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Originally Posted by Playfair
The extreme partisanship and lack of balance in discussion on Calgarypuck over the years is astonishing. When I joined it was a very conservative based site, but it was also balanced - calling out wrongs on either side while also not slamming the other side other. Other then those who committed Fata's.
Yes I guess I am speaking politically, but it is also a maturity matter. Seems that we have slowly over the years have become HF board. I find that sad.
I always appreciated the balanced approach in the past and learned a lot about both sides, whether it be politics, hockey, world events, etc. Now it seems the site has become like the news and the world in general - polarized.
Forgive me if it is off topic, it is just an observation as a long time lurker.
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When you joined, the conservatives were progressive. Or at least they pretended to be progressive by putting it in the party name. 20 years ago we would comment about how the PCs and Liberals were both very centrist parties and the main differences between them was some spending.
But then both the Federal and Alberta Provincial PC parties merged and were largely taken over by far-right parties.
- The Federal Conservatives are more Reform than PC
- The Alberta UCP are more Wildrose (or worse) than PC
This really isn't a problem with CalgaryPuck, or any other political conversation, the problem is that the right wing parties are moving hard into far-right ideologies and are constantly attacking the other parties as extremist to try and hide how extreme they have become.
Many of these conservative politicians are grifters and false populists who will lie and steal for personal gain and completely ignore accountability and responsibility to the people who voted for them. They are living on the brand name of past conservative parties and hoping no one is noticing that they have no intention of honouring that trust that many conservative voters are blindly putting into these new "conservative" party.