I still don't understand how Smith ever had a high approval rating after decades of politicking, lobbying, and floor crossing. Smith's values are buyable, and her opinions are garbage.
The Wildrose and PCs had to merge to defeat the ANDP, and quickly turned revisionist that the deficit that the PCs tossed at the ANDP and then turned it around and blamed them for the piss poor contingency and management after 40 years of PC rule.
The UCP is a toilet flush of everything this province ever built up. And were quick to wipe clean any lasting sign of the NDP ever holding power with undoing the ongoing plans for the superlab, amongst other things.
It didn't even take the UCP four years to out do PC levels of corruption and entitlement and thumb their noses at their own voting support base.
This is why the conservatives united. There are many flavors of conservative here, and when they united, the right was no longer a split vote. I have said multiple times that the worst thing conservatives ever did to this province was unite. I wish they would separate again, but why would they with all these extra votes? I can't vote conservative again while UCP is in power, so I'm switching to NDP, even though I don't think they will align completely, but the corruption of the UCP leadership is too much for me to handle now.
The reality is, is that the andp IS a conservative party. The cons claim they are a far left party, but that's only because the cons have moved so far to the right.
This.
The UCP is taking us back to the SoCred times on the religious front combined with some kind of pseudo libertarianism (lower taxes for businesses, rugged hardship for everyone not earning six figures, and mudding the waters so much that we wouldn't know if anyone was doing a good job with anything). While the ANDP is like Lougheed Conservatives (with a dash of unrealized environmental idealism).
Despite all the doom and gloom pronouncement that we would be living in communist Russia under the ANDP, none of that happened. Granted there were some early stumbles with paying for early shut down of coal fire energy plants (actually considering that climate change is a thing) and trying to introduce some new farm safety regulation so kids wouldn't play in grain silos, but there was immediate blow back from citzens that didn't want government safety inspectors with little farming knowledge coming in on private land uninvited.
Under ANDP, we had rate caps, we had discount LED bulbs, and the ANDP was quite balanced at its approach to keep us moving along during the crude price slump.
Exactly, but just because we have a higher labour participation rate and a get 'er done attitude doesn't mean that I want to be setting a finger at home with popsicle sticks and duct tape.
I want my tax dollars to go towards things that matter and stretch further, not some billionaire's bank account because they got my city to front money for a new arena all to pay more for tickets (but I get that it offers long term benefits for our city), and certainly not so Danielle Smith can travel to the states to punch down at soft targets with fanciful stories of things that don't happen.
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u/Different-Ship449 7d ago
I still don't understand how Smith ever had a high approval rating after decades of politicking, lobbying, and floor crossing. Smith's values are buyable, and her opinions are garbage.