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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
The UCP really have dug their own grave. Even if you take the platforms out of the equation and voted just for the person running, I can imagine only a few backbenchers are worthy of a vote. The UCP has assembled such an unlikable roster of people. The entire caucus is downright nasty.
Unfortunately the Liberal party and the Alberta party are not serious contenders.
Although there are many NDP guys in this forum, and they dip into the 'talking point frenzy' now and again, the majority of people (like me) probably just really dislike the UCP. It's not just the premier, it's rotten to the core.
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Bingo.
I don't really care for the NDP—I thought they did
okay in their four-year term in government—but I detest the UCP. I had written this before in the since-closed "Thread 2.0": the NDP were incompetent and naïve (particularly 2015-2017), but the UCP are contemptuous and malicious. I honestly believe that, and there's nothing about the UCP's policies and government in the last three years that has me convinced otherwise.
I disagreed with many NDP policies, or the way in which their policies were implemented. E.g. the coal-fired power plant PPAs was a massive mistake. However, I think the underlying reason was sound: let's get rid of these nasty, highly polluting coal power stations. They're bad for our environment. The light bulb installation program funded by the carbon tax revenues is another good example. I thought the implementation was a little dumb (in that one had to have a prequalified contractor come in and screw some LED light bulbs in), but the underlying reason was good: let's get older inefficient incandescent bulbs replaced with new LED lamps that are an order of magnitude more efficient. I thought funding it through the carbon tax was great.
Whereas with UCP policy I see malice and contempt underlying many of their decisions. When all the educators in the province are telling the government their new curriculum is crap, why continue to push it? Why privatize provincial park land? Why even entertain coal mining at Grassy Mountain, let alone push it? Why hand control of the teachers' pension plan over the AIMCo when they didn't want it? Why cut AISH funding (and later reinstate it and act like you're heroes and deserve a pat on the back)? It was all seemingly done in bad faith.
The message I get from the UCP is "if you're not one of our cronies you're worthless scum to us", and their policy decisions are driven more by wrongful intentions (e.g. ####ing around with the school curricula and pushing charter schools and 'voucher' programs) than anything. I truly, honestly believe the UCP do not have consideration for anyone else's best interests. From where I'm standing they actively want to wreck Alberta more than help. That's why I absolutely cannot stand them.