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Originally Posted by Dion
Nice attempt at trying to deflect from your bigoted views. High River is not a suburb of Calgary and we are considered rural folks by most people.
My expectations from the provincial govt are just as important as those from the cities. For you to suggest otherwise is ridiculous. We are quite happy with Danielle Smith as our MLA and the work she has done advocating for our community and making the rest of Alberta aware of the culture of entitlement in the PC party. I only hope she is smart enough to bring in a platform Albertans can accept so we can get rid of the PC party.
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But you are a suburb of Calgary though. If the majority of people who live in High River worked in High River, different discussion. Since most work in Calgary, it is in effect a suburb. It just has a more rural setting, but the people don’t deal with the typical rural setting, namely one that is predominantly white and predominantly Christian. They deal with multiculturalism every single day, unlike most who live in rural settings.
The second paragraph is a promo for the Wildrose/slamming the PCs, so I’m glad you appreciate what Danielle is doing for you. I find her to be a very weak leader who passed on the chance to dismiss her bigoted candidates in the last election in favour of “they have the right to say it” (of note: She is a former Ted Morton supporter, noted former PC bigot).
Anyways if I chose my words better in the beginning no one would have said anything. I shouldn’t have made it seem like I find all rural voters to hold those views. But look at the entirety of the political spectrum in both Canada and the US. If the candidate is against equal rights for some groups(or as they like to put it, believe in “traditional values”), are pro life, pro gun etc.. the odds are they’ll be from a rural district. Such a platform doesn’t play as well in urban areas. We have a textbook example involving the Wildrose, when a couple comments from its members doomed them to fewer seats in Calgary and Edmonton than the Liberals and NDP, but cost them very little in Southern Alberta, where the nearly swept.
So yes, not all people who live in rural areas are bigots; likewise there are people in urban areas who are racists, homophobes and even Oiler fans.