Jason: Do you remember the 90’s? Y’know. People were talking about flat-taxes and buying paisley neckties. And people were singing about budget deficits and debt and reforming the Senate?
Maggie: Yeah?
Jason: There’s a place where that idea still exists as a reality and I’m leading it
Maggie: What is it?
Jason: The United Conservative Party.
Jason: Remember when kids at private schools dreamed of growing up to be Preston Manning? Everyone listened to compact discs and wore Doc Martens? When we’d stay up until 11pm eating take-out pizza and admiring Ronald Reagan?
Maggie: Right. I thought that died out a long time ago.
Jason: Not in the UCP.
Maggie: So from what I can surmise from what you’re positing, it’s like the UCP is almost an alternative universe. It’s like Ralph Klein never stopped blowing up hospitals and closing schools. The Notley government never happened.
Jason: Exactly!
Maggie: In the UCP it’s almost like government doesn’t exist, right? People drive big trucks. They drive double decker trucks! There is no carbon tax!*
Jason: Welcome to the UCP!
*Except there totally is a carbon tax.
(this post is inspired by The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland)
