Oddbean new post about login | logout @682494d6 I spent 8 weeks on the prairies in the early 90s. When I took a bus back I couldn't believe how beautiful all the topography and green was. It was pretty profound.
@682494d6 The Prairies made me wasnt to shoot myself. The whole time.
@682494d6 We have a knack for voting provincially in that old socialist 'Kick it down the road' kinda way hippies do.
@682494d6 For decades the Social Credit Party ran this place. The knock on them was they were the party of retirees and pensioners. Turns out pensioners had decent values and expectations.
@682494d6 But then the NDP got in. BC should've known better. By the time we were electing Mike Harcourt, the former Mayor of Vancouver, we all had enough data to work with to ignore the NDP. But no....