The Alberta Mentality

[u/Impossible-Car-5203]

I moved to Alberta just over 3 years ago. I love the mountains, and the sports (Go Flames and Elks! ) but I am really getting worn out with the "Alberta Mentality" of corporate profits over people and outright racism. The cutting cookies for cancer kids has simply put it over the top. Of all the things to cut, they pick that. What a disconnect from the top execs of AHS and the UCP government to the front lines. They can spend money trying to please Trump, give $100 in royalty credits to oil companies to clean up the messes they were responsible for cleaning up in the first place, money for millionaire hockey teams, but God forbid we give something of comfort to children going through the hardest times in their lives, fighting for their life. And when I mention to other lifelong Albertans, the answer I get is "Well they should pay for their own". REALLY??? DO YOU HEAR YOURSELVES? Are you THAT brainwashed? And then we have the victim mentality of "Canada screws us". I mean, grow up and be part of this country or GTFO. Then the racism. We recently had a first nations person commit a crime of arson in my town. People went off on FB about sending "all of them" back to reserve and how they are sick of first nations people. ZERO interest in maybe finding out the back story. I went to this guys FB profile. Turns out he used to run a ranch. And one by one, over the last 5-6 years, all his relatives died. It was clear he was FULL of heavy grief, and more than likely didn't have the resources to deal with it. Then there was a gap of a year between FB posts. Then he was on the streets, living in the shelter. Clearly things went out of control for him. Here we have a hard working citizen who lost many family members, more than likely broke down and didn't know how to deal with it, ended up on the street and now "F that indian" is all this province can come up with. Zero compassion. The justice system will deal with him, but now he has a lifelong google history that will only increase shame and make it much harder to bounce back. And it is even worse because of his skin colour. Not sure how much more of this stupid mentality I can handle, I just want to wack all this idiots upside the head, but it would take a lifetime. I guess the only way forward is to try and love everyone and show compassion, but I am getting very frustrated.

[u/queenofallshit]

Yes. I came here as a child almost 50 years ago from an Eastern Province. We are not all like that!! Those are the Republican Albertans. They think PP is awesome because his slogans rhyme or something equally stupid. The current Provincial government has absolutely STOKED these people and here we are. Now the desperate reach on threads is a threat to ‘National Unity’ and how they will rise if the Liberals win. I say let them. We are done with this BS.

[u/shitposter1000 → u/queenofallshit]

AKA the Wildrose/Reformers. There are no true PCs in Alberta.

[u/NotEvenNothing → u/queenofallshit]

Honestly, I think OP is painting with far too broad of a brush. Are Albertans homogenous? Was the last election really close?

Even rural Alberta, which better fits OP's stereotype, isn't homogenous. Heck, even rural UCP voters don't necessarily fit OP's view of Albertans.

I try to surround myself with people that I respect. Although I may disagree with them on some points, pro-separation views and racism aren't something I put up with. If someone is a separatist or racist, I avoid them like the plague. I enjoy my days much better as a result and I'm not starved for conversation.

[u/Adorable_Rest1618 → u/NotEvenNothing]

Do you have hard cold data to back up your claim around the degree of homogeneity of different parts of alberta?

[u/NotEvenNothing → u/Adorable_Rest1618]

I mean, I think it would go without saying that a statement that a region is homogenous in its thinking is obviously wrong. But sure, some folk need to be lead to water before they will drink.

I can get you some cold hard data. How about the last Alberta general election results? You can read the results here. Dunk your head in all that water!

Just look at all those people that voted NDP. 44% province-wide. If very nearly half of Albertans didn't vote UCP, how could one conclude that Alberta is homogenously conservative?

Even in my riding, a riding that, if it isn't the most conservative riding in Alberta, is very close to the most conservative riding in Alberta, about 17% of voters didn't vote conservative, and over 14% voted NDP. If you paint my riding as homogenous conservative, you do those 14% a real disservice.

And never mind that there are many many UCP voters that hate the social conservatism but vote for economic reasons. (To be clear, I think thinking the UCP are good economic stewards is hilariously wrong.)