[Blaster86]

The above post is sort of the nutshell for this election. It misrepresents what happened, but gave the conspiracy theory touting nut job party a bat to swing in an election year. And they swung it. They got to paint the very VERY center of the aisle NDP as "left wing extremists" and people believed it because they tried something that didn't work.

NDP put forth something that has worked else where in the world as a means to remove the stigma of drug addiction and begin a path to rehabilitation and in the long run create a better situation for everyone, not just addicts. It didn't work. In part, it didn't work because the municipalities fought it tooth and nail. In part it didn't work because the people in these cities are very NIMBY by nature. We know there's a drug problem but we don't want to "know" there's a drug problem. We want to be able to pretend it's not there. Open use prevented that from happening.

The BCC didn't actually make any promises to fix the actual issue. They just promised to push it back into the closet so we didn't have to see it anymore. We want these people to die out of sight.

I am legitimately sad it didn't work for the people who are suffering every day in British Columbia. I am legitimately sad it was the noose around an otherwise fantastic government's neck. In my 38 years in BC, we have not had a more effective and productive government that worked towards the betterment of the people in BC.

I think the worst thing that could happen for BC right now is a BCC majority. The only silver lining I have in that situation is that a BCC majority is also the worst thing that could happen to the BCC, who very clearly have no plan going forward if they were to win. They would simply follow the blue print of Alberta under Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan under Scott Moe, which a majority of the BC population has no stomach for, and be out of power immediately next election.

The concern is that it's very easy to destroy, and very hard to rebuild. They would do a lot of damage in those four years. Probably even more than the Liberals did in close to 20.