The argument with Slava on this stuff just... how is it difficult to understand that "yeah, but the UCP is even worse! Look at how terrible the UCP is at the same thing you criticized the NDP for" is not a counterargument to "both of these are bad options"?
In any other circumstance, refusing to vote for an NDP still run by the same Rachel Notley who presided over the power purchase contracts debacle would be totally reasonable. As would refusing to vote for either party. It's only in this narrow circumstance where you simply have to vote for them because the other option is utterly and completely non-viable and must be prevented from being given a mandate to run the province that a vote for this NDP becomes a necessity. There's absolutely a centrist, or conservative, place to stand politically where you're not completely insane but you're holding your nose while you vote NDP because the "Take Back Alberta" UCP is going to be orders of magnitude worse than the NDP was last time.
All that said, I have quite a bit of optimism the Notley NDP will be better this time and won't make dumb, easily avoidable mistakes.
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