Thread by @sunnshiiny

ENTITLEMENT.

https://twitter.com/sjcalgary/status/1344803510970273792

Seems conservatives have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

How does it feel to the average Albertan to be considered second class? Apparently UCP, CPC and other conservatives across Canada are exempt from COVID public health orders.

I wonder if that means anti maskers are first class citizens? What about church pastors and parishioners? Are they first class status too?

But teachers, physicians, police, first responders, grocery workers, and every other Albertan is considered second class.

We don’t get exemptions to avoid public health orders.

What kind of government flouts law and order?

This is not explained by the confused and poorly informed “freedom” focussed Q’Anon and the fanatical Evangelical Christian’s who evidently can’t manage to worship at home.

These are fully informed political aids and politicians. Refusing to be limited by public health orders.

It’s their job to understand the public health orders made by the CMOH. Then communicate those orders on behalf of the provincial premier.

Don’t people need special permission to take vacation flights? They do. From the Premier or their minister.

While it’s stunning that the UCP have crossed a boundary of trust, what I find stunning is the absence of rage at this revelation.

Here is a more recent list of the number of people that travelled recently.

I got this from @Norlaine

New list:
-Michael Florian
-Eliza Snider
-Matt Wolf
-Nathan Neudorf (although his spin is he has "remained home" (in Canada?)
-Tracy Allard
-Pat Rehn
-Jamie Huckabay
-Jeremy Nixon
- Tanya Fir
So, we're up to 9.

That’s 9 people who completely ignored the covid public health orders made by Kenney and which were reinforced with a federal ban on non-essential travel.

And people on are moderately annoyed at best?!?

This government is killing people with a lackadaisical casual approach to public health. Our healthcare infrastructure is about to collapse. And all people can muster is stern annoyance?

WTF ALBERTA?!? It’s time to get mad and seek justice. This is injustice.

It means many have normalized UCP corruption and are experiencing learned helplessness.

Learned helplessness is when you’re resigned to accept a government that kills with policy and also has the arrogance and hubris to absolve themselves from the orders they decree.

It means you’re telling that government it’s okay to abuse you because you have given up and are adapting to the abuse.

That’s what voter apathy is. And it’s caused by the consolidation of power like this display of utter contempt for the population of Alberta.

This is an egregious demonstration of intolerable contempt for the citizens of Alberta.

This information should be inducing rage, not moderate annoyance.

We should be picking up pitchforks and torches, not verbally castigating the worst offenders and grumbling about being ruled for the next 2 + years by people who obviously have no regard for people whom they dominate and for whom they control the levers of life and death.

This is intolerable. Citizens cannot be expected to accept the feigned apologies, with the theatrics of tears included, in the face of such utter scorn for the people of this province.

We are the problem if we allow this to go unchallenged and genuflect to the establishment of a higher class of citizen that neither is obliged to follow the rules they order nor protect the citizens they’ve deemed second class, of whom they been entrusted to govern.

If you understand anything about power dynamics, this is called consolidation of power. Completely absolved of following the rules, and given a pass for endangering the lives of the citizens they are supposed to be protecting.

If we allow this to be okay, we are giving tacit approval for Kenney to establish totalitarian autocracy.

This is the type of power as citizens that our Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives us the ability to loudly and peacefully object and force to resign.

If we don’t do that now, we may as well shut down any further discussion and study ways of coping with a dictator and becoming second or even third class citizens.

This is a 3 alarm warning ⚠️ 🚨🚨🚨

It’s time to get vocal.

We cannot do this by protesting in the streets. But we can protest by making phone calls, writing letters and demanding UCP resign.

Clearly Kenney considers himself above reproach. It’s up to us to remind him that’s BS. He and his party must resign.

We would be no worse off with vacant seats in the legislature. Absent because they are vacationing or absent because we fired them is no different.

There will be no fascist totalitarian consolidation of power in Alberta.

A reckoning is long over due.

So put your apathy to pasture.

Be your own hero.

Demand this intolerable ideological despot and his regime resign. Your life, the lives of your loved ones and our democracy depends on it.

@threadreaderapp please compile