From this thread in Great Debates:
Not all the people who live on them; only those whose tub-thumping caveman politics haven’t progressed since William Aberhart and his women-should-be-pregnant-and-barefoot-and-chained-to-the-stove oxymoronic Social Credit psychopathy.
They don’t have to demonize the opposition. The opposition does the job fine on its own.
Yes it is. Its only other natural resource is its never-ending supply of white supremacists who used to be teachers but now fix flats and pump gas. If it weren’t for oil, Alberta would be where it was in 1947.
You can’t say that low taxes and no sales tax are not because of oil, at least without being transparently disingenuous. The live-and-let-live attitude is apparent only when it suits the provincial Tories — they’ll be shouting about the now 30-year-old NEP bogey man into the 25th century.
You conjure up Pol Pot, the biggest mass-murderer since Hitler, and say I’d vote for him, then accuse me of hateful speech? Well take this, you white-robed cross-burning, goose-stepping chuck-wagon-horse-killing Tory toady who wouldn’t recognize satire and one-dimensional characterizations if they bit you on the ass, even after they were pointed out to the nitwit-challenged in a post above yours: Like a typical Albertan running off at the spittle-flecked mouth, you term someone from another part of the country an “internal Canadian immigrant.” Next you’ll be screaming lebensraum at the next Klan meeting. You’re the Jed Clampett of the Great White North. Yeehaw! A see-ment pond! What hath God wrought?
You’re a bunch of narrow-minded, no-forehead, inbred, fascist hog farmers knee deep in your own pig shit, sorting turds according to size while wearing paper Stetsons and U.S.-penis-envy tin stars printed with misspelled Sherrif and pinned to pink-and-blue-with-yellow-piping cowboy shirts form-fitting your beer bellies spilling over your sweat-shop Wal-Mart jeans that have no need for their tooled belts and six-inch-wide silver buckles, and never did. You think Exxon owes your 15-child Franco-worshipping Kleinzoid spawn a living because it’s beneath their dignity to work for Alberta’s 15-cents-an-hour minimum wage paid to “internal Canadian immigrants,” because, gawddammit, there’s no sales tax. Soon enough, thanks to that oil-company Bay Street ass-kisser and his puppet-master in the pocket of U.S. managed-care conglomerates who wrote a “white paper” Tory propaganda sheet on health care, you’ll be killing babies and little old ladies like there’s no tomorrow for the sake of the cash that will roll in, thanks to private medical insurance. Blow up any more hospitals lately, you stiff-armed, swastika-saluting lampshade-mongers?
Pol Pot indeed.