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Freedom Convoy protests have exposed the deep divisions in our nation
National Post [Canada] ^ | Tuesday February 8, 2022 | Rex Murphy

Posted on 02/08/2022 4:02:15 AM PST by canuck_conservative

Who knew that GoFundMe operates as the woke court of cancellation culture? As an utterly self-nominated moral clearing house? ... The intrusion of the tech monarchs into the politics of our democracies is grim and dangerous....

[The Protest] started around mandates and triple vaccines as they affected a single industry, but it is now so much more. It is among other things, a contest over civil rights; the guttering of the Charter; about Canadian politics as seen from the metropolises of central Canada versus the view from the always less regarded concerns and sensibilities of rural and Western Canada.

Also, as it has evolved, it has given form to the deep divisions of class and economic standing made starkly manifest under the COVID lockdown regimes — a brutal rebuttal of that silly mantra that “diversity is our strength.” Not when diversity takes the form of one set of Canadians having it rather better than another set. And certainly not when one set, those at the lower end of economic security, mount a protest and receive contemptible denunciation from the prime minister and some of the higher elements of the Canadian press...

Who has most carried the hard weight of the COVID regime imposed by their governments and the protected class? Everyone knows the answer to that question: those in precarious economic positions, the independent, the unpensioned, blue-collar workers....

Those most shielded by secure or government employment, those inoculated by high income from emergent and record inflation, have from the altitude of their security and comfort affected a dismissive, scornful and mean attitude....

The current protest is the marker of that unfortunate divide. A sign, too, of a new divide in our governance, where politics has swollen into a kind of moral marker, or an identity tag.....

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freedomconvoy; frustration; pminhiding; protests
Politicians and journalists had the security of continuous employment and a paycheck all through the Covid mess, while ordinary workers were hammered, fiscally and psychologically ... now they look down on us, and then wonder why we're ticked off

this is why protests are happening everywhere around the World, not just Canada, everybody is in the same situation

and Big Media, with their slanders and pre-planned narratives, is doing a lousy job at covering this!!

1 posted on 02/08/2022 4:02:15 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative
The socialists in power (who have embraced corporatism for the most part) are upset that the workers of the world are uniting against them.

The workers just want Freedom. How very Trumpian of these brave canooks. No wonder Fidel Trudope's claws are out and the press is hissing.

2 posted on 02/08/2022 4:09:03 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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3 posted on 02/08/2022 4:09:39 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: canuck_conservative

The Commies are angry that the workers have united against them.


4 posted on 02/08/2022 4:42:28 AM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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To: canuck_conservative

Notice how the GOP is NOT taking up the cause of the average American worker.....


5 posted on 02/08/2022 4:46:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Travis McGee

Romanian Term Limits.


6 posted on 02/08/2022 4:47:15 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: canuck_conservative

The “big media” is now financed by pharma and the gubmint.

How many car commercials, cereal, etc do you see?


7 posted on 02/08/2022 4:50:11 AM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: canuck_conservative

The fascists in government don’t like it when the folks have had enough with the repression.


8 posted on 02/08/2022 4:59:17 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Sirius Lee

As Prager has noted: Communists care as much about workers as school boards care about students.


9 posted on 02/08/2022 5:03:43 AM PST by glennaro (Do not live your life in irrational fear. Live unmasked, unvaxxed, untested; unbullied and unafraid.)
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To: canuck_conservative

The “big media” is now financed by pharma and the gubmint.

How many car commercials, cereal, etc do you see?


10 posted on 02/08/2022 5:08:04 AM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: Travis McGee

No masks, no ‘injections’, no mandates.


11 posted on 02/08/2022 5:15:28 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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“Notice how the GOP is NOT taking up the cause of the average American worker.....”

Maybe not the leadership, yet, but plenty are...we just have to choose to see that. Things are FAR DIFFERENT in the party than 10 years ago.


12 posted on 02/08/2022 6:05:43 AM PST by BobL (Money is the most important thing in my life.)
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To: canuck_conservative

I dont understand why a conservative alternative to go fund me hasn’t popped up, it’s not like it’s that hard.


13 posted on 02/08/2022 6:06:43 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022


14 posted on 02/08/2022 6:51:14 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: central_va

Agree, most of the Big Names in the GOP are silent. Other than Trump, they need to STFU and stay that way. Their silence is, in my opinion, an advantage to the GOP down in the ranks.

Big GOP names are RINOs, so their help is not needed or wanted. They burned those bridges years ago.

Let this mess fall directly on the Dems. They will deflect ANY perceived GOP support as a GOP plot. THIS is the Dems Petard! Hoist them and hoist them HIGH!!!


15 posted on 02/08/2022 8:08:48 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Notice how the GOP is NOT taking up the cause of the average American worker.....

Not a peep from them. Scared little politicians who wish the whole freedom thing would just go away.
16 posted on 02/08/2022 8:24:08 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: canuck_conservative

Bttt.

5.56mm


17 posted on 02/08/2022 9:00:29 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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