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Originally Posted by Firebot
I updated my post after you posted, but it has less to do with team 'blue', than it does to have team 'orange'. Alberta is by and large a conservative province and our main resource remain oil & gas and the energy sector.
Liberal as a brand is completely dead in Alberta due to their federal cousin undermining Alberta in the 80s. Anything with the word Liberal is extremely toxic here.
And the Alberta NDP only recently became a viable alternative who got in on 2015 on a protest vote at a time when the right vote was split. If you look at 2015's platform and 2023 they are very different, and the NDP and Notley smartly moved to to the right / center from their original stance once they got a mandate, knowing they had an opportunity here. But it's incredibly difficult to win Albertan minds when you have this from Singh branding the same orange NDP.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star...manifesto.html
Albertans associate the brand NDP with a total ban on fossil fuels and cutting our economy by the neck with no remediation plan. It doesn't matter if we go out and debate that the ANDP is for oil, when we are also told they are the same party and membership in one is membership in all.
Rebrand and call it the Western Progressive Albertan Party. Honestly it will get the dumber folks who vote on party name alone to perhaps vote for it. |
You start here and end there. The problem is not NDP voters, it's ignorant Conservative ones, so you eventually got to the correct answer.