Rage on behalf of the machine
On polling, Liberal meltdowns, weaknesses endemic to the Canadian character, and the loathsome Charlie Angus.
Political regimes tend to fall apart slowly, then all at once.
As the world turns, and inner circles devolve into sanctuaries for only the most fervent of supporters — and those with ambitions other than ‘proximity to power’ are weeded out — generalissimos are known to grow fat, then happy, then paranoid and indignant as their grasp slips; until, one day, the proverbial coup, or an angry mob arrives at their doorstep.
In the not-all-that-curious case of one Justin Trudeau, that mob already arrived at his doorstep two Februaries ago. Little did he know then, that even as he broke the highest laws in the land to quell the rabble, he was only buying himself time: three years, at best.
But it’s beginning to look more like two.
The Hatfields losing to the McCoys by 150 seats doesn’t just lend itself to Trudeau being made to follow in his father’s footsteps on that infamous “walk in the snow,” we’re firmly in Eskimo-tribe-leaves-its-elderly-and-enfeebled-behind-on-an-ice-floe territory.
When even the female voter demographic finally abandons the man who Kokanee-groped his way to one last fleeting minority government, after a brazen Covid-lockdown-election couldn’t return his precious majority rule, the die is cast.
Perhaps most notably, the new results show a vast migration of Canadian women into the arms of the Tories.
This time last year, any rise in Conservative fortunes was coming almost exclusively from male voters. But a plurality of Canadian women are now stating their intention to vote Conservative; 38 per cent against 26 per cent still backing the Liberals . . .
As to what’s caused tens of thousands of Canadian women to apparently break with tradition by siding with the Conservatives, the easy answer is that so much of Canada is going wrong right now that it’s prompting whole demographics to consider voting Tory for the first time ever. (National Post)
Adding to Trudeau’s latest trouble with the ladies, Liberal pollster Nik Nanos found that “just 3 percent” of surveyed Canadians feel that Justin Trudeau staying on as Liberal leader offers them their best chance at victory.
With the situation being this desperate for such a ‘democratically-challenged’ group of idealogues — but, more importantly, with it being far more desperate for the actual citizens living under the rule of criminal pandemic profiteers, sickening, repeated displays of “post-national” decline, the far-left’s eery abdication on all matters of crime or borders, and rampant unaffordability, with historic housing and healthcare shortages — emotionally regulated, self-respecting adults like you and I expected a low-road approach from the Liberals and their NDP house servants. But this low?
*Presses play on ‘Guerilla Radio’ by Rage Against the Machine, from the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 soundtrack*
You almost — almost — have to give MPs like Charlie Angus, Marc Miller, and Mark Gerretsen credit for their utter refusal to accept movements back towards common sense, and policies less deliberately terrible and destructive to the very fabric of civilization.
In the case of Miller, Canada’s ruinous Minister of Population Traps, $3000 One-Bedroom Apartments, Cheap Indian Labour, & Increasing Your Chances Of Dying In A Hospital Hallway, the former Trudeau groomsman can’t stop sucking and blowing on matters of decorum.
Better to continue to be profane, it seems, in the face of hard data on Liberal failures on crime, catch-and-release, and so-called ‘safe injection,’ than it is to do one’s job better, and to perhaps let in a few-hundred-thousand-less cheap labourers and Canada-haters transforming our cities for the worse.
In the case of our old friend Mark Gerretsen, who, on his best day, is now giving Joe Biden a run for his money intellectually, he’s turned to fighting with his constituents on Facebook.
And yet, no one has raged on behalf of the machine quite like NDP MP Charlie Angus.
For those who are lucky enough to not have to spend hours each day inside the methane-filled Canadian political biosphere, last week, the NDP’s Charlie Angus, ostensibly Jagmeet Singh’s #2, quite literally put forward a private member’s bill that would prescribe jail terms for speaking well of fossil fuels.
Not only has he sought to criminalize the very promotion of the Canadian oil and gas sector, but if one were to even say scientifically true things, such as “burning natural gas is cleaner than burning coal,” the proposed jail term is up two years.
(Heck, even Max Fawcett thinks it’s nuts, and he writes for a pretend newspaper, the National Observer, that exists to log-roll for Net-Zero.)
What Angus is proposing is the Patriot Act for men who should have their testosterone levels checked, but what’s perhaps even worse is the manner in which he’s proposing it.
There are many weaknesses endemic to the Canadian character, perhaps none more insufferable than the boomers who think they’re still sticking it to the man, when they’ve been in power for decades.
Angus, an actual punk rocker, who claims to be a passionate representative for Indigenous Canadians — as all brain-rotted progressives and aging hipsters claim to be, as they engage in land acknowledgements and hang their orange shirts, but would never dare give that land back — would also, in effect, be placing his pale, white hands *gasp!* around the throat of multiple Indigenous-led LNG projects, that appear destined for success under a Poilievre government.
Any supposedly grown-ass man who attempts to tighten the window on free speech, who seeks to deny any decent citizen the right to self-determination, and who would so willingly seek to relitigate such basic principles of biology and ecology should of course be fiercely mocked.
But, more importantly, such weakness of character must be resoundingly defeated. This is, after all, the same mind virus that kneeled during a fiery but mostly peaceful summer, allowed for church burnings while defenestrating along with subsidized media and risk-averse corporations, that sought to unperson even unvaccinated children, tax the air, and, of late, has been shocked to learn that legalized crime and the cities and towns we grew up in being objectively worse and more dangerous hasn’t been a winner at the polls.
Let them rage on behalf of the machine — and against the dying of their political light. But don’t let up, and don’t feel sorry for making it personal.
A generation of well-to-do, ostensibly (occasionally?) well-meaning progressives got this very, very wrong. You have every right to want to reclaim what was once rightfully yours, before the next not-so-merry band of secular, establishment missionaries comes knocking with a fresh batch of luxury beliefs destined to fail the stress test.
Political regimes tend to fall apart slowly, then all at once.
Savour this one.
Just don’t forget to make it count.
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"A generation of well-to-do, ostensibly (occasionally?) well-meaning progressives got this very, very wrong. You have every right to want to reclaim what was once rightfully yours, before the next not-so-merry band of secular, establishment missionaries comes knocking with a fresh batch of luxury beliefs destined to fail the stress test".
But how many times they got it wrong, covered it up, and looked the other way while churches burned, accounts were frozen, people literally and figuratively trampled, and shovelled untold wheelbarrows of taxpayer dollars out the window.
All the while lecturing us as to who we are as Canadians and smugly virtue-signalling about everything they were doing the opposite.
If these Liberals carry on voting after this, it must be with their heads firmly in the sand or up their a$$ses.
Delicious material Alex. Spot on analysis, as usual. Good to see that Biden's renowned intellectual prowess was referenced effectively. The Western World is "governed" by some feebleminded individuals, who also don't score high on the morality test. Gonna be an interesting year.