Calgary's water crisis is manageable IF Albertans are willing to accept minor personal inconvenience to preserve the well being of their community.
Exactly what #abpoli has spent years conditioning them to vehemently & reflexively oppose on Covid, climate, & so on. 1/
Exactly what #abpoli has spent years conditioning them to vehemently & reflexively oppose on Covid, climate, & so on. 1/
At least some of the same people who not only refuse to do things like wear masks but also go out of their way to harass & cough on others who do will petulantly continue old habits, or even increase usage, just to show "you're not the boss of me!" when asked to conserve H2O. 2/
Any even minor effort they DO make will be blown out of proportion to fester resentment for a legion of David Parker types for years to come, an invented grievance to further yet more partisan hate. 3/
This invokes a cornerstone belief of Canada's political right: that creating or worsening crises is political great news as long as you can falsely blame the left for the problems you maliciously create.
Perpetual rage farming requires manufacturing crisis. 4/
Perpetual rage farming requires manufacturing crisis. 4/
A tireless harassment & vilification effort has already been directed at Calgary's mayor Gondek, which shock doctrine actors remain perpetually keen to escalate.
Those partisans don't want Calgarians safely weathering this crisis. They want them inconvenienced & upset. 5/
Those partisans don't want Calgarians safely weathering this crisis. They want them inconvenienced & upset. 5/
If UCP-voting narcissists refuse to do their part, they can turn a problem into a major problem. That they'll blame on the left. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
They *want* Calgary to have to *enforce* restrictions, to fundraise on "The left's tyrannical police state excesses." 6/
They *want* Calgary to have to *enforce* restrictions, to fundraise on "The left's tyrannical police state excesses." 6/
The available lessons will be those #abpoli has refused to acknowledge for generations:
1. Collective action is in the collective best interest
2. Bad actors politically profit by deliberately undermining collective action to harm collective best interests. 7/
1. Collective action is in the collective best interest
2. Bad actors politically profit by deliberately undermining collective action to harm collective best interests. 7/
Short voter attention spans & low- or dis-info political takes will misattribute blame & simply remember that hard times happened while a progressive sat in the mayor's chair (trying to appeal to the better natures that the right doesn't actually have). 8/
Have convoy or conspiracy types claimed that Calgary's water mains are actually just fine and the mayor's just inventing an excuse to take away your right to shower & wash your clothes yet?
Will water main & drought deniers plan a water park wet t-shirt contest fundraiser?
Will water main & drought deniers plan a water park wet t-shirt contest fundraiser?
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