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Originally Posted by DJones

Haha, not anyone that talks to me, they're the good ones. You guys are kinda proving his point.

And its not like you'd agree with their reasoning anyway, you just hand wave it as greedy and stupid and continue on. It's mainly a matter of priorities. Someone that votes NDP wants the government to tax and spend. They value the government about how much money and services they provide people. BC jacking up spending is a sign of good leadership for example.

I think it’s a little naive to say a voter supports one party and not another because they want that party to tax and spend. They all do that. If you don’t believe the UCP would raise your taxes go ask any property owner in the city of Calgary to see their most recent property tax bill.

A UCP voter doesn't look at it like that. They go, here is your budget based on today’s taxes, figure it out. In the mean time get out of my way so I can hopefully get a pay raise at work.

The UCP have consistently failed to “figure it out” when it comes to budgeting within the expected tax revenue. They have also literally passed laws that get in the way of people trying to get a pay raise at work and at the same time passed laws that allowed employers to pay employees less than they were required to prior to passing those laws.

Inevitably leads to knee jerk reactions where typical UCP person views the NDP as leeches. Typical NDP person views the UCP as greedy and stupid. Meanwhile 90% of people can't tell the difference between them and the two parties agree on 80% of things

Knee jerk reactions? The UCP have had the opportunity to address a lot of long standing issues and are instead doubling down on those while throwing money we don’t have an unlimited supply of at problems they primarily created.

The way you separate people into boxes of NDP person and UCP person demonstrates how badly you’re misunderstanding the role of a voter in a democracy. I’m an Albertan, not a political label. I want all parties to move in the proper direction to do what is best for their constituents rather than be driven blindly by the ideology of the people pulling their puppet strings.

I don’t support everything that either party does and want them both to address the things I don’t agree with. The UCP have failed miserably in my view at moderating their policies while the NDP have shifted theirs significantly since 2015. I don’t believe in blindly voting for one party and I’d happily vote for the UCP if they ever gave me a reason to because that would give the NDP a reason to address their policies that I don’t agree with.

That’s how your power as a voter is supposed to work but instead we’ve got too many people like yourself giving undying loyalty to one party or another. The quickest way to ensure that an elected official doesn’t fight for what you actually want is to tell them that you’ll vote for them no matter what.