What THE FUCK do they actually admire about Texas?
The ban on abortions?
The mass-shootings in schools, restaurants, supermarkets?
The fact it’s much harder for employees to join a labor union ?
Prescription drug prices that are among the highest in the world?
The mandatory bible 10 commandments in public schools?
This crap is making me angry. Sorry I needed to rent.
White Christian Nationalism
The belief that they (white Christian Caucasians) are a privileged ethnic group that should have power and control over everyone and that they should automatically have all the benefits of society because it’s their god given right.
They don’t care about other ethnic or cultural groups because everyone else is a lesser version of them which means it allows them and gives them the authority to have power over everyone else.
It’s the same route, history and belief system of German national socialists… or nazism.
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.