NDP are the initials of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ...
Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) just snuck a hip hop reference into his nomination speech for Nancy Pelosi
“Nancy Pelosi is just getting started,” he said. Pelosi is a “loving, powerful, profound, and prophetic principled public servant,” Jeffries said. “Let me be clear, House Democrats are down with NDP,” he said, referencing a 1991 Naughty by Nature song and Pelosi’s full name (Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi).
they referred to themselves yesterday as "new Democrats" in a news clip i saw.
No they are not appropriating -- they came up with these letters for obvious reasons on their own. I doubt the NDP having them is considered a plus or a connection.
Back in the early 90s, conservative Democrats started calling themselves "new Democrats", to distinguish themselves from the supposedly more left-wing McGovern-types. So this isn't anything new.
Basically, the US Democratic Party has existed under that name since the 1830s, well over a century before the NDP was founded. So the onus would have been on the old CCFers and unionists in 1961 to come up with a different name, if anyone was worried about it being apprpriated with the addition of "new" by the American party.
Let the Americans keep the name, NDP. My preference is for Canadian Cooperative Federation (CCF). A democratic socialist society, based on cooperative principles. Cooperative housing, cooperative banking, etc. Time to transition to a green, cooperative Canada?
Well the NDP isn't even "new" anymore. I agree that the CCF is what it should be.
anyway it is not the name but the values that is important. I wish they would go back to heir former ideals.
I'm in for that.
Me too
Me three. Given the failure of voting reform, maybe the NDP and Green should look an alliance. Let the right wing Greens go it alone. They can call themselves Market Greens.
Like peas and green beans and Swiss chard? Those market greens??
maybe they can rename themselves the New Green Party and hope that the Americans don't have the claim to that one either. NGP may be a name that people can sink their teeth into.
I am not sure that the word federation is essential. I suggest: Sustainability Party (make consitutional the notion of advocating for both social and environmental sustainability).
This is a non-issue, folks.
Wow, I missed the actual details of the "appropriation" when I first posted on this thread. It's even more ridiculous than I thought.
Anyone is entitled to be known by their own initials, if that's what they want. By the logic of this OP, the makers of polyethylene terephthalate had a legitimate beef against people who called Pierre Elliot Trudeau PET.
You still haven't offered an actual cite for that.
Here you go
https://twitter.com/arlenparsa/status/1080883962938040321
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supporters of Democratic Socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' calling her "AOC".
I hear Justin Welby is sending an angry letter to the US embassy.
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