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Dougal's avatar

This interview with Lydia reminded me of last year's trucker's strike and the many "man" in the street interviews done with protestors by independent media. Of particular interest were the comments of people from eastern europe, most of whom had immigrated to Canada decades ago. When asked why they were there supporting the truckers they almost to a person said that the Trudeau government's actions reminded them of the oppression they escaped from and they didn't like what they saw here at all. They fear for the future of Canada.

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All of Canada is undergoing balkanization and in every way imaginable. From region to language to religion to ethnicity this division is growing into every nook and cranny of the country facilitated by a belief within our institutions that increasing division and tearing down whatever has come before equals progress. In fact, no one belongs anywhere anymore except by tribe. So any attempt to unite, to bring people together to <i>build</i> anything except walls to further separate us based on immutable characteristics, is vilified as some kind of evil and intolerant right wing extremism. As is any criticism of this progressive model. Yet the words of this so-called progress used to divide and separate the tribes from shared values seem ever so virtuous, like tolerance and diversity and equity, like recognition and reconciliation and settlement, like rights and freedoms and 'correcting' historical grievances. But these terms themselves have been balkanized to mean the opposite in practice and so the nation itself spirals ever further into social dysfunction and international irrelevancy. It seems clearer and clearer that the population of today's disenfranchised Canadian majority has become nothing more than the necessary means to be the cash cow to pay for the increasing enfranchised tribalism. And so we continue to vote for more of the same and feel righteous and patriotic for doing so.

This will not end well.

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