Posted on 03/18/2022 4:05:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Many were shocked to witness the Canadian government’s brutal suppression of the truckers’ protest against vaccine mandates. Previously, draconian lockdowns oppressed many more Canadians, resulting in the arrest of pastors for holding church services. A decade before that, Mark Steyn, a critic of militant Islam, had endured his own government’s “show trial” under Canadian bureaucrats. How could such things happen in the land of those polite, mild Canadians?
The stereotype of Canadians as polite, cooperative people seems to be widely accepted. They often view themselves that way. One Canadian joke goes, “How do you get a hundred drunk and rowdy Canadians out of your pool? You say, ‘Please get out of the pool.’” Comparatively speaking, Americans have probably tended to be more troublesome. Nevertheless, America’s longstanding commitment to individual freedom has also helped to foster many wholesome independent spirits. Without a large number of such people, it does not take much to transform a conformist society into a totalitarian one.
These days unthinking conformity is on the rise. In Canada and elsewhere, the Orwellian euphemism often used to promote a type of enforced, top-down conformity is “community.” It really does not denote any real community but rather the mass of people who submit meekly to high-handed authoritarian decrees. Consequently, they are rewarded with official and social approval. The rest can be ostracized as selfish misfits and troublemakers.
Bruce Bawer elaborates on how the Canadian government uses the “community” cudgel to marginalize dissenters there. Ironically, though the Canadian government justifies its policies in the name of “community,” they undermine real social bonds by isolating people in their homes and punishing grassroots communities like churches for meeting together.
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“For your safety and that of the community, conform. Or else . . . .”
I’ve said this many times —
All through my schooling in the 70s and 80s, I had teachers that discussed Marxism. Some of them obviously liked it. Some of them tried to be neutral on it. All of them thought it was important that American students understand what Marxism was all about. It was the Cold War.
No one ever discussed Fascism.
Fascism was bad. Okay? End of story. It’s rightwing craziness and we don’t talk about it.
But the thing is: any system of political economy which support Big Government, a totalitarian system, and the power of the Group over the rights of the Individual is by definition Collectivist, and is therefore a Leftwing phenomenon. Especially if the political movement calls itself the National Socialist Workers Party.
But the American school system seemed very focused on making sure that American students did NOT know anything about Fascism. So, when it got here, not many people recognized it.
Conformity and Community? Oh, gee, they sound like nice things, don’t they?
A DNA test would settle that once and for all
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