Thread by @sunnshiiny

Boy am I getting tired of witnessing the NDP get trampled in QP daily.

Why is it the left never knows how to control the conversation and doesn’t even recognize when the right are controlling the narrative by playing victim?

Shandro yesterday, Nixon today.

Nixon is playing victim by just repeating “we will not make this political” over and over. Except they have made it political. By insisting lives AND livelihoods be protected.

When your house is burning down, you don’t run and get the garden hose, you save the baby & grandma.

That’s the ethical and moral choice. You can rebuild your house. You can not replace a child or grandma. Lives are the priority, not property.

If this were a natural disaster like a flood. You don’t abandon people grasping onto trees to save the local restaurant.

But UCP policy is doing just that. Restaurants, bars, fitness centres are all given priority over LTC, children and essential workers.

And then they have the audacity to play victim when that policy is questioned.

Worse, I read a CBC article today that gives moral validation to the preservation of livelihoods over Albertans lives.

How does one validate the belief that a restaurant owner’s income is a priority over people’s health and lives?

There are not 2 sides to this story.

There is only one side. Life is a priority over livelihood every damn time. There is no debate or question. People’s right to life is always superior to any livelihood or an economy.

From a new born to great grandma and everyone in between, life is precious. More precious than whatever business that can be rebuilt. Or, say the business is lost forever. Oh well, another can be created to replace it.

The alternative is a stratification of most to least important human beings. Go ahead, name the people who are expendable. The aged? They’re old and if they’ve lived until the average life span, we owe them nothing. They’ve received the maximum support from society?

What about the chronically ill. Most of whom live happily with family and friends. Their lives are less valued and expendable when push comes to shove?

What kind of ghoul legitimizes this belief? It’s classist and hubristic to offer it for consideration.

The belief that livelihoods are on par with actual human life has more in common with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust than a valid belief system to be considered legitimate.

Nazi’s created policies to exterminate Jews. Nazis felt Jews were less worthy than the Aryan race.

But Nazis also included the Roma, Polish Catholics, LGBTQ, the disabled and the mentally unwell.

Do people not see the parallel?

THERE IS NO MORAL EQUIVALENCY BETWEEN LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS.

NONE! Absolutely none! Human life is priority over property or livelihoods. EFT!

By focussing on preservation of the economy and business interests, UCP is clearly making COVID strategy political.

By ignoring the rejection of the majority of the public demanding lockdown, they’re making their decisions political.

By refusing to allow the Canada COVid tracing app to be used by Albertans, they’re policticizing COVID.

By pandering to big business, and industry lobbyists, UCP is politicizing COVid strategy.

By refusing to invest in school safety and stuffing children in classrooms like sardines and making budget cuts when feds have provided additional funding, they’re making COVID political.

By attacking physicians during a deadly pandemic, it’s political.

By allowing “liberty” and “personal responsibility” to trump the right to life, they’ve made COVID political.

By hiding for 10 days from the public who are demanding action to protect lives, it is political.

What we haven’t done is name the politics. Paleolibertarianism.

Also known colloquially as fascism-lite, or fascistic.

When you pick the economy (survival of the state or the corporations that support it) over the lives of the people who make up the working population, that’s fascism.

That’s the basis of the definition of fascism. When the state becomes more important than the people, you’re supporting fascism.

It’s not deontological libertarianism. Which includes the caveat of as long as one does no harm.

newrepublic.com/article/154042…

UCP policy includes the acceptance of death and widespread illness to preserve the livelihoods of the preferred stratas of society. Classism. All lives are equal, but some are more equal than others.

JFC! UCP is offering fascist political policy that offers death and illness as a feature, not a bug, and NDP are debating in QP like it’s a valid belief system.

Name it and shame it.

Describe the behaviour and name it for what it is. Fascism.

Every time a UCP MLA skirts the issue and points back at NDP as the aggressors and unreasonable dissenters questioning a valid belief system, NDP need to name it and shame it. Every fricking time.

Don’t even have to call it fascism.

“Your policy is killing and infecting Albertans with a deadly pandemic disease and your party has abandoned its primary function, which is to protect all citizens of this province. Why have you abandoned the people of this province?”

“Why are UCP implementing policies that prioritize the wealthiest’s livelihoods at the expense of all other Albertans health and right to life?”

“Why are UCP preventing ALL citizens from protecting themselves and their families by blocking a free app, but continue to protect businesses at the expense of the public’s health?”

It’s that easy. The public knows what UCP has and has not done. Focus on their choices. Name the behaviour. Shame the callousness and inhumanity exhibited by the policies. Short quick questions. Point out avoidance. Make them try to justify their belief system.

Force UCP to admit they believe some loss of life is acceptable in the lower stratas of society. Let them admit corporate demands are their priority.

Because it is. Then label it & we can amplify it.

Because Walmart is NOT more important than any family members of Albertans.