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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Think about what you're saying here
They don't get your support because they care more about policies than they do about winning.
The ucp care so little about policies they are willing to scrap them if it means attaining power. Whatever it takes to attain power, for powers sake.
To cowboys point above that the liberals and Alberta party should've merged, why? To compromise their political beliefs to Garner more power? Are we better off with fewer political parties who are willing to do whatever it takes to seize the reigns, or are we better off with diverse political parties and views that give citizens options that reflect their own desires?
The ucp is a naked admission that while there were substantial differences between PC and wildrose, the most important thing was attaining power. Differences can be put aside in the pursuit of power.
Rather than change policy platform to appeal to more voters, just combine entities to pool votes, political integrity be damned. Give voters less choice so you can scoop up a larger share. That's anti-democratic.
We are all worse off with less representation.
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No, the most important thing was to stop slitting one anothers throats at the voting booth.
I was part of that thing from early on and it was individual party members that OVERWHELMINGLY voted to merge because there was just not enough difference for the two parties to continue on as separate entities. WR was 95% in favor and PC was 85% IIRC...could be wrong on numbers but it wasn't even close.
So to claim there was "substantial" differences between the two is patently false. The membership would never have agreed to the merge otherwise. There were small factions in both parties that wanted nothing to do with one another, no question, but average jane certainly was not part of that.
The majority of the Liberal part of the PC party departed and went to the AB party (and there were more than a few of those kind), and the majority of the hard core right wingers are part of Fildebrandts tire fire now. Its just that simple. This province doesnt need two large conservative parties nor does it need two "centrist" parties, though i dont think either one of them are truly "center", particularly the Liberals.
The Liberal brand is toxic in Alberta so I do not understand why it continues on the way it does...which is why amalgamating under a different (Alberta Party) banner makes way more sense than not, but nope. Continue to split the 6-10% of popular vote they get combined (though i expect that to surge up to 15% this time) and accomplish very little.