Of course, most will appreciate that this is a variation on the late 1960s “What if they had a war and no one came?”. Well, America’s rage for an internal war against orderly society has not been happening in Canada. Despite Prime Minister Trudeau and his media going on about racial dissension, Canada has been spared the riots and property destruction seen in U.S. Democrat cities. Unable or unwilling to protect citizens, even police have been forced out of their premises.
While the scorn for orderly society prevails, that there have been no riots is not due to Canada’s habits of politeness. It is due the fact that Canada is already a fellow traveler on the global advance of authoritarian government.
And it is not that Canada’s respect for law and order has spared us the equivalent of Democrat-ruined cities. The United States’ constitutional regard for freedom is the biggest barrier to the drive to impose authoritarian government around the world. And as with previous such experiments, today’s Left does not allow argument by the opposition. Moreover, any opposition must be destroyed. Much the same was employed by the Bolsheviks on the way to Russia’s “Workers’ Paradise”, which turned out to be the Gulag.
Canada’s key cities have not been trashed because there is little opposition to global authoritarian ambition. It takes a lot of money and organization to have so many riots erupt so spontaneously. No sense wasting the effort in Canada where it is not needed.
But before going any further, it is appropriate to bring up the definition of a totalitarian system from physics.
“That which is not prohibited compulsory”.
Which elegantly describes every political ambition from Communism to school boards. In Canada, from NDP to Liberal and from “Pink” to “Red” Tories. That’s on the secular side, and on the new religions side there is Environmentalism and Global Warming.
All provide attractive banners to inspire intrusion into someone else’s life. Everyone must be controlled and, of course, always for their own good. In every aspect of life and forever.
Fortunately, history provides examples of what happens when in-your-wallet and in-your-face government becomes just too much. The public gets fed up. And then looks at how well the governing classes are living, looks at their promises and then looks at how little is getting down to them.
The first step is popular dissatisfaction, from which there have been two alternatives. Benign reform or malignant revolution, of which the latter have been brutal. With the French and Russian Revolutions, popular dissatisfaction fell into the hands of neurotic intellectuals, who turned to state murder to improve society. And the drive for planning and control became bloody reigns of terror.
In France the Committee of Public Safety become the agency of terror. In Soviet Russia the Bolsheviks created a constitution limiting the powers of government. But in appointing Communists to head every agency empowered a lengthy reign of terror.
The other result to popular dissatisfaction has been benign popular uprisings, which date back to dynastic changes in Ancient Egypt.
More recent examples have been instructive. The “Prague Spring” of 1968, was murderously put down by Moscow. The apparatus of control did not lose the will to impose authority.
In 1989, a popular uprising inspired by the same-old government iniquities brought down the Berlin Wall, soon followed by Communist governments around the world.
That uprising was not murderously put down as there was an instant when the Communist Deep State lost the will to impose authority. And at the same moment the public realized it and rose out of its complacency, eventually, shutting down the political movement that had murdered some one hundred million of their own people.
The public was unarmed and the state was armed, but the will of ordinary folk prevailed.
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Ironically, today’s popular uprisings are not another example of disaster headed by neurotic intellectuals. Indeed, as the latter has been the old story, but the new movement is quite the opposite.
That today’s petite bourgeoisie have become the latest avant-garde would drive yesterday’s intellectuals mad.
An intrusive revolution has been driven by ambitious control freaks over the last 30 years. The longest-running exercise in control has been central banking that was set up to prevent recessions, which has not worked.
The other big promotion shows astounding audacity. A government committee can “manage” the climate of the nearest planet.
Wow!
Actually, an impressive, but not yet bloody revolution has been in play, and in discovering opposition it has recently turned nasty. How malignant will it get? No one knows, but the new and exciting political movement is towards reform. Reform of yet another destructive experiment in authoritarian government.
And as with previous examples, the biggest urge to reform will be inspired as federal and local levels of government go broke. There is never enough money to fund the unlimited ambition of neurotic intellectuals. But when folks at home have to tighten their belts there will be little support for fanciful and costly government promotions. Particularly those perpetrated by globalists and their United Nations.
Using the opportunities of panics about weather and another influenza, Canada’s parliament has been bypassed by an ambitious Prime Minister’s Office. Artificial fear has been employed to promise artificial security.
But common sense cannot be suppressed forever and in avoiding the “Riots du Nord” ordinary Canadians can soon introduce the “Reform du Nord”.
Bob Hoye (BobHoye.com) has been researching investments for decades, which eventually included the history of financial and political markets. He considers now to be the most fascinating time for both since the Great Reformation of the 1600s. Bob casts a caustic eye on all promotions and, having a degree in geophysics, is severely critical of the audacity that a committee can “manage” not just the economy, but also the temperature of the nearest planet. He has had articles published in major financial journals and, as a speaker, has amused assemblies in a number of cities, from London to Zurich to Tokyo.
Of course, most will appreciate that this is a variation on the late 1960s “What if they had a war and no one came?”. Well, America’s rage for an internal war against orderly society has not been happening in Canada. Despite Prime Minister Trudeau and his media going on about racial dissension, Canada has been spared the riots and property destruction seen in U.S. Democrat cities. Unable or unwilling to protect citizens, even police have been forced out of their premises.
While the scorn for orderly society prevails, that there have been no riots is not due to Canada’s habits of politeness. It is due the fact that Canada is already a fellow traveler on the global advance of authoritarian government.
