The UCP want you to be discouraged. They want you to feel you have no power. They want you to believe they can do whatever they want with absolutely no consequences.
Mostly - they want you to shut up. To feel there is no point in calling them out because you can’t win #ableg 2/
Mostly - they want you to shut up. To feel there is no point in calling them out because you can’t win #ableg 2/
Opposition in the #AbLeg is a weird job in - you can’t win votes, or move policy - all you can hope for is to raise enough public concern to alter the government’s direction.
And with the UCP - and thier amazing arrogance - you can rarely do that. 3/
And with the UCP - and thier amazing arrogance - you can rarely do that. 3/
People are often frustrated by the UCP’s behaviour- thier disregard for democracy, decency, discourse, and the majority of Albertans.
Those people are often frustrated with me as well - because I can’t give them something “to fix it right now.” #AbLeg 4/
Those people are often frustrated with me as well - because I can’t give them something “to fix it right now.” #AbLeg 4/
No - I can’t turn back the UCP’s bad policies right now. I can’t stop them from adding 60,000 new kids to schools without a single new teacher, I can’t stop them from driving doctors out of the province in a pandemic.
But that doesn’t make me powerless. #AbLeg 5/
But that doesn’t make me powerless. #AbLeg 5/
Working to build a better future IS doing something.
In these days of instant gratification it can be hard to wait for change. It breaks my heart to see real people hurt in the mean time.
But the UCP want us to feel that waiting as powerlessness. #AbLeg 6/
In these days of instant gratification it can be hard to wait for change. It breaks my heart to see real people hurt in the mean time.
But the UCP want us to feel that waiting as powerlessness. #AbLeg 6/
Because if the UCP can make us feel powerless and pointless for raising our voices they think they can make us stop.
And if we let them - we let them take our future.
We can’t have now - that’s hard, but don’t let them use that to take the future from us. #ableg 6/
And if we let them - we let them take our future.
We can’t have now - that’s hard, but don’t let them use that to take the future from us. #ableg 6/
Raising our voices IS a point.
Building a better 2023 IS a point.
The UCP want you feeling powerless, they want you silent, the want you to believe that if you can’t have the now, there is no point fighting for the future.
The UCP is wrong. #ableg 7/
Building a better 2023 IS a point.
The UCP want you feeling powerless, they want you silent, the want you to believe that if you can’t have the now, there is no point fighting for the future.
The UCP is wrong. #ableg 7/
So when you feel powerless, when you feel the silence rise up in you - remember Tommy Douglas:
Courage my friends ‘tis not too late to build a better world.
#AbLeg 8/8
Courage my friends ‘tis not too late to build a better world.
#AbLeg 8/8
