Thread by @sunnshiiny

The UCP are so dysfunctional that BC epidemiologists are attempting to inform the AB public about the expected outcome of UCP and Hinshaw policies.

It doesn’t look good.

A large 4th wave is expected in AB. Confirming the AB medical community’s extreme pushback. @jvipondmd

https://twitter.com/edmontonjournal/status/1426743229827977217

Our own AB public health team hasn’t been able to release predictions. Or maybe they decided why bother? If they plan to withdraw test, trace & isolate, why warn people? It just panics the public.

Albertans don’t need to wait for our provincial political system to collapse. It already has. The UCP & AHS administration have abandoned their jobs.

When other provinces healthcare information infrastructure is keeping AB informed, we are well beyond a proverbial dead canary.

We’re at the stage where we’re trying to establish if there is any living beings worth saving. Long after the collapse.

Hellooo, Calling Dr. Hinshaw @CMOH_Alberta.

Anyone still alive down there? Or has the gaslight permanently silenced AB healthcare information?

What shocks me is the denial people have in regards to the functionality of the current AHS medical officers of health.

It’s absurd at this point to have any faith in AHS Public Health announcements or the staff who hold positions within that department.

Which is precisely the objective UCP has had all along. Destroy trust in AHS as an institution and specifically Public Health.

If the public doesn’t trust Public Health officers, the government can impose whatever draconian & sadistic policy they want & claim CMOH supports it.

And the current CMOH, Dr. Hinshaw has learned a costly lesson in what happens when you bend your integrity to the will of corrupt politicians to appease them.

She has multiple bus tire treads on her back to remind her for the rest of her life.

Many of us knew the fourth wave was inevitable. I’m not even an epidemiologist, though I considered a career in statistics and evaluation until Harper got elected.

If you know anything about how viruses spread, you knew the 4th wave was inevitable when Stampede became priority.

Three times this provincial government has overseen relaxing of covid restrictions and mitigation measures. Each time they’ve been wrong. Opting to reopen too early, exacerbating the spread of covid.

It’s become obvious that science is NOT the determining factor in decisions.

But what is? Many would immediately jump to say the economy. But what is the UCP track record on the economy?

Abysmal.

Jobs? There are far fewer.

Wages? UCP is seeking to suppress them.

Stability? It’s difficult to claim stability with so many failed risky UCP investments.

It’s as foolish to trust UCP is interested in improving the AB economy as it is to think UCP is protecting public health.

So what are they doing?

Easy to answer, but difficult to gain buy in.

They’re dismantling democracy.

It’s obvious if you understand power dynamics.

UCP represents special interest groups in AB. They do NOT represent the entire population.

Most overlook this reality.

UCP represents primarily Dominionist Christian Nationalists, white supremacists, Q’Anon converts, hardline right libertarians & corporations.

That’s it.

These are the special interest groups for whom the UCP governs.

Which is completely contrary to the Westminster Parliamentary system Canada and each province has used since confederation or joining confederation.

In Westminster Parliamentary rules, Premiers and MLAs represent their riding and every person that lives within that riding. Not just the ones who voted for them or threw donations in their direction.

But that has ceased to be the norm or convention since UCP was formed.

Actually it predates the UCP. The Wildrose provincial party adopted this stance. As did the federal CPC, NDP and GPC.

These beliefs are libertarian, “public choice theory,” cynical beliefs where all politicians only work for their supporters.

The belief that all individuals within society are corrupt is the foundation of public choice theory. It’s based on the ideal of individualism, which is the foundational belief of libertarianism. Only the individual matters.

Revealing where Proportional Representation would take Canadian politics if Canadians ever opted to change electoral systems; further away from representative democracy and closer to direct democracy (also known as mob rule).

The form of “democracy” UCP (and federal opposition parties) has adopted is called “mobocracy.”

Ochlocracy.

Rule by the most vocal and forceful.

It’s not democracy. Rather, ochlocracy is the libertarian interpretation of what democracy means.

The basic tenets of libertarian ideology (left or right) are based on individualism as an ideal. There is no acknowledgement of interdependence of living in large social settings called civilization or nations.

Life, liberty & property; the basic requirements of individualism.

Spontaneous order refers to the will of the mob. The mob governs all. Same with the rule of law. The mob has the freedom to spontaneously create rules and laws to establish order.

Limiting legitimate power & authority increases the mob’s power.

Removing regulations permits dominance of those with the most knowledge, wealth & connections.

Libertarians believe in two classes. Those who own property & means of production, and those who feed off it. Rich and poor.

There’s some attempt to rationalize the greed of the wealthy. Taxes and redistribution of wealth (property) is referred to as theft.

Libertarians give lip service to peace. They prefer war and bullying. But they talk a good game.

Cato Institute rationalizes radicalism and extremism as fully and consistently applied principles. Which allows for viewing any government regulation or tax as a reduction in “freedom” of the mob’s major players.

And of course the obligatory threat that unless libertarianism is adopted and cultivated, the whole ideal of democracy and freedom will disappear from the face of the earth. Justifying their extreme positions.

It’s tiresome.

But it explains UCP’s policies and behaviour.

UCP is advancing the Dominionist Christian Nationalist agenda. Which is paleolibertarian (libertarian + evangelical Christian).

Maintaining covid as a pandemic aids the installation of libertarian policies and aids the dismantling of AB democratic institutions and processes.

If you look out the window and don’t see any perceptible change, that’s because policy is written on paper.

But the fact we are well on our way to experiencing the carnage the fourth covid wave will cause in Alberta, should be a major clue there’s a problem.

Supposedly, CMOH was to have removed test, trace and isolate.

Do you need to see the gun pointed at your head before you consider labelling what your prov govt is doing as fascistic by approving policies that may kill thousands of citizens, & infect thousands of kids under 12?

Because that’s where we are.

Extreme libertarian beliefs are a precursor to neo fascist ideology.

(Libertarian ≠ modern liberalist)

(Extreme libertarian = soft fascism)

britannica.com/topic/neoliber…

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