Heliocentrism was the one that replaced geocentrism, but geocentrism was the one championed by the Church at the time.

That said Darwinism should probably be creationism. I screwed up.

Christian nationalism always turns into a purity contest. I feel like this would be true with any religious based political movement, but my knowledge of these structures in other parts of world is limited.

It always seems to start with purging outsiders, but once the outsiders are not soliciting the right reactions anymore they need to turn inward, they need start eating their own. They need an enemy to point to, they need to convince their followers that they are victims, and that they need to take extraordinary actions in order to take revenge on this perceived enemy.

That collective “enemy” is one of the core principles that unites these scattered political groups, and keeps them working together. Because MAGA isn’t just one group, it’s a collective of right wing groups united under the banner of defeating the “enemy of the nation” which they’ve been convinced is this imaginary idea of the left. A group apparently so powerful its influence touches every scientific institution, regulatory body, school and university in the US, but also completely helpless to pass any government policy that might benefit the working class.

Their labeling trans identity an ideology, will go down into the history books along with Geocentrism and Darwinism. As just another example of scientific method coming under attack for going against church doctrine.

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I grew up in rural Alberta, and this is absolutely it.

I also think though it’s important to point out that many conservatives in Alberta are not Christian nationalists, even though they support Christian nationalism due to outsourcing their decision making. There are lots of those in Alberta that have bought into this “conservative identity” as portrayed by the oil industry, and when presented with Christian nationalism from the onset, it helped fuel the vote split that brought the ANDP into power.

The UCP was corrupt from the onset, but when the TBA bought out the UCP and made Smith the leader, there was concentrated effort from the conservative media in Alberta to paint her as a moderate. A pretence that was quickly dropped after being elected, but I think it adds some nuance to a point I agree with.

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Not exactly, the CPC was all in with trying to undermine NATO with Trump, I hate what the LPC is doing right now, but as one small example if the CPC was in power right now, PP would be backing Trump’s attempts to make Ukraine capitulate to Putin.

That said, the LPC can pretty much drop the L at this point. I think they’re taking advantage of the fact CPC policy is just vague assertions and thinly veiled revenge plots on democratic institutions. They know full well anyone voting for policy isn’t going to end up voting for the CPC, which they see as their only threat right now.

Doug Ford is still part of the PC wing, since the Reform wing took total control of the party after the pandemic the PC wing has had very little influence on within the CPC organization. Which is part of the reason for the infighting during the last election.

PP’s only goal is power, the CPC has no landmark policy, their campaign platform was just slogans and vague assertions, the leader lost his seat and had to run for the safest seat in the country. Under normal circumstances this would cause a push from within the party platform to more align with what Canadians want, but that doesn’t happen in today’s CPC.

This skit perfectly encapsulates the mentality of the CPC base. This partisan loyalty is doing so much damage to our political discourse, where a good portion of the country is voting purely on tribal identity, where the party is not held to the same standard of decorum or corruption.

It’s no wonder the LPC is shifting to the right, they know anyone paying attention to policy could not vote for the CPC right now, so they’ve been trying to peel CPC supporters away from the party by adopting some of the same aspects of that political identity, and passing policy that would’ve been right at home under the Harper government.

In this situation there is one thing that being left behind, and thats policy for average Canadians. As long as we’re voting to keep a cult from taking power and abusing the notwithstanding clause to punish those in society they deem undesirable, we are not voting for good policy that’s going to actually make a positive impact on the average Canadian, and thats depressing as hell.

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Conservatives like to point to successful integrations of private and public healthcare systems in other nations, nations where access for private options are made available through public programs and insurance. However in Canada, they want more of an American type system, where access is based solely on one’s ability to pay.

It’s a bait and switch being funded by Canadians entrepreneurs who see how profitable the American health insurance industry is, and want to create that same kind of market here.

Life expectancy, socio-economic mobility, rates of poverty or hunger they have to ignore just about every other metric that one could use to measure peoples quality of life to come to this conclusion.

It solves the issue of people who own companies in the field of healthcare being connected to members of the UCP, so when they privatize these services, it’s those same members who benefit. This is the kind of policy that really pairs well with legalizing gifts to MLA’s from private corporations. link

These folks want to make more money, and they have the influence they need to make that money. In 2025, I can’t help but wonder why any company would ever invest in trying to build a good sustainable business when lobbying a corrupt government is a sure thing. Why would anyone with the capital ever risk losing that capital when they don’t have to?

Nothing new here, Alberta is currently under a kleptocracy. So they’ll be repeating this same process with private surgeries. The UCP learned one lesson, their base will allow it, so they might as well do it again.

It was only a complete disaster for the taxpayers, for the UCP and their connected cronies, they all got lots of money. That’s who this was for, so it won’t be any surprise when they keep repeating this mistake while ignoring every available statistic that measures the success of these kind of policies.

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Always felt it very disturbing that the Alberta Bill of Rights makes more sense under American law than Canadian law. I know it’s more an instance of Alberta conservatives unable to distinguish the two countries legal/political systems due to their reliance on American propaganda to support their positions, but the optics are bad.

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