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Originally Posted by Spurs
You think the UCP will improve this?
Can you point to reasons why? Limiting access to education, health care, livable wages etc. isn't going to help reduce crime. It isn't going to help the people already struggling with addiction and poverty often resulting in them committing crimes.
This is another perfect example of why UCP voters are dumb. They don't look at what each party will actually do to address their concerns they just go with outdated myths that Conservatives= crime and punishment so will reduce all these issues, which isn't the case in anyway.
Every issue you raise is a concern of mine and my family which is part of the reason I will vote NDP because I trust them much more to address those issues than I do Smith and the UCP.
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I actually don't think the UCP will improve things that your discussing to the degree a lot of us want truthfully.
A trend I have noticed with some people as I mentioned is uneasy with the UCP, unhappy with their overall performance but concerns with some of the aspects of some left policies, wokeism, social justice issues etc. A lot of people are also very comfortable with the NDP now more than ever.
The NDP has also seen those concerns from their previous campaign and time in government and is trying hard to counter some of those concerns. They are trying to appeal to more common folk/working class people that's why some of the marketing is about Notley "comfortable in jeans and a hard hat"
These type of things happen in campaigns and after a party wins/loses, they do a deep dive into what went wrong. I have mentioned this before but the NDP has completely changed their rural strategy going into 2023 election. Listening a lot more to the concerns and issues affecting rural Albertan's. Analysis showed they did a piss poor job while in government and in 2019 What worked with a fractured right in 2015 won't work this time around. That's the shift has occurred.
It's not that UCP voters are dumb/ NDP voters are smart or vice versa, it's that parties make mistakes, leaders make mistakes, campaigns matter.
I don't know who will win the election but I am sure if the NDP win's, some of the concerns brought up by people here about the UCP will be valid but if the UCP win's I am sure the same will be true for concerns about the NDP. It's politics and the game that get's played.