To be clear, this is a left critique of the left. I'm sure someone could write something similar about the failures of the Republican Party. But the fact remains that Dems are running the federal government right now, and their theory of the case (leave it to the "experts") has been a catastrophic failure. I have many disagreements with Republicans. But it is Democrats who are rushing to set up Apartheid in the jurisdictions under their control.
The question remains though: how exactly did Democrats squander the demographic wave that was coming their way? I have a few thoughts, I imagine you'll be able to add others:
1.) Obama bailed out the banks but ignored homeowners after the 2008 global financial crash. Voters noticed.
2.) The claims by Judis & Teixeira were always overstated because they assume that Latinos vote as a block. They don't. Cuban Americans vote differently than Puerto Rican Americans; recent immigrants vote differently than Chicano families who have been here for generations or centuries. To assume that this heterogeneous population is all in for Dems is incorrect.
3.) The cover-up of the autism epidemic is starting to bite Democrats in the ass. There are now at least 9 million single issue medical freedom voters who know that Dems are lying about vaccines. We provide the margin of victory in every federal election (because we are not aligned with any one party). Now with the total failure of coronavirus vaccines the number of medical freedom voters has grown by several million.
I grew up in a smal town on the Alaska Highway. Oil, Gas, Farming and Trucking are the way most make a living up there, and my brothers and my Dad have all been truckers at some point in their lives. My Dad owned his own trucking company for many years. I now live in the US, but my entire family remains in Canada. I have not been across the border in two years. When the “elites” like Trudeau and Biden ridicule, slander and arrogantly cast disparaging comments on hard working men and women, they directly insult my entire family. I have been praying that Trudeau would have his own “basket of deplorable’s” gaffe and the same spirit that caused the patriots to rise up here in the US would do the same in Canada. Justin’s “ small fringe” comment was absolutely gas lighting and debasing. The people in Canada are proud to be Canadian but have never taken themselves as seriously as people in the US do. Someone insults them like that, and normally they laugh it off. The only thing that stirs them up is hockey😉. I have been deeply saddened by the last two years as most I know have embraced these mandates or simply gone with the flow, acknowledging the ridiculousness of jab passports but not wanting to be like us crazy Americans, they don’t want to be seen as selfish and uncaring of others, running around screaming about their rights. They have gone along with it, Canadian’s don’t like to make a scene. I truly didn’t think I’d ever see anyone rise up. But, unlike many, I am not surprised when it happened, it came from the truckers. These men and women are loyal, tough, patriotic and work in some of the toughest conditions. Above all, they are truly caring of their neighbors, a band of brothers just as strong as any police, fire or military. They have more power too, because people like Trudeau who need their electric cars, sustainable, organic coffee and food and n95 masks, well, it’s a trucker who brings it to them. That small fringe group is over a million, a bounteous basket of deplorable’s, camped out on Trudeau doorstep, and I’m praying he isn’t able to turn this into an “insurrection”. May that laid back Canadian attitude coupled with the steel backbone of a trucker, cause Trudeau to bend and the whole thing end in typical Canadian fashion, a game of street hockey and all of the Canadian people getting their freedoms back, even the ones who say they haven’t lost any. May their eyes be opened.
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I have been so angry and frustrated lately, actually shouting horrible things about democrats and leftists in the safety of my home, and also because I got a "superflu" from someone who caught it from a group of mostly vaccinated people. This superflu is the result of the lockdowns. Your article helped bring back a semblance of sanity to my life, and also brought some tears of joy to my eyes. Normally, I am not this dramatic, but the past two weeks have been extremely harrowing. I'm a student at a university right now studying philosophy, and unfortunately it's a very liberal school, so I've been very afraid to post anything that goes against their "rules." I took a risk this week and posted my thoughts on our discussion board. I still don't know what to expect. Maybe I'll be expelled next week? I guess that's a risk I'll have to take. Observing your bravery makes me double down on my convictions. I feel so silenced! I feel violated! They are stealing my rights when I am not allowed to express myself!
Their fall can't come soon enough, Toby! Your Dems are our Liberals (with a hard shift to the left, they bear little resemblance to the party as it was less than 10 years ago). I nominate Trudope the Tyrant to leave office first, he has constantly used language that should have him arrested for hate speech. Since I have an aversion to injected poison, I am not allowed to travel and I was losing hope in Canada.
I really believe the truckers are doing the right thing at the right time. The past week has been an incredible eye-opener: to finally see so many people unite to reject having our rights stripped away. I went to support the truckers on Thursday and the atmosphere was wonderful: full of hope and unity. Will everything be fixed? Nah, of course not, but I will remain optimistic because I can't imagine giving up.
