Our Advice To Albertans and Alaskans Q.  Why is our prosperous, fossil fuel-energized way of life under such attack? A. Because that's where the money is. Those of us who want to protect our way of life better strengthen our bleeding hearts and quit compromising. The socialists/communists/anarchists/progressives/democrats/leftists are the extremists.  They want to create welfare states (i.e. a la Chavez, Hitler, Lenin) with themselves in charge.  It's not about "the people"; it's about transferring power and money from our free enterprises to their tightly controlled, dictatorial government enterprises. So our advice [...]