Parents who voted in Conservatives upset that they have to pay school fees after Conservatives cut school funding program that the New Democrats put in place
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/red-deer/red-deer-parents-unhappy-about-new-public-school-supplies-fee-1.6533426Open linkView original on lemmy.world945
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FYI for non-Canadians - Alberta is often referred to as the Texas of Canada.
Also, 'Democrats' in this case is referring to the Alberta branch of the New Democratic Party.
Which by national standards is the most conservative NDP in the country.
Texas and Florida, considering the outright maniacs they elect.
Texas is more appropriate because of their size and oil and cattle industry
Rafael Cruz covers the maniac aspect
Alberta's latest Premier is more in the vein of an all-out far right crazy like MTG (who I know is from GA but feels like she came out of Florida) for whom things like facts and rationality are entirely alien concepts rather than a slimy weasel who repels everyone in a 20 ft. radius around them and intentionally and purposefully causes damage.
And came from Alberta. Coincidence? I think not.
this person spittin facts.. alberta is the 53rd state
Puerto Rico?
Just like Guam, it's just a military base without representation (not a state)
well neither is albeerta
There's only 2 things that come from Albeerta, that's Ted Cruise and queers and you don't much look like a Ted Cruise to me so I think that kinda narrows it down...
::: spoiler Title Don't be mad I'm just miss quoting a movie :::
Say no more.
And Canada's Utah. Former Mormon here and I met many Albertans in the church.
Lmao my town is in an uproar because there is no bussing for the high school, but my town literally voted to disincorporate (and won!) rather than pay a double-digit yearly increase on their taxes... to pay for bussing.
More and more it seems like people just don't want to help pay for services that are extremely helpful. Yet when those services are removed, they get all uppity about it. It's just like brexit. Stupidity on a massive scale.
Because it's extremely easy to convince people to make conservative decisions, but they have to actually be paying some level of conscious attention to get behind progressive ideas.
people really hate being warned about the consequences of their actions.
"you can do whatever you want, and we'll tell you it’ll be ok" will never not win votes.
Sometimes the cost of not funding the thing is higher than the costs of funding it
Not just sometimes. That's the norm. It's why we decided to fund stuff with public money in the first place: it's cheaper than not doing it.
It's the result of deliberate dumbing down of the voters. Can't have the plebs actually voting for their interests.
They don't want to pay for programs they don't benefit from and even those they only want to hamper enough that they get theirs but no one else does.
As someone who lives in red deer, yup, sounds about right.
My fellow Red Deerians are political illiterates. My one friend works in admin for schools here. Or at least, she used to, but she lost her job after the party she furiously badgered everyone to vote for got in and cut the funding at her school, targeting administrators. Which they ran on.
It was the most Red Deer thing I ever saw.
This sounds like almost all red counties across America. Politically illiterate and full of bandwagon republicans who don’t understand they’re voting to hurt themselves and their livelihoods.
Alberta to a "T".
That will never not be funny
OP needs to change the title. We don't have a "Democratic Party" in Canada, or even in Alberta.
Apologies my ignorance, I am not from Canada. What do you guys have?
New Democrats. They still have the wrappers on them.
Thank you.
NDP and Liberal parties, which are politically very similar to each other. Closest analogue to them is the US Democrat party but the Democrats in the US are more neolib than either Canadian leftist party - although Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they'll get there lol.
We let Murika test the shit for 5 years then follow suit even though you can clearly see it don't work
We do the same. Sorry from Japan.
Please don't burst my illusion that when Ummurika goes full Handmaid's Tale, I can flee to Canada (I won't bring guns or American politics with me).
What makes you think we want you here if you're not willing now.
Um, what? I am willing now, you salty dog. I’m not ready now. Big difference. :) ex wife and a kid does not equal portability at the moment. What got in your craw, friend?
"But I never thought the leopards would eat my face!!"
Fuck Round & Find Out, conservoclowns.
It doesn't matter if they find out since they never learn anything.
Well yeah, I mean, they had probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money. Now they have to waste it on their kids.
You know this is a story from Canada, right?
Alberta is the arm pit USA wannabe in Canada so it tracks
What would the Canadian version be (no points if maple syrup or Tim Horton's is mentioned)? EDIT: the Canadian version of "they probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money"?
The tim & horton 3006?
I… I don’t get it. Is this like the hydraulic press channel where you add “5000000” to the end of the name of every device you create to make it more awesome?
Tim & Horton 30 aught 6
A quad or a ski doo would be the irresponsible purchase in Alberta. Lifted trucks are standard there.
blah blah leapords blah blah faces.
Sounds very Albertan.
They also need to cut tax.
If you're paying school fees then you should make up for it by paying less in taxes.
Well i call it a win for childless
Oh nvm then
childless people famously benefit from the population having worse education...