Chartering the NDP in the US

Hi yall, I’m from the States and I know how much yall despise Trump 2.0. Believe me, plenty of us hate him, half the country does. But another problem is the Democratic Party, and first past the post has created an illogical two party system in every state and county of my poor land. They’re just like your Liberal Party, arrogant and elitist. And even more to the right economically, because the mainstream establishment doesn’t support universal healthcare and reversing the wealth inequality in this country and a solid Green New Deal. They claim they’re more “electable”, but after losing in 2016 and 2024 and barely winning in 2020 despite a huge advantage in the polls and an enraged, engaged voter base. And they refuse to invest in state parties and let them flounder unless it’s looking to be a wave year for the party as a whole.

And there’s a contingent on the right of the party that wants to kiss and make up with Trump, and moderate on social issues like abortion and trans rights. We call them Blue Dogs, and they represent the remnants of the more conservative past of the party, when it stood for the white male proletariat and racial segregation in the South. I’m not even entirely socially progressive myself, but I’m not ready to capitulate to MAGA just because it’ll keep the party electable.

And after seeing Bernie have a discussion with Jagmeet about the crisis of wealth inequality and failure of neoliberal economics, I think the time is now for a staunchly progressive/leftist party in the United States. Especially in Democratic urban areas like New York City where the party establishment is not combatting rising rents and gentrification, where it is corrupt and used for patronage. And I was thinking about how great it’d be for the NDP to setup chapters of the party here, or at least advise the progressives and socialist opposition to get their shit together and organized. Right now there are many small parties and movements, and they only have traction in the aforementioned blue cities where Republicans are a minuscule force anyway