Mf Galaxy

When the New Democratic Party of Alberta formed a majority government in 2015, I quipped that night that Alberta had just become a Western democracy. After all, it was the first time in forty years that the governing Progressive Conservative Party had been voted out. But my joke depressed me. After all, it's just not normal or healthy for any jurisdiction, let alone one of two economic engines of a G-7 liberal democracy, to be shackled to any one party for almost half a century. My joke depressed me because it meant we were just a petro-state. But hey, even Alaska under Sarah Palin paid higher oil royalties to its citizens than Conservative Alberta did. What is up with that? But two years into the NDP's first provincial government, the devastated PC party and the official opposition Wild Rose party have merged under the slogan "Unite the Right." Yep, that slogan. Just a coincidence? Sure… and yet as it turns out, if you drew a Venn diagram of the US "Unite the Right" constituency and that of the Wild Rosers,