It’s been a decade since the now-UCP leader was politically exiled for the “Lake of Fire” incident. Why are people reacting so differently to her behaviour now?
, who’s currently in a neck-and-neck race to lead the country’s fourth-largest province, according to the polls., of course, whose career was scorched a decade ago by a political controversy — sparked by yet more problematic comments — still known locally as the Lake of Fire.
Time will tell if her most recently unearthed comments will hurt Smith at the polls. There are many in Alberta who are very wary of her opinions. Still, her extreme statements haven’t, it seems, ruled her out yet as the province’s next leader. But while the Lake of Fire controversy shocked voters back in 2012, voters have since spent a decade becoming familiar with populist rhetoric, listening to Donald Trump and even absorbing a slow drip of comments from Smith, he said. If anything, she’s on the vanguard of a new wave of politicians — and this includes people outside Alberta — who are more comfortable putting extreme opinions out there.The irony is few know better than Smith what an unpopular remark can do to a campaign.
Then a blog post surfaced that had been written by a Wildrose candidate and pastor named Allan Hunsberger. Riffing on Lady Gaga’s gay anthem “Born This Way,” he wrote: “You can live the way you were born, and if you die the way you were born then you suffer the rest of eternity in the lake of fire, hell, a place of eternal suffering.”Social media was a player in that Alberta election for the first time, and the post quickly bounded from Twitter into mainstream headlines, sparking outrage.
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