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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
That's a fair assessment and comment. But I don't believe the UCP are some evil empire you are insinuating here.
You could pick any party in an province currently in power and depending on where you sit in the socially and economically and find many many things that have created harm for you and your community.
Same could be said for the NDP. They were very harmful to rural communities when they were in power in Alberta. But they did a lot of good too for some communities.
Good candidates are good candidates, regardless of party.
I get CP is pretty much ABC, but I will always advocate for non-partisan discussion where I can!
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I’m not saying the UCP are an evil empire, how can you advocate for non-partisan discussion while throwing stuff like that out there and painting CP as “ABC”? I would think that while advocating for treating MLAs as individuals and not as party stand-ins, you would be more inclined to treat posters as individuals and avoid painting CP with a broad brush, no?
What I am saying is that the UCP has done enough damage that voting for someone running under the UCP banner because they’re a good person and the damage could have been even worse without them is… not a compelling argument to me. The UCP have been awful from a financial side of things. They blow money as bad or worse than any provincial government I’ve seen, they replaced an unlikeable but competent leader with an unlikeable and incompetent leader, they’ve made changes to education I disagree with and I fundamentally disagree with their views on healthcare and taxation. For the things they’ve done that I could, in theory, agree with, I feel they’ve done them poorly (provincial park fees) or been forced to do them by the federal government and created worse programs instead of better ones (childcare subsidy, carbon tax).
I liked Prentice, I was hopeful for Kenney. I‘ve even gone to bat for Jean. I am not a conservative but I have tried to see the best in every Conservative politician, preferring they have to prove me wrong than prove me right. But Smith is terrible, the UCP have an awful track record, and nothing about them gives me hope that the future will be different, so why do I owe a UCP MLA a chance at my vote? Why should i have to ignore everything to give them a chance when they’re already in government and have done SFA to change the negative direction of the UCP?