I’m 100% in agreement, and my formerly democrat-voting self has had the wool removed from my eyes over the course of the last two years. However, I’m disturbed that the GOP has not come together with a winning strategy other than “dems suck.” What are they going to DO about the cartel? What’s the plan? I know Ron Johnson is thought of as a nut job on capital hill, but why aren’t other Republicans giving voice to the brilliant scientists like he is and letting the American people know about the early treatments and fighting the censorship? (I LOVE Ron Johnson now by the way and if you are his fundraiser, please contact me as I want to support.) Rand Paul can target Fauci, but why isn’t he standing with Johnson? Where is the rest of the GOP to back these guys up? Why didn’t they come to the Defeat the Mandates rally? Where are the republicans on Energy and Commerce (which has oversight over FDA) to push FDA to look at these repurposed drugs? Buddy Carter is a pharmacist. He knows these repurposed drugs and the appropriateness for off-label use. I feel like the GOP is playing it WAY too safe here, for fear they will be blamed for the next wave, or associated with the “unclean” and all of the ugly labels given to them. Do they want to make an impact or play it safe to be re-elected? (Seems to me most fall into the latter category.) I need to see a comprehensive and aggressive strategy to fix this corruption, rather than just rhetoric complaining about it, and so far I have not seen one. And the politicians need to dig in and get some trucker-esk courage. I WANT to fundraise and vote for Republicans in November…but I don’t see them as shining stars here—yet.
Jan 30, 2022·edited Jan 30, 2022Liked by Toby Rogers
The first thing that strikes me is The fact that I would share this
On Twitter, but my account was suddenly suspended a few days ago
Simply bc i wrote that I realized I’d felt unwell since the many clusters of 5G towers
In my neighborhood were activated. Many people perhaps half if not a majority walking around here are wearing masks outside and still believe all the nonsense and many wait in line for COVID tests even as a bunch of testing companies get busted for fraud. The true believers may never see the light even as they suffer blood clots strokes heart attacks autoimmune disorders and the deaths of their children. But. It appears increasing numbers of people, even many Democrats have serious doubts about what they’ve been told and know something is wrong. I suspect there are many former Democrats like me running around. The GOP is also deeply corrupt, but that political party also has a problem. The rank and file aren’t going to be tracked shackled and controlled.
This is an excellent summary, Toby. While witnessing the Democratic party morph into the opposite of its once noble ideals, at least it can be understood as a corruption of power. But what about the many ordinary, non-powerful, and seemingly intelligent Ds who go along with this and do not see the 180 degree turn of their party? How can the "my body, my choice" advocates have no problem with experimental "vaccines'" being forced on the masses?
The majority of my Facebook friends are proud Democrats. I can barely stand to scroll through my feed filled with self-righteous posts in line with whatever their beloved team states is the truth of the day. I can no longer consider them my friends as their level of indoctrination is so deep and they are unreachable. I simply can't understand how these smart and educated continue to repeat utter nonsense that doesn't even match reality, much less the science they claim to follow. I don't know what it will take to get them to begin to think for themselves. I fear they could be convinced of nearly anything Big Pharma, Big Tech, or Big Government tell them to do.
I can't watch the videos of Canada's truckers without breaking into sobs of both joy and hope that they will succeed. And I hardly ever cry. It's almost too much for me. And bless you, Toby, for the most inspiring words I've seen in a long, long time. I read all the science, but it's not enough anymore. I need perspective, hope, and the benefit of others' ability to articulate wisdom. As for Canada, how long can the government hold on if they cannot meet? This is the key to their success. It's good that the power brokers have left Ottawa. They have proven themselves to be cowards of the first order.
All the bullet points add up to one word. Slavery.
Republicans are little different.
A possible solution: Reduce federal, state, county and city budgets by 90% across the board. Eliminate most departments completely. Remove their power.
The truckers are giving me hope! People complain that the marches do nothing to change the situation, but we have to keep showing up in numbers, and speaking out against the tyrannies that are being imposed upon us. Since last year I haven't been able to shake the feeling that England is a gas chamber but seeing the resistance grow, and with the truckers it is impossible to ignore that resistance, gives me hope.
I’m a Republican. I’m not a proud Republican. I’m more proud I’m not a Democrat.
Having said that I’m concerned that the Democrats have always been better cheaters and better politicians. They circle the wagons better than the Republicans ever could and they are much much better at misleading people because they just need a percentage of ignoramuses to flip elections.
