Had to come back and write again, having finally made it through "The Rise of Polarization", which is a very good summary of the issues.
The birds flocking here may have many divisions between them, other than their political hobby. Differences in social class, background, religion and other beliefs. Just including "Libertarians" with "Co…
Had to come back and write again, having finally made it through "The Rise of Polarization", which is a very good summary of the issues.
The birds flocking here may have many divisions between them, other than their political hobby. Differences in social class, background, religion and other beliefs. Just including "Libertarians" with "Conservatives" is a reach. Please note, and I'm tempted to capitalize: they never formed any organization, and totally broke up when they finally dispersed. No party. No internal group within the Conservatives, the way US Democrats have a "progressive caucus", the GOP a "freedom caucus". Nothing!
They could not actually work together. A major problem with anybody talking to "the Convoy" was "Who?" No agreed leaders. For me, a major reason to freeze bank accounts was it looked like a scam to funnel the money off the way Steve Bannon did with Americans: there was no organized way to hand the money out, and people who'd donated were never compensated.
But they were so happy to find each other, just like protesters at Idle No More, and Dakota Pipeline; (both of which failed utterly and changed nothing) memories they will carry all their lives, like Woodstock.
...explaining why the Calgary Convoy kept on protesting after all mandates had been dropped, why people were still showing up to shiver around a campfire near Coutts - in *March*, everything long over. They'd found friends, and wanted to keep them.
One last point: if we didn't have a crazy custom of letting 10,000 angry people buy party memberships on Tuesday, replace the leadership on Wednesday, and lose all interest in the party on Thursday, the radicalization would mean a lot less.
Had to come back and write again, having finally made it through "The Rise of Polarization", which is a very good summary of the issues.
The birds flocking here may have many divisions between them, other than their political hobby. Differences in social class, background, religion and other beliefs. Just including "Libertarians" with "Conservatives" is a reach. Please note, and I'm tempted to capitalize: they never formed any organization, and totally broke up when they finally dispersed. No party. No internal group within the Conservatives, the way US Democrats have a "progressive caucus", the GOP a "freedom caucus". Nothing!
They could not actually work together. A major problem with anybody talking to "the Convoy" was "Who?" No agreed leaders. For me, a major reason to freeze bank accounts was it looked like a scam to funnel the money off the way Steve Bannon did with Americans: there was no organized way to hand the money out, and people who'd donated were never compensated.
But they were so happy to find each other, just like protesters at Idle No More, and Dakota Pipeline; (both of which failed utterly and changed nothing) memories they will carry all their lives, like Woodstock.
I wrote a post about it at the time: http://brander.ca/c19#community
...explaining why the Calgary Convoy kept on protesting after all mandates had been dropped, why people were still showing up to shiver around a campfire near Coutts - in *March*, everything long over. They'd found friends, and wanted to keep them.
One last point: if we didn't have a crazy custom of letting 10,000 angry people buy party memberships on Tuesday, replace the leadership on Wednesday, and lose all interest in the party on Thursday, the radicalization would mean a lot less.