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Originally Posted by Resurrection
So the reigning ruling party, sorry, elected party for the last, what, 4 decades? They're off the hook? It's the people?
That's like saying its an abused womans fault for going back to her wife beating Husband. "welp, she kept going back to him so its their fault".
I realize that may sound hypocritical because I say albertans get what they deserve by re-electing these clowns, but the fault lays with the Conservative governments. The people are still wrong to go back to the same idiots.
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In politics ideology can only get you so far. The reason the PC's win every election is because they have the candidates and platform that are most responsive to the public's interests at that time. It is a very pragmatic way of campaigning and governing, as opposed to other more dogmatic styles (see the US system).
As someone who has had my toe in provincial politics, I can tell you the success of the PC party is based on how well it mirrors the wants and needs of ordinary Albertans. The public sets the policy expectation, and then the government implements it. The cycle continues weekly, monthly, yearly and ultimately election after election.
And hence Prentice is saying what he is saying: we all got into this mess together, we're going to need to clean it up together.