William: Do you remember the 30’s? Y’know. People were talking about printing their own currency, restricting the sale and serving of alcohol, and buying homburg hats and knickerbokers. And people were singing about Major Douglas and his A+B theorem?
Margaret: Yeah?
William: There’s a place where that idea still exists as a reality.
Margaret: What is it?
William: The Alberta Social Credit Party.
William: Remember when the Man from Mars would ask why earthmen weren’t intelligent enough to accept Social Credit teachings as the solution to their problems? The whole family would huddle around the radio to listen?
Margaret: Right. I thought that died out a long time ago, like 70 or 80 years ago?
William: Not in the Social Credit Party.
Margaret: So from what I can surmise from what you’re positing, it’s like the Social Credit Party is almost an alternative universe. It’s like all the banks were nationalized and the newspapers are forced to print what the government tells them to? It’s like Peter Lougheed never existed?
William: Exactly! Welcome to the Social Credit Party!
(this post is inspired by The Dream of the 1890s is Alive in Portland and my previous post, The Dream of the 90s is Alive in the UCP)
