More Albertans need to acknowledge this.
When you do, it makes sense what Kenney has done the last 20 months.
Kenney is attempting to redistribute wealth to the wealthy and impoverish everyone else. It’s not a coincidence or incompetence. It’s intentional.
When you do, it makes sense what Kenney has done the last 20 months.
Kenney is attempting to redistribute wealth to the wealthy and impoverish everyone else. It’s not a coincidence or incompetence. It’s intentional.
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This is what Putin did to Russia. It’s what Yanukovych did to Ukraine. Boris Johnson is doing to UK. Trump did to US. Bush jr did to Iraq. Orban did to Hungary.
It’s a strategy. The more economically desperate people become, the easier the population is to control.
It’s a strategy. The more economically desperate people become, the easier the population is to control.
It’s more difficult to protest if you’re focussed on where your next meal is coming from or how you’re going to pay rent.
Remember in May and June how conservatives across Canada wanted CERB to be ceased immediately? Because people weren’t motivated to work.
Remember in May and June how conservatives across Canada wanted CERB to be ceased immediately? Because people weren’t motivated to work.
People weren’t desperate enough to return to work was the prevailing agenda behind eliminating CERB. People had abundant time to pay attention to politics. Liberal party had its highest rating since 2015.
That sense of calm and trust in the future is gone.
That sense of calm and trust in the future is gone.
How was that accomplished? Forcing people back to work. Opening the economy too quickly. Requiring students to return to school with minimal COVid protections. Permitting indoor gathering to resume without mask mandates. Refusal to make or enforce COVid edicts and precautions.
Why? Because a heavily infected community is incapable of protest and incapable of focussing on anything but survival.
Which is where Alberta, SK, MB, ON and QC are right now.
Kenney sold leasing rights to a coal company for peanuts. What can we do about it? Nothing.
Which is where Alberta, SK, MB, ON and QC are right now.
Kenney sold leasing rights to a coal company for peanuts. What can we do about it? Nothing.
Kenney just passed an omnibus bill removing PTSD as a valid claim. Listen to physicians and nurses in this COVid outbreak. They’re teetering on emotional exhaustion. Many will develop PTSD. Which the province will not be liable to treat.
What can we do about it? Nothing.
What can we do about it? Nothing.
Kenney has again given himself and his cabinet unfettered ability to repeal, alter or approve new bills without the bother of the legislature process, by invoking a Public Health Emergency in Alberta. That he caused through his own inaction.
An overly stressed population is more pliable and suggestible for proto fascist leaders to manipulate. And committing corrupt acts to redistribute wealth to the wealthy is much easier when a pandemic is raging out of control.
Kenney was never here to build his reputation for PM or help oil and gas workers.
He’s always had the plan to stress the provincial economy to the point that the public becomes more focussed on survival than politics.
Learned helplessness and desperation.
He’s always had the plan to stress the provincial economy to the point that the public becomes more focussed on survival than politics.
Learned helplessness and desperation.
That’s how autocrats keep control of the population and maintain authority. Force the population to focus on survival rather than politics.
There are examples of this strategy all over the globe. Trump’s cronies openly admitted in recent exposed emails they were trying to make more people infected. Kenney’s policy choices mirrored Trump’s. Ford has admiration for Trump’s economics and leadership style.
Conservative politicians sometimes try to portray concern and compassion. But their policy choices reveal their indifference to people dying.
Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do. Past behaviour is the most reliable predictor of future behaviour.
Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do. Past behaviour is the most reliable predictor of future behaviour.
We’ve allowed premiers to make decisions that have exacerbated COVid in Canada and now sit helpless and terrified of our healthcare systems probable collapse.
It’s not incompetence.
It’s a well documented strategy.
It’s not incompetence.
It’s a well documented strategy.
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