Thread on why the @Alberta_UCP actively want to break public healthcare, education, and other services. It& #39;s not just about privatization (that& #39;s part), it& #39;s about them being fundamentally undemocractic. They want an aristocracy, lead by business elites. https://twitter.com/InfoTrekCalgary/status/1248850166259437568">https://twitter.com/InfoTrekC...

2/ The #UCPcorruption are market fundamentalists... it really is a religious cult for them; no amount of evidence will convince them they are wrong, despite the massive failures & inequities of privatized health & education in the US.

4/ Whether or not they have the actual prosperity gospel angle or not (Kenney & many in the #UCPcorruption death cult do tho), they believe in an extreme form of social Darwinism - if you’re $ucce$$ful, you’re de facto worthy. If not, you’re not

3/ They view high cost & inequality as features, not bugs. In their fundamentalist view, people who can’t afford expensive, privatized health & education aren’t worthy, aren’t blessed by God. Markets & $$$ are the means by which God shows his chosen few. Everyone else can suck it

5/Ultimately, they don’t care if you or I or millions of other Albertans have ANY access to quality healthcare or edu. They assume they & their rich friends will (likely correct), & that’s all that matters. It will separate the wheat (the rich/God& #39;s chosen) from the chaff (us).

6/ Effective, publicly-delivered health and education and other services are anathema to this worldview: they get in the way of sorting the worthy from the unworthy. It interferes in the “natural” order of aristocracy. Inequality & hierarchy show “the best” – the aristokratos.

6/ From the 1920s on, the name that has come to be applied to an aristocracy led by wealthy elites is fascism, a new-old name harking back to symbolism of the Roman empire. But I was avoiding going all Godwin right at the start.