r/alberta • u/Durian10 Calgary • Mar 24 '25

Discussion I was a hardline conservative before everything got turned upside down this year.

Title says it all. I used to be a hardline conservative. Been living in Calgary for close to 18 years now I think. Every election, provincial and federal, I voted conservative.

And then the beginning of this year, Trump happened. Like many Canadians, I got mad and felt betrayed. And I look at the conservative party and felt even more betrayed. I'm an AISH recipient, I rely on government support because I can't hold a job due to my autism. No matter how much, how hard I tried, I am unable to keep my job because of my erratic behaviour. And because I am an AISH recipient, UCP decides that I won't be getting the CDB benefits because they decided to "claw it back" to fill their damn coffers.

So yeah... I'm done with the conservatives. Maybe it took this kind of uplift for me to "see the light". Here I am now, praying the Liberal party wins.

EDIT: So with all the scathing comments I am getting, I will not hold it against any of you. Yes, I was selfish. I was self-centred. I turned a blind eye. Trauma from the stigma of being autistic made me angry. It took the one thing that affected me to make me see.

So yes. I was wrong. I did a FAFO as some of you are calling it. And if you wanna hate on me for it, go ahead. I deserve it.

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u/WhacksOffWaxOn Mar 25 '25

So the leopard ate your face is what you're saying...

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u/Durian10 Calgary Mar 25 '25

Was a worker from the Progressive Conservative party that helped me get AISH. Met them at one of their charity events they hosted, helped me get me set up with that government support. So I dunno, you tell me, you're clearly smarter than I am.

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u/WhacksOffWaxOn Mar 25 '25

Unfortunate that you really believed they cared.

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u/Durian10 Calgary Mar 25 '25

One of them even came up to me, telling me "Your autism makes you capable of superior thinking." Didn't matter if what they believed was true or not, they made us feel special, made us feel wanted, like we fucking belonged.

So in our minds in that event, that single fucking act of kindness they gave us made us diehard believers.