DEAR EDITOR:
The New Democrats are displaying intellectual bankruptcy by invoking the romanticizing of and the use of grandiose rhetoric, while avoiding what most needed saying: "We simply can't afford this."
Canada's longstanding culture of entitlement deserves blame.
The ever-demanding spoiled are merely systematic of a society off the rails, malignant from the economic reality, extremist political opportunists, demagogic media hosts and pundits, the proliferation of the "Me," a faux democracy and deep-seated ideology too far gone to fix.
It is the New Democrats' responsibility to salve Canadians' wounds, when they are not demanding candidates to hand over their social media passwords - proving that, as ideological campaigners, they need to stop criticizing their opponents.
The party is at odds with Canadians, with its stand on unions, reducing them to a level with the public, explained in ugly truths, and airing Air Canada flight attendants' dirty CUPE linen in plain sight.
They are betraying their constituents who deserve better, never will get it, and won't over what many hope they have tanked, leaving offices shamed, disgraced, and with any justice indicted and prosecuted for grievous crimes against democracy, leaving millions morally impoverished and abandoned.
It's why NDP rhetoric-free days in many communities are exceptional breaks, not the practice, and why students and others feel the devastating impact (they've) had on the lives and well-being of Canada's youths.
In fact, clear explanations exist, and plenty can be done to reduce the unnecessary political-related bloodletting.
When used as intended, words kill, maim or injure.
Sympathy, empathy and grieving won't stop it.
It's high time something did, but don't expect it from the NDP where politicians are signed up like buying toothpaste.
William Perry, Victoria
