@fire with fire

You connected LBJ to the current era of identity politics in a way that makes perfect sense.

That is difficult to do when that entire span of time is buried in blatant corruption throughout the elected Federal government. When I was a little kid and was told that anyone can grow up to be President, I thought that was really cool. Now I realize that is a mental booby trap for mediocrity. What we have is a congress consisting of the dregs of ignorance, arrogance, and greed. We have no criteria or qualification requirements for office that means anything. This bodes evil.

When I researched China's government system to see how they were able to accomplish so much so quickly and still have a 90+ percent approval rate from the people, I learned a lot about what democracy should look like. The Chinese people vote a lot more often and regularly than Americans do. And they have a lot more direct input into policy at every level than Americans, except for the fabulously wealthy and corrupt. In China, Party members are selected from the best of the most accomplished people in every field or service in society. There are more than 90 million of them, making the Party larger than most nations in the world. All Chinese are eligible to vote for every layer of office holders from local to city to county ro province.

At the top layer in Beijing, China does not have citizens who are professional "politicians." Those positions are held by the most esteemed and respected experts in every field of human endeavor, who have volunteered to devote themselves to serving their nation for a period of time. At the very top levels, it is not just enough to decide to volunteer. Those who wish to govern are sent back to a special university in Beijing in order to get another PhD in government knowledge, which includes 5000 years worth of history, philosophy, law, science, technology, and diplomacy. Only the finest graduates are eligible to sit on the high Counsil. And from them, the entire Council selects the finest minds and the most gifted leaders to rule the country.

When they make their multiyear Plans, all the People are eligible to submit proposals of what should be included. Each of those thousand or so proposals are considered by the council and responded to. The authors of the most popular proposals are invited to Bejing, in some cases, to make their proposal in person to the Assembly — they can be students, farmers, or workers in any field. It takes about a year to incorporate everything into a detailed five-year plan, and the entire Assembly works together on the process. The First Principle is always to make a plan that directly benefits the lives of the People.

It is little wonder that Western governments look like a cruel clown car filled with liars and thieves to the Chinese.

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In general, the posts here are demonstrating far too much impatience. This will not be resolved in a matter of days or weeks, if at all. The truckers are waging asymmetrical non-violent warfare against whoever is driving the global policy of mandatory injections. As I posted before, the beauty of this campaign is that it has ONLY ONE DEMAND.

Within that context, every engagement with City, Provincial or Federal Canadian authorities should be evaluated by whether it gets the truckers closer or further away from the single goal. Honking horns in residential areas was a good tactic for letting the world know that a serious challenge has emerged from the ranks of working people. The risk of that tactic was that it could turn off potential supporters. Since the truckers had no supporters to begin with other than themselves this was a neglible risk. That horn honking contributed to the world wide movement that is getting under way.

But of course it is a pain in the ass to listen to truck horns all day, and the utility of the tactic has evaporated. Mission accomplished. So, in order to give the Mayor of Ottawa a positive reinforcement to his quite reasonable overture, the truckers gave up a tactic that they should have been ready to do about now any way.

When campaigns break your way, this is the kind of luck you get. Now, instead of trying to fight for the right to piss off the citizens of Ottawa, now they can pitch it to the rank and file as a legitimate initial victory -- getting a commitment to leave the demonstration at the Seat of Government unmolested.

Of course the pigs can renege on this deal at any moment -- which, in turn, will really antagonize the rank and file.

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Clearly there are some Old School campaigners working with the truckers. Equally clear is the reality that the Canadian authorities are utterly bumfoozled by assymetrical non-violent warfare. I am pretty sure that Biden and the rest of the New Totalitarian Democrats will continue to be equally inept at responding to the growing rebellion.

Liberals are new to the totalitarian game and they don’t quite have the hang of it yet. They have been out of power since the Lyndon Johnson Administration, and of course six decades later that means today’s liberals have never been in power. I find it ironic that their only connection to the liberalism of the 60s is in the area of Civil Rights. LBJ is alleged to have said that he knew he had turned the country over to the Republicans for a generation when he jammed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Bills through the byzantine institution called the United States Congress.

It turned out to be two generations, but with the elections of Obama and Biden, what is left of American Liberalism is now in control of Congress and the Presidency – and for the first time ever, the main stream media is now an active supporter of what is left of liberal ideology. That of course is the descendent of civil rights – identity politics.

The current agenda of social discipline to fight the pandemic is their first test since regaining power. Seemingly out of nowhere a well organized challenge to the very premise of social discipline has parked a whole bunch of trucks where they don’t belong, and you see how the politicians and their media cheerleaders have hit a brick wall.

They ORDER people to stop supporting those truck driver people who are wrong because we say so. Anybody who believes them is not worthy of any respect.

It’s a kind of Passive Aggressive Fascism.

Instead of Big Brother we now have Big Sibling who calls out those who need calling out and holds everyone accountable for their actions. And blah blah blah. The folks behind the curtain may not appreciate this lily livered approach to Social Discipline.

I wish we did not have to see the next chapter of this miserable dystopian novel we are living.

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