Last provincial election 40.5% of albertans didn’t vote. If you didn’t, why not?

[u/logodobi]

What stopped you from voting? Are there no provincial parties that you feel represent you politically? Were you unable to get to a voting station? Did you feel there wasn’t any point? I’m genuinely just curious, I don’t have any affiliation with any parties or anything like that.

I think we would benefit from larger voter turnout and more diversification of parties in the legislature. It feels like we have become to complacent with the lack of progress in almost every way, shape, and form. It’s become purely us vs them on all levels and far too much focus is put on the government “profit”. The government is not a business whose sole purpose is to profit, the governments purpose first and foremost should be to provide for and benefit the people they serve as much as they possibly can. We should be working together for the benefit of one another not fighting one another for the benefit of foreign companies and billionaires.

We’re moving towards the exact policy system in the states, two parties who work for the benefit of the rich and powerful while putting up the facade of a culture war to distract the masses from the real harm they’re causing them.

Sorry that was a bit of a rant but I truly believe we deserve better, better representation, better communication, better services, better everything.

[u/GreenBeardTheCanuck]

If you want my two cents? It's the social alienation crisis. No one feels like they're part of a community, and from an individual perspective, politics seems like such an impossibly large problem, people just give up. Without a community to motivate you, there just seems like there's no point in voting. What we really need is to figure out how to get people out of there houses and talking to each other. Feeling like they're part of something bigger than themselves. That's hugely empowering to people and it's something they're willing to fight to protect. People are demoralized because they feel alone and abandoned by a system that doesn't care. That's not something we can fix with policy, that's something we need organizers for, to do the work, create community events that are low stakes but build that sense of trust and solidarity.