With Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum fast approaching, the atmosphere across the province is a mixture of anticipation, curiosity, and for many, a little bit of worry. It’s completely natural to feel that way. Elections matter, and when people are asked to vote on big questions about the future of their province, they want to be sure that their voice will count and that the process is fair, secure, and trustworthy. That’s why it can be so unsettling to scroll through social media and come across alarming claims that voter information has been lost, deleted, or tampered with. In recent weeks,…

Here is a summary and humanized expansion of the viewpoint expressed in the Buffalo News editorial, “The only communist threat is coming from inside the White House.” Paragraph 1: The Irony of the Accusation The most striking feature of the current political discourse is not the feverish pitch of the rhetoric itself, but the profound disconnect between the words being spoken and the reality they claim to describe. We hear a chorus of alarms, primarily from the right, warning of a creeping “communist” or “socialist” threat that is supposedly infiltrating the highest levels of American government. This accusation is leveled…