I know that my Twitter TL is very much an echo chamber, but I can’t understand how more people aren’t vehemently outraged by every goddamned thing the UCP is doing to turn Alberta into a failed state.

I don’t even have the words anymore so I’m just going to keep contacting MLAs

And this goes beyond being an NDP supporter or whatever - the UCP is bad for Alberta and bad for Albertans.

It might not be the union-busting bill from today, or the health omnibus bill from yesterday, or changing education funding formulas, but something is going to affect you

And when it does, I hope you have the presence of mind to get in touch with your elected official, the minister responsible for the bill, and the premier.

Don’t let up. They can’t ignore us forever.

And if THAT doesn’t work, for the love of god vote for someone else in 2023, if there is even an election then.

Even if you don’t like the alternative, I promise you that a second term of this mandate will absolutely gut everything we used to pride ourselves on.

#ableg

I don’t blame people for wanting to leave the province but I notice it’s not old, conservative voters who want out.

By the time the next election rolls around, I don’t know if anything will change because of the impending exodus. This is what they want.

They WANT people to not know what’s going on. They WANT people to ignore all the missteps and misspent money.

The WANT people to blame the previous government, despite only being in power for 4 years and having to undo 44 years of bullshit.

They WANT you to ignore the conflicts of interest and cronyism and patronage appointments and relaxing of environmental regulations and a new focus on coal energy and tax breaks for corporations and lack of investment in anything but energy.

They WANT you to think that public sector employees don’t contribute to any economic growth and that your kids don’t need individual attention from a teacher.

They want all these things so that they can just keep chipping away at public services and infrastructure.

They want you to be ignorant so that in 2.5 years when they’re ramping up their re-election campaign they can put a little money back into the things they’ve cut and we’ll all think they’re heroes.

Remember Ralph Bucks?

None of the things this government* does are in the best interests of anyone other than their closest friends and business partners.

You aren’t in that inner circle, and you never will be.

All we can hope for is that we kick them out of the circle altogether.

#ableg

Anyway, here’s the website with all the MLA contact information. (I’d apologize for the cumbersome interface but I’m sure this is all part of a strategy to make it impossible to use)

Emails are good. Phone calls too. Handwritten letters are better.

https://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_home

And someone please remind the people who voted for these dicks that they campaigned on approximately none of this stuff and are just making it up as they go.

If you didn’t think they’d be this bad, you weren’t paying attention.

Oh! And one more thing!

They’ve forgotten that they work for us. That’s literally the job. We elect people to represent our interests and hope they do.

The only consolation is that we get to fire them when they don’t.

So let’s figure our shit out and fire them.

also, wear a mask.