My concern is that they are not acting like they are in real trouble. They own most of the media, they own most of the lobbyists, they own most of the ignorant people in this country, and they are not changing course or acting like they have the concern that they should.
They are censoring people at all levels and history tells us that the people doing the censoring in any country on this planet are never the good people. They have to know that with what they are doing that 2022 is not going to be a one time thing.
Therefore my concern is that they know something else is coming. Either the ability to keep this election close and steal other ones year after year or something else that will just punish people who are so tired right now.
The Democrats now work almost entirely for giant corporations and against the people. I was a lifelong dem going back to JFK, (my parents FDR)because they were “power to the people.” Now they are destroying public schools which have become defacto CDC centers(I am a public school teacher). They are hurting children with masks, experimental shots and remote school. They are firing the great working class nurses and medics and all health care workers. They are ruining the lives of so many minority people who often live in the large cities the democrats are destroying with policies that cause high crime and homelessness. They are letting big pharmaceutical make $86,000 dollars a minute from unsafe shots. They encourage unelected dictators from captured regulatory agencies such as CDC and FDA to dictate policy without going through pesky due process. They are losing many such as me, because I see that they do not really stand for the people or the environment; they just claim they do to get ahead.
You had me in complete agreement with everything you wrote, until you got to "It's all over but the shouting."
There is so much, so very much that must still happen. US Citizens have so little concept or personal ownership of all that citizenry entails, since civics as a class was removed from school curricula and civics as a value became lost over recent decades. That is, 'because there is someone else who will volunteer to be a pollwatcher, I don't have to; someone else will run for city council, or write letters to the mayor; someone else will call Sen Sinema and thank her for her courage, so I don't have to' is the default stance of the citizenry. We need to bring back civics and classroom discussion of the Bill of Rights and Federalist Papers, etc., Jefferson vs Adams debate re-enactment to high school in the curricula of the future, and a study of the COVID era as a time when all that Democratic republic "if you can keep it" heritage was gravely threatened.
To be clear, this is a left critique of the left. I'm sure someone could write something similar about the failures of the Republican Party. But the fact remains that Dems are running the federal government right now, and their theory of the case (leave it to the "experts") has been a catastrophic failure. I have many disagreements with Republicans. But it is Democrats who are rushing to set up Apartheid in the jurisdictions under their control.
I imagine the self-evident psychosis in the Democratic Party is the result of 3 factors:
1.) 50 years of neoliberal ideology;
2.) Far too many shots; and
3.) The largest propaganda campaign in history.
But *everyone* is dealing with those same factors and only Dems folded up like a bunch of cowards on day 1 of the pandemic.
The question remains though: how exactly did Democrats squander the demographic wave that was coming their way? I have a few thoughts, I imagine you'll be able to add others:
1.) Obama bailed out the banks but ignored homeowners after the 2008 global financial crash. Voters noticed.
2.) The claims by Judis & Teixeira were always overstated because they assume that Latinos vote as a block. They don't. Cuban Americans vote differently than Puerto Rican Americans; recent immigrants vote differently than Chicano families who have been here for generations or centuries. To assume that this heterogeneous population is all in for Dems is incorrect.
3.) The cover-up of the autism epidemic is starting to bite Democrats in the ass. There are now at least 9 million single issue medical freedom voters who know that Dems are lying about vaccines. We provide the margin of victory in every federal election (because we are not aligned with any one party). Now with the total failure of coronavirus vaccines the number of medical freedom voters has grown by several million.
What would you add?
