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Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred; because he can endure very well being feared whilst he is not hated, which will always be as long as he abstains from the property of his citizens and subjects and from their women. But when it is necessary for him to proceed against the life of someone, he must do it on proper justification and for manifest cause, but above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Machiavelli, The Prince
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It's completely justifiable for Albertans to continue to punish the Liberal Party for the NEP. Induced poverty and humiliation are among the worst things to which a government can subject its citizens.
If using the NEP as a justifiable excuse to go anti-Liberal is fear-mongering, then Slava's position is pure masochism. Any centre-lefter or progressive with any conscience would be voting NDP at this point.