Kenney knows his policies will create hardship, suffering and even deaths. He’s not incompetent or stupid. He’s an extremist ideologue.
He does not believe or value public funds being spent on the public.
@BarbLarochelle@patriciaannmcd2 It has nothing to do with stubbornness. Nothing to do with delusion. He knows exactly what he is doing and why.
He’s attempting to drain the treasury while in office. Stealing. Embezzling. Transferring wealth he believes belongs to those who own the means of production.
@BarbLarochelle@patriciaannmcd2 His belief system includes the understanding that taxes are theft from the government and involuntary force applied to support policies and programs that benefit the public.
Which is why he is also proposing full privatization of all social services.
@BarbLarochelle@patriciaannmcd2 In his mind, every member of the public has been robbing the true owners of capital of their profits. Thus, the attack on doctors, nurses, teachers and all public servants. He believes he is merely returning I’ll gotten goods to the rightful owners. The wealthy and corporations.
@BarbLarochelle@patriciaannmcd2 When you understand his values and belief system, his behaviour, decisions and policies make sense. He’s a fascist.
Fascism is when corporations and the state work for mutual benefit. At the expense of the public and labour force.
@BarbLarochelle@patriciaannmcd2 Kenney and UCP do not have the interests of the public anywhere in their list of priorities. They intend to collapse the system and rob Alberta blind. And leave Albertans destitute and weakened.
@BarbLarochelle@patriciaannmcd2 It’s called Paleolibertarianism and the economic tools they are employing are called anarcho-capitalism.
Anarchy being a key concept.
If there is no government, no one can stop them from taking what they want.
Alberta has a corrupt… no, a deeply corrupt govt, which is actively working to harm the most vulnerable and redistribute resources and wealth to those who already have wealth and corporations that pay-to-play.
But because this is so counterintuitive and grossly unorthodox to established democracies, few even have the required mental framing to recognize it.
This is the mindset of most Albertans. Stunned shock, disbelief & confusion.
The wave looks familiar, but the danger isn’t recognized until it’s too late. Our brains are not hardwired to recognize danger unless we are familiar with the anomalies to recognize.
Human beings are at a disadvantage to other herding species of social mammals.
A former paper boy and a former mailroom clerk are trying to embarrass the PM because they’ve never actually worked a real job with real problems.
This is why life experience and NOT just education, should be a requirement for public service.
If you’ve only spread rumours and disinformation to harm political opponents & raise funds to pay for you to spread rumours & disinformation, you don’t get it. But if you’ve ever had real life experience, you know the PM job is to address the emergency, not discuss the emergency.
Maybe PMMC is actually working with other global leaders? Trying to prevent WW3?
Working with others is one of PMMC’s strong skills.
It’s not Scheer’s nor PP’s, so maybe they don’t know. Scheer and PP have no idea what work is, having never had a real job in the real world.
That’s code for: Christian Nationalists refuse to take no for an answer when it comes to their demands to ignore science, disobey Canadian laws & reject indigenous people in meaningful participation and sharing of profits.
This is who voted for Smith. This is her support base.
These Albertans are inflamed from roughly 80 years of populist rhetoric that may have started out traditional conservative in 1935, but became more & more aligned with American libertarian indifference & individuality.
Alberta has been colonized by US Christian Nationalists.
Certainly the 7 Mountains Strategy has been at play for decades.
I know it sounds crazy & scares people to discuss religion. But this has little to do with religion. No one is asking anyone to change their beliefs except the saboteurs who want Canadians to lose faith in Canada.
Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison you need to give your head a shake.
Trump is a madman and even if Canada chose to kiss ass, kowtow and buckle under, there is no guarantee Trump would remove tariffs.
Canada’s best option is to move quickly to diversify immediately.
Yes, this will be hard. Yes some people may suffer. But those who suffer loss of pension value are the same ones who allowed this to happen in the first place.
Who permitted our economy to be dependent upon US hegemony.
That would be conservatives when they signed NAFTA.
When are people going to realize Smith is a puppet leader who was installed to break up Canada?
What more needs to happen before Canadians stop asking questions or pointing out odd behaviour and just understand that she was always a fascist pretending to be a loyal Canadian?
Show me one example of Smith behaving loyal to Canada or even to Albertans as a whole (not just special interest group Christian Nationalists).
You can’t. Because it’s never occurred.
The difficulty people are having is a function of not possessing the intellectual frame required to recognize the deep and profound corruption which is occurring.
When you expect to see normal, that’s what your intellectual frame recognizes.