I grew up in a smal town on the Alaska Highway. Oil, Gas, Farming and Trucking are the way most make a living up there, and my brothers and my Dad have all been truckers at some point in their lives. My Dad owned his own trucking company for many years. I now live in the US, but my entire family remains in Canada. I have not been across the border in two years. When the “elites” like Trudeau and Biden ridicule, slander and arrogantly cast disparaging comments on hard working men and women, they directly insult my entire family. I have been praying that Trudeau would have his own “basket of deplorable’s” gaffe and the same spirit that caused the patriots to rise up here in the US would do the same in Canada. Justin’s “ small fringe” comment was absolutely gas lighting and debasing. The people in Canada are proud to be Canadian but have never taken themselves as seriously as people in the US do. Someone insults them like that, and normally they laugh it off. The only thing that stirs them up is hockey😉. I have been deeply saddened by the last two years as most I know have embraced these mandates or simply gone with the flow, acknowledging the ridiculousness of jab passports but not wanting to be like us crazy Americans, they don’t want to be seen as selfish and uncaring of others, running around screaming about their rights. They have gone along with it, Canadian’s don’t like to make a scene. I truly didn’t think I’d ever see anyone rise up. But, unlike many, I am not surprised when it happened, it came from the truckers. These men and women are loyal, tough, patriotic and work in some of the toughest conditions. Above all, they are truly caring of their neighbors, a band of brothers just as strong as any police, fire or military. They have more power too, because people like Trudeau who need their electric cars, sustainable, organic coffee and food and n95 masks, well, it’s a trucker who brings it to them. That small fringe group is over a million, a bounteous basket of deplorable’s, camped out on Trudeau doorstep, and I’m praying he isn’t able to turn this into an “insurrection”. May that laid back Canadian attitude coupled with the steel backbone of a trucker, cause Trudeau to bend and the whole thing end in typical Canadian fashion, a game of street hockey and all of the Canadian people getting their freedoms back, even the ones who say they haven’t lost any. May their eyes be opened.
I have been so angry and frustrated lately, actually shouting horrible things about democrats and leftists in the safety of my home, and also because I got a "superflu" from someone who caught it from a group of mostly vaccinated people. This superflu is the result of the lockdowns. Your article helped bring back a semblance of sanity to my life, and also brought some tears of joy to my eyes. Normally, I am not this dramatic, but the past two weeks have been extremely harrowing. I'm a student at a university right now studying philosophy, and unfortunately it's a very liberal school, so I've been very afraid to post anything that goes against their "rules." I took a risk this week and posted my thoughts on our discussion board. I still don't know what to expect. Maybe I'll be expelled next week? I guess that's a risk I'll have to take. Observing your bravery makes me double down on my convictions. I feel so silenced! I feel violated! They are stealing my rights when I am not allowed to express myself!
Their fall can't come soon enough, Toby! Your Dems are our Liberals (with a hard shift to the left, they bear little resemblance to the party as it was less than 10 years ago). I nominate Trudope the Tyrant to leave office first, he has constantly used language that should have him arrested for hate speech. Since I have an aversion to injected poison, I am not allowed to travel and I was losing hope in Canada.
I really believe the truckers are doing the right thing at the right time. The past week has been an incredible eye-opener: to finally see so many people unite to reject having our rights stripped away. I went to support the truckers on Thursday and the atmosphere was wonderful: full of hope and unity. Will everything be fixed? Nah, of course not, but I will remain optimistic because I can't imagine giving up.
I’m 100% in agreement, and my formerly democrat-voting self has had the wool removed from my eyes over the course of the last two years. However, I’m disturbed that the GOP has not come together with a winning strategy other than “dems suck.” What are they going to DO about the cartel? What’s the plan? I know Ron Johnson is thought of as a nut job on capital hill, but why aren’t other Republicans giving voice to the brilliant scientists like he is and letting the American people know about the early treatments and fighting the censorship? (I LOVE Ron Johnson now by the way and if you are his fundraiser, please contact me as I want to support.) Rand Paul can target Fauci, but why isn’t he standing with Johnson? Where is the rest of the GOP to back these guys up? Why didn’t they come to the Defeat the Mandates rally? Where are the republicans on Energy and Commerce (which has oversight over FDA) to push FDA to look at these repurposed drugs? Buddy Carter is a pharmacist. He knows these repurposed drugs and the appropriateness for off-label use. I feel like the GOP is playing it WAY too safe here, for fear they will be blamed for the next wave, or associated with the “unclean” and all of the ugly labels given to them. Do they want to make an impact or play it safe to be re-elected? (Seems to me most fall into the latter category.) I need to see a comprehensive and aggressive strategy to fix this corruption, rather than just rhetoric complaining about it, and so far I have not seen one. And the politicians need to dig in and get some trucker-esk courage. I WANT to fundraise and vote for Republicans in November…but I don’t see them as shining stars here—yet.
The first thing that strikes me is The fact that I would share this
On Twitter, but my account was suddenly suspended a few days ago
Simply bc i wrote that I realized I’d felt unwell since the many clusters of 5G towers
In my neighborhood were activated. Many people perhaps half if not a majority walking around here are wearing masks outside and still believe all the nonsense and many wait in line for COVID tests even as a bunch of testing companies get busted for fraud. The true believers may never see the light even as they suffer blood clots strokes heart attacks autoimmune disorders and the deaths of their children. But. It appears increasing numbers of people, even many Democrats have serious doubts about what they’ve been told and know something is wrong. I suspect there are many former Democrats like me running around. The GOP is also deeply corrupt, but that political party also has a problem. The rank and file aren’t going to be tracked shackled and controlled.
