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Originally Posted by belsarius
Thanks for the response. This is all my initial post meant, bring the receipts.
I can see their point, even if I disagree with it. With regards to the farmers, it seems to me that they protested the initial bill, and mostly from a lack of clarity and a propaganda push from the Wildrose, but the NDP took action accordingly, rectified the issue and promised to do better in the future.. I am still not understanding how this was all done in bad faith?
The problem with the intelligence insulting is there are so much variation in groups. I spent 4 years in the Alberta Government thread getting called the same stupid for agreeing with the NDP policies, hell I still get it today "only a moron would agree with that". So it's not really something the NDP or the supporters are doing in isolation.
I get number 3, but are the NDP candidates not part of the community? Do people not think they will also show up to events and fundraisers? And I think it is similar in the city, just the fact that it was Rachel herself that dropped off my lawn sign just was a good feeling of being represented. And I know in smaller communities that feeling is even more intense
Pylon made some good points earlier too. I don't agree with them, but I see them as active policy points where the UCP meets his needs. I don't doubt there are a lot of people voting UCP because they match their priorities. But the vast majority of responses I have seen or heard is "communism", "venezuala", "death to O&G", "free conversion therapy!", "Trudeau-Singh alliance" and regardless of the facts these things are just parroted and at the very least makes it seem like people don't care about facts and only want to give themselves the good feels for pwning the libs.
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Well said.
Point 1. I do think the NDP handled it well, but farmers felt they earned it by showing solidarity just like their ancestors did fighting railway monopolies. I'm not saying that I agree 100%, rather I understand where they are coming from. Farmers are a class conscious occupation. There is a long history of mistrust of government dating the territory days. It's kind a "generational knowledge"
With respect to point 3, I think that the NDP candidate would be a community minded person and the better representative. That's why I voted for them.