#alberta votes

If you voted UCP today, just know that you voted against my rights as an LGBT+ person. Know that you voted against the education and healthcare systems that I so desperately need. Know that you’re part of the reason I cried on and off for a solid hour and couldn’t get past how afraid I felt. If you voted UCP today, you told me that you don’t care about me or my future, or the future of our province in general.

I know you want the economy to turn around and oil to boom, I want that as much as anybody. But sometimes there’s things more important. Like human rights. We’re facing mandatory GSA reportings, classrooms with 50 kids with 1 teacher, hospitals with 10 patients to 1 nurse. Slashes of wages to those teachers and nurses. I hope everybody who voted UCP does not have kids in the education system, or will need healthcare in the next 4 years. I hope you don’t know any LGBTQ+. I hope you don’t know anyone who’s had or will need an abortion. I hope you don’t know any healthcare workers or teachers. I hope you don’t complain when the price of the carbon tax increases and the money goes straight to Ottawa. And I hope you understand that the government does not control the price of oil, and when the federal government approves the pipeline next month, you remember who laid all the groundwork and fought hard for it.

I am so fucking sad and I am so sorry primarily to LGBTQ youth who couldn’t vote but also to POC, single parents, those in poverty, and vulnerable individuals.

HUH WHY THE FUCK DID YOU VOTE FOR A WHITE SUPREMATIST HOMOPHOBIC TRANSPHOBIC PIECE OF TRASH

But we must keep going and remember anything is possible!! I believe Rachel will continue to do great things and perhaps she’ll have another chance again.

As a future educator in this province I promise to treat all students equally. I am an Albertan who supports LGBTQ. I support women’s rights. I support health care. I support the importance of educating students. I will teach them the importance of working together and fighting for what you believe in. I will teach them that the only way to make a difference is to keep working for something you consider important. You must be the change you want to see in the world. Alberta must learn. We must do better. We are more than oil and gas. We are people who must start to care about everyone in this province and not just the 1% because there is another 99% out there waiting. #BetterOffWithRachel

This is just depressing to see just how stupid my city really is. At least where I live stayed orange. 

Legend 2015

Blue - Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (PCAA)

Green - Wildrose Party

Orange - New Democratic Party

Light Blue - Alberta Party

Legen 2019

Blue - United Conservative Party (PCAA and Wildrose joined together in 2017)

Orange - New Democratic Party