To topic, colour me skeptical. Physical uprisings really do require millions to commit and stay committed - Egypt found out that support dies the moment the New Team gets even slightly radical. Pow! Back to the safety of the dictators they know - and those are actual dictators.
The most heartwarming moment of the Convoy story was when the…
To topic, colour me skeptical. Physical uprisings really do require millions to commit and stay committed - Egypt found out that support dies the moment the New Team gets even slightly radical. Pow! Back to the safety of the dictators they know - and those are actual dictators.
The most heartwarming moment of the Convoy story was when the RCMP posted up the table-of-guns at Coutts (for some reason, no need to hide them for years while investigating their source, like Portapiq, something no newsie asked them about) the next image on TV was a line of tractors packing up and leaving, because the supportive local farmers dropped all support when guns were seen.
Some cops were murdered in the middle of 2020, and nothing did more damage to the BLM efforts; "Defund" proved politically toxic. Look at the 2021 election, turning in the same parliament after all the intense drama of 2020: people don't *like* revolutionary change, shy away from it unless they're starving or otherwise desperate.
Making your party out to be some kind of revolutionaries, demanding rapid change, is a loser campaign, unless you are running for king of the National Post comments columns.
The latter half of the 20th century tells us that this kind of, yeah, loser rhetoric doesn't work well in Western democracies. But I can't think of many instances where it has become this entrenched. Which isn't to say that I think civil war is actually coming — I don't think it is! But I don't think we know what comes next. Having people believe that the unimaginable is, actually, possible — and likely — is a very strange thing that can produce some unexpected results.
To topic, colour me skeptical. Physical uprisings really do require millions to commit and stay committed - Egypt found out that support dies the moment the New Team gets even slightly radical. Pow! Back to the safety of the dictators they know - and those are actual dictators.
The most heartwarming moment of the Convoy story was when the RCMP posted up the table-of-guns at Coutts (for some reason, no need to hide them for years while investigating their source, like Portapiq, something no newsie asked them about) the next image on TV was a line of tractors packing up and leaving, because the supportive local farmers dropped all support when guns were seen.
Some cops were murdered in the middle of 2020, and nothing did more damage to the BLM efforts; "Defund" proved politically toxic. Look at the 2021 election, turning in the same parliament after all the intense drama of 2020: people don't *like* revolutionary change, shy away from it unless they're starving or otherwise desperate.
Making your party out to be some kind of revolutionaries, demanding rapid change, is a loser campaign, unless you are running for king of the National Post comments columns.
The latter half of the 20th century tells us that this kind of, yeah, loser rhetoric doesn't work well in Western democracies. But I can't think of many instances where it has become this entrenched. Which isn't to say that I think civil war is actually coming — I don't think it is! But I don't think we know what comes next. Having people believe that the unimaginable is, actually, possible — and likely — is a very strange thing that can produce some unexpected results.
I doubt very much that full on, country engulfing civil war is coming but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see a pretty big uptick in violence.