The Honkening
Warning: Excessive honking has become associated with urges for freedom. If you are experiencing these urges, please consume government-controlled media for your daily lobotomy.
The Freedom Convoy has made it to Ottawa and has been peacefully protesting. Although apparently some lefties in Ottawa feel like the amount of honking counts as terrorism and feel ‘sieged’ by honks. It’s giving them anxiety.
Honestly, the one silver lining to Covid and the ridiculousness that has ensued has been the memes. The memes have been funny.
But in all seriousness, it has been crazy to see the numbers of people and trucks that are protesting against the mandates in Canada. Now there is also a group of truckers protesting at a US-CAN border crossing. Here they are praying after deciding to continue with their protest and keep all but one lane blocked.
Between Trudeau and throwing pastors in maximum security prisons I had given up on Canada. I stand corrected now though. There is hope in the Great White North.
Naturally, though the left hates it. How dare people protest?! How dare they disobey the almighty government!
It really is fascinating to watch. The same people who endorsed riots and arson as peaceful protests in 2020 are triggered that citizens dare protest now. It’s disgusting really how little self awareness they have and how hypocritical they are. They just can’t imagine that people actually feel this way, so they blame it on Russian meddling and write articles about non-violent dangers (as if the world needs more people disconnected with reality).
The left has their preferred working class. It’s that of baristas and bartenders and servers. It’s all people who are forced to wear masks and be respectful and listen to the communists or be fired. (just to be clear, I have nothing - well, very little - against baristas.) But the working class who drive goods cross country, who manufacture, who farm, who wire buildings, who repair the roads, who keep the lights on, and the water clean, and the sewer functioning… that working class is best not seen and not heard of. Many of those people are receptive to leftist ideas about money. After all, many of those jobs are hard and it’s frustrating to see Wall Street Bankers or Politicians break the law and make enough money to last you a lifetime while doing it. But at some level these people are socially conservative. They want their kids to go to good schools. They want safe communities. They want to live solid, happy, middle-class lives with the opportunities to try for an upper-middle class existence.
But every day that is farther out of reach. Their kids are being taught to hate themselves and to identify as anything except what God made them. They watch cities burn on TV and the local governments do nothing, and live in fear that such unrest is coming to their town. Now, they’ve seen lockdown after lockdown and nonsensical rules followed by nonsensical laws hurt the economy. Due to inflation, they’ve all taken pay cuts. And now they have to worry about their sons and daughters being sent to die in Ukraine or Taiwan for a government that they don’t trust.
The left is losing the working class because they insist on living in a fantasy world. There is a backlash building, at least in the US and Canada.
I have also seen several remarks about how Trudeau’s a coward for fleeing Ottawa and now supposedly testing positive for Covid at an undisclosed location. People feel that he should’ve at least faced the protestors, maybe even gone out and met them and talked to them. It’s fascinating, because of course he wouldn’t do that. Neither would most of the recent United States Presidents. There is still a belief in North America in radical egalitarianism - that even the leaders of your country are not your betters, but your equals as fellow man. It’s that sentiment which makes the working class despise the journalists, the lawyers, the academics, and the politicians. They act like they are better than the working class, but when push comes to shove, they can’t prove anything. Government functions worse than it ever has before and it’s full of those people.
Western Society will either be grounded in reality, or reality will force us to come back to it. The first option involves a lot less pain.