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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Using Reddit as a benchmark for public sentiment?
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Social media forums in general are majorly liberal and left leaning, including these off topic forums. You can attribute it to 'more educated', 'more informed' more urban, all sorts of reasons if you wish, but they are not representative of the population as a whole, as you pointed out as well.
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If that was the case, the NDP would have been elected in Alberta by a country mile.
But if we're going to play that game, it's probably worth noting what are among the top stories in the Alberta reddit are too - and remember, this is just what today brings:
- Canadian Oil and Gas 75% owned by foreign stakeholders.
- For those living in fire evacuated communities, why did you still vote for the group that took away your fire suppression funding?
- Banff-Kananaskis UCP Candidate Gave a Victory Speech - But Lost Her Riding
- Smith to create 'council of defeated' to advise on Edmonton issues
- Fort Chipewyan, accessible by boat and air only, ordered to evacuate
I mean . . . . *shrug*
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Well...yeah...Reddit is extremely liberal...lol.
Look at British Columbia's subreddit they are singing Kumbaya over there and most of the posts are about the Alberta exodus (at least today).
Meanwhile here it's a pandemonium of anger and hysteria. This forum is largely an echo chamber and with it being largely left leaning, the comments and thanks are largely resorting to partisanship, no matter how reasonable the post may be. See the reaction I got simply bringing census stats and the thanks of those posts offering their rebuttal.
The stats however, which is what I was pointing out, is that Alberta has a net positive intraprovince migration of over 2 to 1.