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Originally Posted by jammies
I'd guess the only party that would have done a better job would maybe have been the Alberta Party - at least in having good policies, although they'd have had the same issue as the NDP with having no experienced MLAs to put into cabinet positions. The Wild Rose would be furiously cutting taxes and cutting jobs, ending up in perhaps a slightly better deficit position but in far worse unemployment numbers, and the PCs would almost certainly be trying a strategy of inaction and propaganda dressing up that inaction as action, as they'd done for the last decade.
That's the beauty of it, no matter which of the three big parties you voted for, you'd be hearing about buyer's remorse if your guys had won. I don't disagree that the NDP has done a terrible job, but I do disagree that any realistic alternative would have been much better. I hope that next election, the almost inevitable voter anger channels itself more productively, but I know that it's more likely we end up with different circus starring different clowns.
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The problem is that since the NDP is arguably making the situation worse (at the very least not doing anything to stop it getting worse) the next party will need to swing harder to the right.