Thought dictators

The world is polluted today with thought dictators and nobody likes them.

It doesn’t matter what a person’s beliefs are, they don’t like to be told what they must think, what they must say and, perhaps more important, what they must not say.

Alberta’s election was held Monday night and wasn’t won by the party that the thought dictators predicted or wanted to win. The corporate media, academics and many pundits told Alberta they must vote NDP. After all the United Conservative Party had the audacity to say they don’t agree with the Liberal-NDP propaganda. We must accept, perhaps even love the carbon tax in spite of the fact it has a lot more to do with tax than carbon. The Liberal/NDP coalition in Ottawa insists we must bow down at the climate change alter, put our lives on hold so more taxes can be squeezed out of every person, farm and business in the land. We must subsidize EV battery factories, subsidize electric cars even though they are basically useless in rural areas and dangerously impractical on the prairies. Some EVs can’t even make it from Brandon to Winnipeg in cold weather.

But something happened on the way to the election polls. People said no way, we are not going to buy this bullplop. And, as people expressed that impolite expletive, they didn’t care whose sensitivities might be offended by hearing the BS word.

Several CBC commentators, including a former Calgary mayor, dropped their impartiality facade to come to promote the academia/ labour/NDP politically correct stance on everything from gas and oil to mining to electric cars to social issues. The people spoke but in a very

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Rita Friesen