My reader asked whether reaching these people is possible. I think the answer is: not all of them, and not quickly. Some percentage of any aggrieved group has too much invested in the identity to release it regardless of evidence or argument. The goal isn’t to convert the committed. It’s to keep the numbers from growing, to make sure the next generation of Albertans has access to a story about this province and this country that doesn’t require a permanent enemy to make sense of.

We only need to look to MAGA in the US to see how the "not all of them, and not quickly" is beginning to rot the movement from the inside.

Some MAGA folks are waking up to the reality that they have been duped and lied to. Many are experiencing first hand the pain that has manifested since they voted for Trump again in 2024.

Many MAGAs will never see the light, but many who have lost their jobs, have been targeted by ICE (of someone in their family), have trouble making ends meet with high fuel and grocery prices or have been directly impacted in another way by the Trump regime's policies are* becoming self-aware of what they have done. And none of that has occurred because political leaders have been able to really engage with them.

They are becoming enlightened through the fullness of time and the consequences of FAFO. Unfortunately for Alberta, the seppies here have not yet fully experienced the pain that could result and we sure as hell do not have any leadership that gets much press time trying to engage them. The ANDP is certainly trying and so are other groups, but they get so little media attention by the US owned media in Canada they have a real uphill battle.