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FYI for non-Canadians - Alberta is often referred to as the Texas of Canada.
Also, 'Democrats' in this case is referring to the Alberta branch of the New Democratic Party.
Which by national standards is the most conservative NDP in the country.
this person spittin facts.. alberta is the 53rd state
Say no more.
And Canada's Utah. Former Mormon here and I met many Albertans in the church.
Lmao my town is in an uproar because there is no bussing for the high school, but my town literally voted to disincorporate (and won!) rather than pay a double-digit yearly increase on their taxes... to pay for bussing.
More and more it seems like people just don't want to help pay for services that are extremely helpful. Yet when those services are removed, they get all uppity about it. It's just like brexit. Stupidity on a massive scale.
Because it's extremely easy to convince people to make conservative decisions, but they have to actually be paying some level of conscious attention to get behind progressive ideas.
people really hate being warned about the consequences of their actions.
"you can do whatever you want, and we'll make sure nothing bad happens to you" will never not win votes.
Sometimes the cost of not funding the thing is higher than the costs of funding it
Not just sometimes. That's the norm. It's why we decided to fund stuff with public money in the first place: it's cheaper than not doing it.
It's the result of deliberate dumbing down of the voters. Can't have the plebs actually voting for their interests.
They don't want to pay for programs they don't benefit from and even those they only want to hamper enough that they get theirs but no one else does.
As someone who lives in red deer, yup, sounds about right.
My fellow Red Deerians are political illiterates. My one friend works in admin for schools here. Or at least, she used to, but she lost her job after the party she furiously badgered everyone to vote for got in and cut the funding at her school, targeting administrators. Which they ran on.
It was the most Red Deer thing I ever saw.
This sounds like almost all red counties across America. Politically illiterate and full of bandwagon republicans who don’t understand they’re voting to hurt themselves and their livelihoods.
Alberta to a "T".
But I was voting for policies that would hurt other people, not me!!!
That will never not be funny
OP needs to change the title. We don't have a "Democratic Party" in Canada, or even in Alberta.
Apologies my ignorance, I am not from Canada. What do you guys have?
New Democrats. They still have the wrappers on them.
Thank you.
NDP and Liberal parties, which are politically very similar to each other. Closest analogue to them is the US Democrat party but the Democrats in the US are more neolib than either Canadian leftist party - although Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they'll get there lol.
Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they'll get there lol.
We let Murika test the shit for 5 years then follow suit even though you can clearly see it don't work
We do the same. Sorry from Japan.
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"But I never thought the leopards would eat my face!!"
Fuck Round & Find Out, conservoclowns.
It doesn't matter if they find out since they never learn anything.
Well yeah, I mean, they had probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money. Now they have to waste it on their kids.
You know this is a story from Canada, right?
Alberta is the arm pit USA wannabe in Canada so it tracks
What would the Canadian version be (no points if maple syrup or Tim Horton's is mentioned)? EDIT: the Canadian version of "they probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money"?
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blah blah leapords blah blah faces.
Sounds very Albertan.
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