Progressives Better Prepare for Disappointment in 2015

Seems that since the New Democrats have eclipsed the Liberals to become the Official Opposition that nobody is interested in the Layton camp to attempt to work with the third party to attempt any sort of united progressive opposition to the Conservatives.  I figured that this would occur, given how eager the New Democrats and their earlier incarnation the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation were in replacing the Liberals on the left-wing side of the spectrum.

I think this is still a mistake if progressives intend on attempting to remove Stephen Harper and the Tories from government at the ballot box in 2015.  I believe that the New Democrats will in fact solidify their hold over the progressive vote in the country and further relegate the Liberals to a more marginal third party status, but that process will not be quick enough to produce a change of government in four-years time.  New Democrats may think that the re-alignment on the left will eventually be beneficial to the country, and that's possible, some will argue probable, but you may regret not making the tactical decision to work with the Liberals in the short-term if the Tories are able to institutionalize the full wrath of neoliberalism and all of its social woes into the Canadian federal government.  If you're victorious in a theoretical 2019 federal election, you may find it extremely difficult to reverse the decisions made by the Conservatives and especially the effects of those decisions.