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.
This is why liberals and lefties should stop pointing fingers. The left is not very good at it. But the right excels at double standards and hypocrisy.
Yesterday, PMJT revealed that CPC is led by a man courting white supremacists.
But today, people are repeating the word “whacko” in relation to the PM and BC drug policy and debating whose leader was more ethical.
No one is discussing white supremacy being given legitimacy by PP this past weekend.
Who gives a crap about decorum & process in QP?
Apparently it’s more important to focus on the process and decorum than the fact the attack on the Speaker was a coordinated event by CPC & perfectly demonstrates that CPC IS courting white supremacists and attacking the first Canadian black Speaker for doing his job.
Weak leadership of Nicholas II & an uninterrupted feudal system were inadequate to provide for the whims of the elite and the sustenance of the poor. He became untenable in an time when rigid social status was being challenged by liberalism.
Marxism is a 19th century Enlightenment influenced theory of social organization and economics that is an ideal, not reality. For all the effort Marx made to emphasize his ideas be brought to fruition through revolution, the public often confuses Marxism with anarchism.
Our social and political systems legitimize devaluation of the poor, PWD, seniors and children because they do not produce profits, rather they consume resources.
Society would need to reconsider the premise of its systemic foundations to alter this reality.
The premise that most human beings are just capital that can either produce or consume goods and services became reality at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. A product of feudalist social strata.
Why people fail to recognize these beliefs is unknown, they surround us.
It’s the same strategy that was used for Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplements for citizens over age 65.
Benefits for seniors is actually the province’s jurisdiction as listed in the BNA 1867.
After industrialization in Canada and people began moving to cities and towns, seniors were dying in abject poverty. So the feds stepped in. But not without some constitutional manoeuvring first.
People forget, retirement is a 20th century concept.
Cascading series of failures means individuals are unable to address all the problems. Frankly, I’d be surprised if people were aware of all the failures occurring simultaneously.
This is a strategy.
Multiple serious problems means the electorate is divided in attention.
Some will focus on strip mining at headwaters for most of Alberta’s fresh water supply.
Some will focus on drought and access to water.
Some will focus on NICU imminent collapse.
What few will do because these catastrophic failures are emotionally overwhelming on their own, is to recognize there is one source for all of these problems.
No, it’s not Danielle Smith. She’s just a figurehead.
I always remember Art Finkelstein was a man of Jewish descent who manipulated voter perception ruthlessly to elect some very antisemitic people. Because it made him wealthy and in high demand by the far right.