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Originally Posted by kermitology
I’m not sure that people are glossing over it, I think that there are people who want to ensure that the social and infrastructure debt we incurred over the last 40 years isn’t perpetuated by a bunch of promises. I personally think that the UCP will say anything to get elected. That their plans won’t help us in significant ways.
Moreover I’m just extremely fed up with politics these days. We are so focussed on how terrible one party is over another and it’s creating this partisan divide.
We don’t think about making decisions that will help everyone. I’m honestly sick and tired of this argument that the economy is the only thing that matters. It does, but so do things like education and healthcare. The NDP were amateurs in the last 4 years, not disagreement. But instead of trying to do something good for everyone while we had this government, the focus has been in trying to prove how wrong the other side is instead of working together to find a way forward for all of Alberta.
The whole political landscape, provincially, federally and around the world makes me sick, and I’m fed up with it.
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That's a fair response. And I agree, politics are not exactly at a great spot right now. The reality is, who would want to enter into politics with the amount of smear campaigns and looking back into private lives that goes on.
The only person that can run is somebody who 1) hasn't made any mistakes in their lives (which means they haven't had the opportunity to learn from it or 2) their egos are large enough that they can handle these things being brought up in their past and not care about them.
Either way, politics tend to attract not the top calibre of people, which is unfortunate.