Scout - you make great assumptions that the NDP hasn't changed over the years.
One has to be in denial to not see a general shift to the left in politics. Big government, big social programs, big bureaucracy, and education that teaches looking to government to solve every problem.
We've just become more vocal, and less inclined to take the blame for poor and lazy policy decisions.
Tories are mostly red, Liberals are big state socialists, and the NDP is bat#### crazy, full stop.
You cannot reason with the irrational.
People who have this cradle to the grave mentality are never going to agree to leave the collective You alone and cease meddling in your life
Churchill said something about the efficacy of feeding crocodiles...