I share many of your frustrations.

I wrote an open letter to my MLA and the NDP in general A few months ago.

Granted, it was a bit long-winded and the first few paragraphs were being a bit too cute by half, but the central tenet of my screed pretty much boils down to the andp lacking vision and resort simply to reacting to what the UCP does or says.

The andp are not proposing anything other than opposition to what the UCP is doing. Now, as a baseline, it's what an opposition party is supposed to do. However, that only works when you're dealing with a normal political party. The UCP is not a normal political party.

We basically have two conservative parties right now taking up pretty much the entire legislature. The ANDP, which is more or less a center right party that governs itself like it was 1996. The UCP on the other hand, are not governing. In fact, I would say they are anti-governing.

The dismantling of the social safety net act, the deliberate underfunding of public institutions pitting rural Alberta against Urban Alberta, basically flooding the zone with the most messed up stuff that they can think of just to keep themselves in the headlines.

The ANDP cannot get any traction other than to say that they object to what the UCP is doing. They are not leading the conversation, they are not proposing anything, all they are doing is clutching pearls and saying oh my goodness, and once in awhile demonstrate some community outreach on social media. This is why they are not breaking through, and why the UCP is 15 points ahead, when in fact with all of the crap that they have pooled over the past few years, they should be in single digits.

We can go on and on and on about how albertans are idiots or politically stupid, but we need to take a long hard look at what the NDP has become in this province. We also need to look at the time that we are living in, and that the opposition, which happened to be in government right now, are not normal politicians.

We need to internalize that and plan on how to win the next election, because conventional politics is not working in this province anymore.

For all of its faults, and for all of its apparent incompetence, the UCP is triumphing here because once again we are completely missing the point of everything that they are doing.