The Alberta Independence movement has to stop attacking normal Conservatives #cdnpoli #abpoli
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As an Albertan that is not in favor of independence, can I give a small bit of advice to those who are in favour of it? Do not do what Jeff Rath just did here. He works with the Alberta Prosperity Project, and he is telling Federal Conservative Party supporters to stay home in the Battle River Crowfoot riding because federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev opposes separatism. What do you think he thought? He leads a federal Conservative party, and because he's running in a riding, he thought he was going to support Alberta separating from Canada? It kind of goes against his job description as a Federal Conservative leader to support provincial separatism in one of one of the provinces.
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As an Albertan that is not in favor of independence, can I give a small bit of advice
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to those who are in favor of it? Do not do what Jeff Rath just did here. He works with the Alberta
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Prosperity Project, and he is telling Federal Conservative Party supporters to stay home in
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the Battle River Crowfoot riding because Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev opposes
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separatism. What do you think he thought? He leads a Federal Conservative Party, and I guess because
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he's running in Battle River Crowfoot, you thought he was then going to support Alberta separating
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from Canada? It kind of goes against his job description as a Federal Conservative leader
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to support provincial separatism in one of the provinces. Now, I suggest to people like Jeff
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Rath, rather than sitting online and purity testing people and getting mad at politicians
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who don't support what you support when it makes no sense for them to do it in the first place,
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actually go out and doorknock in suburban areas of Calgary and Edmonton. If your independence
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referendum is going to succeed, you need to be able to win the suburbs. If you can't do that,
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you're not going to win. The independence movement is also plagued by way too much confirmation bias.
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You go to a bunch of town halls where everyone agrees with you, everyone talks about how inevitable
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separatism is, and then they just don't actually do the work. They get signatures for petitions and
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whatnot from people who already agree with them, but if you can't win suburban areas of Calgary that the
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UCP won, you are in trouble. You need 50% support in order to actually separate from Canada. And I
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guarantee you, if you go in to some of the bluest areas of Calgary, plus 20 UCP polls, you will have
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those people say they do not support separatism. So, rather than attacking Polyev and antagonizing
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mainstream conservatives, you should convince those people why they should support what you support,
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but instead we're just going to purity test. Because I guarantee you, Jeff Rath doesn't even
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believe separatism is going to happen. He gets a lot of attention from this stuff,
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and he is using it until it runs out. He is using up all the attention until the separatist