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Originally Posted by Playfair
Just an observation I’ve made. I have lurked on this page for awhile. Post a little bit. But it’s interesting how the dynamic of this page, which was once far more conservative, has become quite liberal. Also being located in Alberta seems, at least to my observation, out of sync with the rest of Alberta. I may be way off base, and it is a very generalized view, but it is what I’ve observed. Maybe because the definition of “liberal “ and “conservative “ has changed drastically since I joined. Maybe the changes in society in general. I don’t know. Forgive me if I shouldn’t have posted this but it is something I’ve been observing over the years.
Nevertheless I always have appreciated this page and all of you.
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I think because the site skews demographically to college educated urban professionals who are around 40 you are a more liberal population then the typical Albertan is portrayed as. Perhaps it’s a bubble but in that world most are socially liberal or at least don’t care. The Anti choice, anti LGBT people in that group either stay well hidden or don’t exist. It’s just not even a discussion.
So with that as a starting point the modern conservative movement is at best a hold your nose and vote on economics party.
Then the economic portion as become libertarian nationalism over conservatism.
This leaves many of the historically conservative posters who are still here as political orphans. Essentially few will defend the UCP because they are just far to the right of anyone urban college educated person under 40.