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Originally Posted by Monahammer
We have a premier who thinks she has an overwhelming mandate due to ~5,000 votes electing her party leader in a closed party session in red deer last year.
I don't think mass opinion matters, only what opinions are cruising around her echo chamber. And I worry greatly about what opinions are in there right now.
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I agree with you entirely. She’s normalized extremist, anti-Canadian rhetoric that an minority of Albertans hold and pursued policies that the majority of Albertans have continuously opposed, even going as far as collecting data on the favourability of those things and acting against the wishes of Albertans if the outcome did not align with her desires.
Kenney was not a good soldier for the extremist group that has taken over the party, so he was put to pasture. Smith came in and made clear when it came to election time she wouldn’t run on or talk about the deeply unpopular portions of her platform, which worked, and then she started pursuing those things anyway.
Mass opinion doesn’t seem to matter. At all. Because extremists hold the power. But that shouldn’t stop us from repeatedly pointing out that these are extreme, unpopular positions and policies not shared by the majority of Albertans and certainly not by the majority of Canadians.