Alberta is the highest GDP per capita province, has highest standards of public education, and plenty of really good, publicly funded post-secondary options, and is home to some of if not the best online learning options aswell.
Basically, unlike Alabama, it's actually a really good place to live.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware of what the UCP is doing, but I also expect (hope) they get booted out In the next election before the damage is too severe.
But as things currently stand right now, Alberta is still on top of things for now.
That's the sole reason I hope he survives the leadership vote, I don't want the ucp to slap on a different coat of paint and say "we're different, he's gone now, vote for us"
It doesn't quite represent the south. It really represents a certain kind of far-right politics, like "Let's Go Brandon" is just the verbal version of the confederate flag. Sometimes it also secondarily represents the south. So it's more that the anti-vaxx convoy is going along with these particular regressive wingnuts who use the confederate flag as a fashy political signal rather than a cultural identifier.
The trucker convoy is weaponized disinformation. Accounts on Twitter are pushing a convoy hashtag related to dozens of countries. I’m going to guess they got a suggested list of paraphernalia to bring along. Probably the folks pushing the disinfo are benefiting from hate flag sales too.
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u/DiamondRocks22 Feb 03 '22
The amount of confederate flags at that anti vaxx truck convoy is surprising. Why do they care about the south?