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    3 days ago

    The Alberta separatists getting brutally stomped on last week was also very nice.

    Let’s see how the American midterms go now.

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        Hey, at least Alberta’s UCP lets you look at your conservative party and think about how much worse they could have been.

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          I guess you haven’t been reading the particulars about this batch of mouthbreathers then. We’re talking Flu Trucks Clan, 51st state, aggressively stupid.

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        Conservative != Bad

        I really have been disappointed over the last few days reading comments here that amount to that.

        I haven’t voted Conservative since Harper but it was clear that in BC (I’m in Ontario) Eby shit the bed with a vote no one wanted when the system was not prepared. The voters saw through his bullshit and they punished him and the NDP accordingly.

        How about we wait and see what they do before we default to “oh no here we go downhill again”?

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          No, Conservative == Bad. It’s a shit political movement that really just consists of wrapping fascism in euphemisms. And yes, that includes your conservative party, whose platform includes cutting taxes, increasing the police force, giving NIMBYs power over zoning decisions, attacking electrification and promoting fossil fuels, repealing DRIPA, increased immigration enforcement, and anti-BDS regulation. You don’t need to give them power to find out how awful they are, you just have to read and listen to what they are saying

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          In this case, they didn’t make a good impression!

          • many candidates have expressed interest in repealing our human rights code
          • we are likely to see a sharp downturn in government/ First Nations relations
          • the party still tolerates separatists
          • pro-american views verging on seditious have not been disciplined
          • a bunch of very racist things were said without consequences
          • historically, right wing government leads to fiscal hardship in BC
          • it’s likely to get very rough tor trans people, especially youth
          • republican style rhetoric about LGBTQ+ people and programs
          • crime and punishment rhetoric (more cops, more enforcement, no address of root causes)
          • our housing problems require left-wing solutions

          BC has a pretty wacky record on right wing populism, and they’re back. UCP vibes.