Albertan Corb Lund on why he’s opposed to Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Benga/Northback Grassy Mountain coal mine: “….because I drink the water.” Also interviewed and opposed to the mine: Adam North Peigan.
Thanks to Jan for telling me about these great interviews.
I vehemently disagree with Mr. Lund’s rationalizing away conservative Albertans blindly voting – decade after decade – for con gov’ts that keep abusing us while giving away billions of our dollars to mostly foreign rich people. That’s not being a good loyal conservative, that’s being stupid and lazy and predictable and in my view, terribly boring.
Intelligently voting out bad gov’ts shows corrupt politicians (and corporations) we will not bow obediently down, ass up like an alter boy to his rapist priests, to silently let them keep raping our health, water and province, serving foreign rich polluting fuckers.
In no way does voting out bad gov’ts turn conservatives into something else, like a zebra, or a liberal or a slop bucket. It’s courageous critical thinking citizens wisely saying no to being poisoned by bitumen and or sour oil and gas via gov’ts selling us out to an orange rapist convicted felon, or selenium and more via a billionaire raping foreign coal baron.
The UCP Danielle Smith gov’t is identical to the UCP Kenney gov’t and the con gov’t before it, and the Harper gov’t, and the con gov’t before it, and the con gov’t before it, and the Poilievre KKKlan, etc. etc. etc.
Surely conservatives can find some imagination, especially on their beautiful ranches, and start owning their bad voting practices instead of blaming the Trudeaus for Alberta’s transgressions against us and our lands.