My exposure to Canadians has been limited.\u00a0 I had a good friend at a couple of my jobs back in the 90\u2019s and he was intelligent, funny and friendly.\u00a0 But, as with all Canadians I\u2019ve known, he was noticeably obsessed with following the rules.\u00a0 I recently worked with a Canadian who was unfriendly, sarcastic and unimaginative but likewise he was a box checker.\u00a0 He followed the rules as painfully as anyone I\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n
What are the chances that Canada as a whole, or even a majority of them decide to break the rules?\u00a0 My guess is, it\u2019s very unlikely.\u00a0 With the trucker\u2019s protest going on in Ottawa Trudeau has banked on the ingrained obedience of Canadians to allow him to crush the protest without more than a minor amount of resistance.\u00a0 And even if the truckers put up a good fight and the police have to beat and maybe kill a few good men, the rest of Canada will stand idly by and watch it without as much as a shout of outrage at the injustice.\u00a0 I think this is what will happen.<\/p>\n
But as well behaved as Canadians are, will they be so easily cowed that when it comes time to re-elect their government in 2023 that they will just resignedly push the lever for the government that crushed a peaceful protest?\u00a0 Are they that spiritless and docile?\u00a0 My guess is they are not.<\/p>\n
Americans have collectively reached their limit of COVID fascism.\u00a0 Even the true-believers are exhausted and dispirited over continuing the soul crushing exercise that forces people to be inoculated with vaccines that don\u2019t vaccinate and wear masks that don\u2019t protect.\u00a0 They\u2019re tired of their children missing their childhood while they wear masks while trying to play in the schoolyard and even while playing sports.\u00a0 By March even that dolt Biden will be forced to end the mandates.\u00a0 He knows the mandates are killing his presidency and he\u2019s cowardly enough to reverse direction to avoid his approval rating reaching single digits.\u00a0 Several European countries have already eliminated the COVID restrictions altogether.\u00a0 It will happen everywhere soon.<\/p>\n
So, I\u2019m guessing even the hypercompliant Canadians must be reaching their limit too.\u00a0 And if in this state of mind, they get to see, on the six o\u2019clock news, the storm troopers in Ottawa hauling hard-working Canadians off to jail I think this will be enough to piss them off.\u00a0 I think it will be similar to what we saw in Virginia.\u00a0 Basically, liberals who are pushed too far.\u00a0 They will toss Trudeau and the Liberals out of power.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know much about the Canadian Conservative party.\u00a0 I assume they are much like the spineless Republican establishment; useless.\u00a0 But it\u2019s always possible that some few men with backbones could seize the opportunity to revolt against the mealy-mouthed hollow suits who follow along with the Liberals.\u00a0 Maybe this could be their Trump moment when they wake up from the dream and try to take their country back.\u00a0 Or maybe they\u2019ll just follow the rules and dig their own graves as the rules tell them to.<\/p>\n
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