behind it as their excuse to avoid doing literally anything useful.

This seems to be the case all over the Western world.

WHY?

  • comi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Truth is they don’t have hard underlying support, which will drag them and discard them, because unions either collapsed or also integrated into the system. If they lose, they still get paid, take potshots at %insert party here% and hope to get elected next time.

    Materially what benefit do they have to push anti capitalist policies, they won’t get consultancy gigs then later. So no losses, pure profits in selling out.