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.
They are similar in that they subsist on oil, cattle and farmland.
Brandloyal conservatism, big cities that are surprisingly cosmopolitan and liberal given the overall vibe, cowboy shit like someone else mentioned.
I think that people who openly admire texas, do so over the racism and misogyny.
Oil culture, and cowboy cosplay.
Naw, that’s real cowboys, not cosplay.
The blatant racism?
It’s not just Albertans…it’s many, if not most, conservatives. My neighbour in Ontario idolizes Texas and even flies it’s flag. My sense is it’s just team sports…ideology…partisanship. These folks aren’t honest with themselves, and we can’t expect them to be honest with us.
This behaviour from conservatives obviously begs the question: Why don’t you just move to effing Texas, then? The short answer, as I see it, is because they love to troll and perform because they’ve been radicalized by their particular information bubble. They won’t admit that what they actually want is the best of both worlds: all the benefits of living in a liberal democracy with none of the repercussions or responsibilities of bigotry or stupidity (than they will never ever admit they display).
For real though… Every single person I know that’s moved to Alberta got stupider.
I can tell you as someone born and raised here, oil money has led this place to become a mecca for every dumb asshole across Canada to forgo further education and try to get rich quick. The majority will crash and burn and the rest will retire in Kelowna.
the rest will retire in Kelowna.
Fuck, no! Not my home town! We have enough jacked-up and lifted pavement princesses with red license plates as it is!
I’ve never lived in Alberta…but I was in BC for ages so I’m familiar.
They, first and foremost, think they’re superior because there’s oil in Alberta. They don’t understand that all of the profits from oil are leeched from their province - or they do understand, but they’re happy as long as Quebecers and “Queers” don’t get a dime. When the province catches fire or there’s a downturn in oil prices…suddenly they’re all socialists. Don’t know how they function with so many conflicting realities.
Don’t know how they function with so many conflicting realities.
They got those religious blinders. You know, like what horses wear but self imposed.
Nobody in BC talks shit about green plates or black plates cuz none of them compare to red plates.
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.
Oil. And oil accessories.
Texas has power outages for days at a time. People get rocked by astronomical utility bills. Also, Texas has boil water advisories for big population centres in one of the richest states in the US.
There’s nothing to covet here. It’s an embarrassment.
I have a MAGA aunt that lived in Texas: the sort that unironically bitches about “welfare queens” and “socialism” while being entirely dependent on social security disability benefits and Medicaid.
When her health took a turn for the worse a few years ago my dad and cousin helped her move north – which is why she’s still alive considering the “healthcare” she had in Texas.
The ones who came down here really like year-round golf, in my experience. They don’t seem to mind the state sponsored racism and xenophobia because white immigrants without strong accents get a massive pass on all that shit. My old boss was technically an illegal immigrant at one point because of some visa shenanigans but no one’s showing up at his door to deport him, and he’s a department head at a state university.
It’s got that Wild West vibe where you can shoot someone for looking at you funny
Not really a thing in Alberta.
Edit: The UCP is trying to make it a thing, I guess. Maybe that’s what you mean.
