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It was finally starting to sink in with Alberta commentariat yesterday in the aftermath of the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting that the lunatics really are running the asylum, to borrow a colourful metaphor from former premier and UCP founder Jason Kenney.

“It’s true that many moderate conservatives voted UCP in May,” wrote the Calgary Herald’s Don Braid yesterday. “But they don’t run this party anymore.”

For evidence, consider the policy resolutions (officially,“policy proposals”) the more than 3,700 paid-up AGM delegates voted for, among them: Enshrining the right to bear arms; opposing federal net-zero policies; defunding university diversity, equity and inclusion offices; banning “15-minute cities” (how one might do this remains a mystery); banning solar farms; defunding supervised consumption sites; letting parents censor school libraries; allowing professionals to break ethics rules when they’re not on the clock; not allowing trans women to serve their sentences in women’s jails; and making sure children can’t chose their own pronouns or names without telling their parents. There were also at least three intended to undermine public health measures and permit medical quackery.


If this isn’t evidence of a pervasive Qanon-adjacent MAGA mentality, what is?

We’re told that many of the ‘old’ organizers from the PC’s & early days of the UCP simply didn’t attend the AGM & have largely abandoned the party,” tweeted The Breakdown. “TBA was largely unopposed.

https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/11/l...-commentariat/


I know I'm pretty hard on UCP voters, but I gotta ask how you actually feel about this? You voted in the last election for what used to be a moderate Conservative party, and now it's been taken over by a collection of christo-facist morons. Would you vote for the UCP next election, knowing what the party is becoming behind the scenes? Do you feel betrayed/tricked? Or is this all fine and nothing to be bothered about? Genuinely curious.