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.
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.
Sometimes the cost of not funding the thing is higher than the costs of funding it
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.
But I was voting for policies that would hurt other people, not me!!!
OP needs to change the title. We don’t have a “Democratic Party” in Canada, or even in Alberta.
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