Fool me twice, shame on Canadians

The Liberal Party used emotional manipulation to scare and divide Canadians during Covid and they're doing it again now.

Four years ago, the Liberal Party offered Canadians a crisis: Covid was coming for you and your loved ones, and you had the opportunity to play hero.

“Stay home, stay safe!” became the mantra of the good. If you cared about grandma, your neighbours, and your country you would lockstep and follow the arrows around the grocery store.

Fear-mongering is powerful. It always had been. And politicians know it. Whipping Canadians up into an emotional frenzy about Covid—a virus that was as threatening as a cold for most—served the most powerful, but the power of propaganda allowed Canadians to believe they were in a fight for their lives, when in reality they were offering themselves up as good soldiers for a tryrannical regime.

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party not only had Covid to offer up as the enemy to war against, but fellow Canadians—the baddies who refused to wear masks, refused to stay home and isolate, refused to get the scam-vaccine, and who insisted on making use of their consistutional rights. People were encouraged to report their neighbours for having family over for Christmas dinner, for failing to quarantine after travel, or for gathering in public parks.

“Spot a COVIDIOT? Here’s how to report coronavirus rule-breakers,” a Global News headline read. “Snitching is meant to reinforce social harmony and cohesion, and right now social norms are changing so quickly that more people are working to make sure everyone abides by new protocols,” Kate White, a marketing and behavioural science professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, explained to the CBC. The City of Vancouver set up a snitch line so people could report “violations of B.C.'s public health orders.” Alternatively, they were directed to call the police.

Many provinces did the same, and many eagerly complied. Canada became more divided than ever before, as citizens turned on their friends, family members, coworkers, and neighbours for daring to question nonsense and demand their constitutional rights be respected.

Surely we learned something from this debacle. We nearly lost all of our rights, after all. And for what? A great big lie? So a few could make millions or billions off of a vaccine that not only didn’t work, but harmed and in some cases killed many more than it helped?

Surely we learned to beware emotional manipulation, fear-mongering, and invented enemies that direct us away from those who serve to gain from pointing us in the wrong direction…

Nope! Canadians announced this past week. We learned nothing, and we don’t plan to!

The convenient timing of still-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s suspension of parliament, allowing him to avoid a non-confidence motion, forcing his resignation and an election the Liberal Party was guaranteed to lose has revealed itself as evermore convenient as the party has apparently installed a new leader, minus the democratic process. Mark Carney, who comes to us humbly from Goldman Sachs, the Bank of Canada, and the Bank of England (an outsider, he tells us), has been plucked by Trudeau and his team—his campaign to become the next leader managed by the PMs ex-advisor, Gerald Butts, and chief of staff, Katie Telford. He is Trudeau 2.0, in terms of politics, and in terms of dictatorial aims, too, apparently, as he prepares to take on the role of elected leader without an election.