As fears of COVID fade, the gulf between those who represent the power of the nation and those who defend its morality has widened. It has pitted the globalist managerial elites against the workers.
While other countries have relaxed or dropped their Covid mandates, the ideological blindness of the Federal government led it to expand and harden its restrictions. It was the last straw for the working class in our weary nation. It prompted an enormous convoy of truckers, fueled by a sense of injustice.
This clash between the mandates of the mandarins and the morality of the movers has been a pattern around the world over the past two years. It was most evident when the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics was steamrolled by the managers of the Western healthcare establishment, and God-given freedoms were robbed from the people by the power grab of government bureaucracy.
It is the virus itself that has halted this momentum. Omicron has disappointed the opportunist fearmongers. The biggest threat it poses is that its patent weakness undermines the need to continue the regime of mandates and government by fiat.
This is what has made the freedom convoy such a popular story.
People intuit that the clash is as much about the future of democracy, and have a sense that the time to stop the momentum towards a future of despotism is now–before it’s too late. After two years, there has, after all, been no exit strategy announced from the state of emergency declared from on high, or an end to the ‘emergency powers’ seized by politicians in democratic countries. They openly call their unconstitutional restrictions on people ‘the new normal.’
The language is telling and important.
Some might question whether this conclusion is warranted. But witness how the convoy was greeted by the powers-that-be in Canada, and the Prime Minister that has never ceased speaking about the need to fight the climate emergency. Even as the convoy arrived, an impasse could have been avoided. Former Liberal Prime Minister Laurier’s keen sense of the moral limits of power, and the need for reconciliation and concession would have done it. But instead of following the spirit of Laurier, discharging the duties of power, seeking to redress wrongs, or even granting an audience to the petitioners, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave them a stone.
He acted as if power was a privilege, not a duty.
The stonewalling that has ensued has only fueled the convoy’s cause. It created an immediate surge in popular support for the truckers, and incited popular peaceful rebellions around the globe.
Rather than walking their decision back or engaging in dialogue, the government has remained stony-faced. There is still no dialogue or debate. They think this is about power, and nothing else. And they regard absolute power as their privilege, if not divine right. So do all despots.
How can they remain committed to such a brazen assault on their own public image?
The reasons are twofold and linked. Many in our political class have never learned how to debate or reach common ground with their opponents, and they have resolutely committed themselves to a climate ideology with a similarly tyrannous appeal to urgency and powers to combat it.
The lazy intellectual habits of the political elites and their comfort with despotic power is being exposed now that they are clearly unnecessary to deal with the crisis at hand.
Yet it has simultaneously exposed the great betrayal of the working class by the political left. The political establishment has ironically performed the miracle of turning bread into stones even while they mouth platitudes of operating on behalf of the marginalized and oppressed.
This universal human proclivity to stone others for their sins while being blind to their own, has become a habit of thought of the elites. Habits can be broken. They need to heed Jesus’ words: He that is without sin, cast the first stone.
The workers want the bread of their lives back.
The elites and their apologists need to repent.