This is an excellent summary, Toby. While witnessing the Democratic party morph into the opposite of its once noble ideals, at least it can be understood as a corruption of power. But what about the many ordinary, non-powerful, and seemingly intelligent Ds who go along with this and do not see the 180 degree turn of their party? How can the "my body, my choice" advocates have no problem with experimental "vaccines'" being forced on the masses?
The majority of my Facebook friends are proud Democrats. I can barely stand to scroll through my feed filled with self-righteous posts in line with whatever their beloved team states is the truth of the day. I can no longer consider them my friends as their level of indoctrination is so deep and they are unreachable. I simply can't understand how these smart and educated continue to repeat utter nonsense that doesn't even match reality, much less the science they claim to follow. I don't know what it will take to get them to begin to think for themselves. I fear they could be convinced of nearly anything Big Pharma, Big Tech, or Big Government tell them to do.
I can't watch the videos of Canada's truckers without breaking into sobs of both joy and hope that they will succeed. And I hardly ever cry. It's almost too much for me. And bless you, Toby, for the most inspiring words I've seen in a long, long time. I read all the science, but it's not enough anymore. I need perspective, hope, and the benefit of others' ability to articulate wisdom. As for Canada, how long can the government hold on if they cannot meet? This is the key to their success. It's good that the power brokers have left Ottawa. They have proven themselves to be cowards of the first order.
Excellent summation of the abysmal failure of the Bougiecrats and the triumphant rise of the freedom movement!
I would like to point everyone to this inspiring letter from a Canadian posted by Heather Heying:
https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-cavalry-rolled-in
Well written.
All the bullet points add up to one word. Slavery.
Republicans are little different.
A possible solution: Reduce federal, state, county and city budgets by 90% across the board. Eliminate most departments completely. Remove their power.
The truckers are giving me hope! People complain that the marches do nothing to change the situation, but we have to keep showing up in numbers, and speaking out against the tyrannies that are being imposed upon us. Since last year I haven't been able to shake the feeling that England is a gas chamber but seeing the resistance grow, and with the truckers it is impossible to ignore that resistance, gives me hope.
I’m a Republican. I’m not a proud Republican. I’m more proud I’m not a Democrat.
Having said that I’m concerned that the Democrats have always been better cheaters and better politicians. They circle the wagons better than the Republicans ever could and they are much much better at misleading people because they just need a percentage of ignoramuses to flip elections.
My concern is that they are not acting like they are in real trouble. They own most of the media, they own most of the lobbyists, they own most of the ignorant people in this country, and they are not changing course or acting like they have the concern that they should.
They are censoring people at all levels and history tells us that the people doing the censoring in any country on this planet are never the good people. They have to know that with what they are doing that 2022 is not going to be a one time thing.
Therefore my concern is that they know something else is coming. Either the ability to keep this election close and steal other ones year after year or something else that will just punish people who are so tired right now.
The Democrats now work almost entirely for giant corporations and against the people. I was a lifelong dem going back to JFK, (my parents FDR)because they were “power to the people.” Now they are destroying public schools which have become defacto CDC centers(I am a public school teacher). They are hurting children with masks, experimental shots and remote school. They are firing the great working class nurses and medics and all health care workers. They are ruining the lives of so many minority people who often live in the large cities the democrats are destroying with policies that cause high crime and homelessness. They are letting big pharmaceutical make $86,000 dollars a minute from unsafe shots. They encourage unelected dictators from captured regulatory agencies such as CDC and FDA to dictate policy without going through pesky due process. They are losing many such as me, because I see that they do not really stand for the people or the environment; they just claim they do to get ahead.
You had me in complete agreement with everything you wrote, until you got to "It's all over but the shouting."
There is so much, so very much that must still happen. US Citizens have so little concept or personal ownership of all that citizenry entails, since civics as a class was removed from school curricula and civics as a value became lost over recent decades. That is, 'because there is someone else who will volunteer to be a pollwatcher, I don't have to; someone else will run for city council, or write letters to the mayor; someone else will call Sen Sinema and thank her for her courage, so I don't have to' is the default stance of the citizenry. We need to bring back civics and classroom discussion of the Bill of Rights and Federalist Papers, etc., Jefferson vs Adams debate re-enactment to high school in the curricula of the future, and a study of the COVID era as a time when all that Democratic republic "if you can keep it" heritage was gravely threatened.