Started working on a short post that became too long a post to finish today. So enjoy some video from Canada’s Trucker Revolution:
Instapundit also has an interesting article up: The workers of the world finally had an uprising and the left hates it.
So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there’s no justice, there’s no peace.
Naturally, the left hates it.
For more than a century, lefties have talked about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.
A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get a lot of working-class people killed. It’s not excited about gender fluidity, critical race theory, “modern monetary theory,” foreign adventures and defunding police.
Worse yet, a huge part of the lefty self-image revolves around feeling superior to the working class and openly expressing disdain for it. One need spend only a few minutes tuning into left media like NPR, CNN or MSNBC to hear the disdain for working-class Americans, inhabitants of “flyover country,” people who live in the middle of nowhere.
So naturally, the idea that those people might be staging a revolution is intolerable.
The idea that the wrong kind of people might be demanding freedom is simply intolerable to the left.
Tags: Canada, Canadian Trucker Protest, video
The Canadian truckers freedom rally is in the best traditions of peaceful civil disobedience as advocated by such as Gandhi and MLK Jr. The response of the bubble dwelling elites in Ottawa has been denial and out right lies about the protestors.
It remains to be seen if the Canadian authorities will resort to violence to put down the “insurrection”. If they do there could be an upheaval in Canadian society.