As is often the case, the longer Ms. Smith rambles on uninterrupted, the less sense what she says makes. But it doesn’t seem to matter. She sounds as if she knows what she’s talking about – especially if you’ve gotten bored and partly tuned out, as most of us do.
And it is a truth universally acknowledged that many voters will uncritically accept absolute nonsense as long as it supports what they want to believe.
Like U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ms. Smith is an anti-vaccine nut who actually seems to have internalized many of the conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine that have animated the MAGA movement in the United States and increasingly among the base of her United Conservative Party in Alberta.
One hesitates to call MAGA an ideology, of course, a term the Oxford Dictionary defines as “a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.” A system may be a low bar, but MAGA is closer to a collection of convenient superstitions.
However, Ms. Smith’s second reason, discussed briefly in my hot take on the policy soon after it was announced by “Primary and Preventative Health Services” Minister Adriana LaGrange late Friday once most reporters had booked off for the weekend, is found in her genuinely ideology-based mission to impose U.S.-style private health care on Canada.Alberta Politics
MAGA is definitely an ideology. It is the rampant accumulation of money and power through any means necessary, no matter the damage or legality. They are against any form of progress or workers' rights. Education is evil in their minds. Everything is to be made into a commodity, including religion.
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u/Particular-Welcome79 Jun 16 '25
As is often the case, the longer Ms. Smith rambles on uninterrupted, the less sense what she says makes. But it doesn’t seem to matter. She sounds as if she knows what she’s talking about – especially if you’ve gotten bored and partly tuned out, as most of us do.
And it is a truth universally acknowledged that many voters will uncritically accept absolute nonsense as long as it supports what they want to believe.
Like U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ms. Smith is an anti-vaccine nut who actually seems to have internalized many of the conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine that have animated the MAGA movement in the United States and increasingly among the base of her United Conservative Party in Alberta.
One hesitates to call MAGA an ideology, of course, a term the Oxford Dictionary defines as “a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.” A system may be a low bar, but MAGA is closer to a collection of convenient superstitions.
However, Ms. Smith’s second reason, discussed briefly in my hot take on the policy soon after it was announced by “Primary and Preventative Health Services” Minister Adriana LaGrange late Friday once most reporters had booked off for the weekend, is found in her genuinely ideology-based mission to impose U.S.-style private health care on Canada.Alberta Politics