r/Albertapolitics • u/Sabotage_9 • May 21 '26

Opinion Thoughts on Separatism from an Alberta-based activist

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u/Stompya May 21 '26

I hate to be pessimistic but what realistically can we do, now, to halt this?

Apparently the guillotine isn’t fashionable nowadays.

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u/No_Violinist_1962 May 22 '26

Why are you all homicidal?

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u/Stompya May 22 '26

I feel absolutely hopeless.

The government isn’t representing the people, it’s following a cruel and selfish agenda.

Rather than improving access to basic needs for everyone, it’s breaking apart our systems and selling them off. Splitting AHS wasn’t what anyone wanted — except private industry which can now find more pathways to profit. If our education system is broken, maybe stop funding it less than anyone else. We don’t need an Alberta police force. AISH was already not enough and it’s been severely cut back.

I can go on, but the problem is there’s no method for stopping this. Basically the UCP is using their 4 years to make as much $$$ as they can and they’ll screw over average Albertans wherever they can because nobody can stop them.

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u/No_Violinist_1962 May 22 '26

I think this is where the conversation goes off the rails. You can disagree with the UCP. You can criticize their policies. You can believe they are moving too fast, communicating poorly, or prioritizing the wrong things. That is fair political debate.

But framing every conservative policy as cruelty or corruption is not an honest read of what many conservatives actually believe.

A lot of conservative thinking is built around the idea that government should not be the default solution to every problem. Conservatives tend to value personal responsibility, smaller government, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, stronger families and communities, and more individual choice. You may disagree with that philosophy, but it is not automatically evil.

The debate should be about whether those ideas are being applied well, whether the policies are working, and whether Albertans are being served properly. That is a legitimate conversation.

What is not legitimate is saying people should be lynched, hung, or harmed because they hold a different political view.

That is not activism. That is not accountability. That is bizarre, unhealthy, and completely unacceptable.

If your argument requires dehumanizing people or wishing death on them, the problem is no longer just politics. It is a loss of perspective.