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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
The leave if you don’t like it bit really grinds my gears. I’m third generation Albertan. My grandkids are fifth. My grandparents on both sides were homesteaders. One was here before roads or even a province. This is my home and I’m not leaving because some Johnny Come Lately rightist extremists want to remake the province in their vision. I guarantee their vision wasn’t shared by my parents or grandparents. I have a better idea. How about the right wing extremists get tf out of this province. I emphasize extremists. I’m fundamentally right oriented, as are most Albertans. But Trumpism has nothing to do with traditional RW conservatism.
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There was a time in Alberta when social services were protected, and conservative governance meant more adherence to economic mechanisms that temper public spending - in other words, fiscal constraint but with community values in mind. And at the same time, conservatism also respected the rights of individuals and their freedom to be themselves, as it was no place of the government's to be inspecting people's personal lives and judging them accordingly.
Modern conservatism has wandered so far from that once respectable public policy approach and gone down the populist rabbit role peddling dangerous answers, it's hard to see it return to its former self.