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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I'm curious to find out exactly why so many people under the age of 50 are incredibly anti-Liberal, as some people around here are (and CP is probably mostly uner 50). Tron admitted that it was practically beat into him when he was growing up that the Liberals created such chaos through stuff like the NEP, was anyone else raised like this? Not that it's a bad thing, I'm just keen to know the effect it's had on younger generations.
I grew up in a conservative household, but never have I associated early 80's federal politics with modern-day centrist provincial politics.
I should hope what happened 25 years ago is not the be-all, end-all for political choice in this country, especially with a generation now removed from that entire incident.
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I will say that in a lot of respects, I am dyed in the wool conservatives, and I come from a split household. My parents were both conservatives, 2 of my sisters are fanatical Liberals and always have been, my other sister in non political.
We were always encouraged to figure things out on our own, and we had some pretty incredible and heated political arguments.
Frankly, I was 13 when the NEP came into play and destroyed my parents business that they had sweated over and stressed over for years after my dad had given up a high paying job to follow his dream of running his own show. He bought my mom on board to to help him run it, and suddenly the NEP came on board and destroyed any kind of business environment in our province. Overnight, my parents had to sell the house to pay off their debts and got next to nothing for it, we lost our car, we went from above average middle class to dirt farmers in the span of a year.
My next thorn was when I served in the military and watched budget cut after budget cut as we transported around in 20 year old vehicles that were held together by bailing wire and bubble gum, went out on training excercises that were cut short due to budget issues, and watched as my friends and myself deployed on UN missions where were were dangerously under equipted for, all the while we were paid worse then a guy flipping burgers at MacDonalds.
I've watched the hypocrisy of the Federal Liberals for years, and I'm sure that all of their interesting policies and vendettas towards Alberta have been discussed.
But at this point it probably wouldn't matter if they changed their platform, got a western leader etc. I wouldn't trust them and would probably never vote for them.
Provincially, I have voted Liberal before, last night I didn't vote for any of the major party, but again nothing that the Liberals have said or promised provincially resonates with me, in order for them to gain my trust, they have to distance themselves from the Federal Liberals, and they have to distance themselves from their hardcore Liberal platform and become more of a middle party.