As we watch Canadian truck drivers shut down fully 25% of cross-border trade because they oppose vax mandates, and as we watch the rumblings of a possible similar action here in the United States, we see the long-expected result of the “elite” attempt to bring about a “New World Order.”
But to do this requires the destruction of the existing social and economic system. We also see that those who want a “New World Order” have nothing to offer as a replacement.
That is their Achille’s heel. Their “elephant in the room”. Their monkey wrench.
They have no way to address the “inequities” that they see in American society except to destroy it and replace it with an undefined “system” that even they cannot describe.
For decades we have heard the elites in academia talk about socialism being “the answer” to all of society’s ills (they won’t say “communism” because it reminds too many of the Soviet system of bread lines, poverty, and alcoholism). They keep proposing that we should “eat the rich”, distribute a “living wage” to the poor, and use “equity” to revamp the justice system. They write books attempting to rewrite American history in terms that make anybody “not them” into the reason for all of America’s ills (“1619 Project”, anyone?)
All of their solutions are based on “the common good” as if there was one dictionary definition that they could point to. One place where we could find a globally agreed-upon set of standards that everyone would be satisfied with. One way that “equity” could be defined for all: rich and poor alike.
In all of this rich-vs-poor and us-vs-them talk, nobody ever discusses the needs of the middle class. The elites don’t want to acknowledge that middle-class workers cannot be distinguished by race or religion or by where they live. They are the “silent majority”.
A major part of this “middle class” is .. truck drivers. These hard-working individuals spend days away from home, hauling everything from potatoes to paint, from coffee to car parts, from eggs to electric transformers. They bring products from ports and factories to local warehouses, and then to stores or local manufacturers. Some own their own trucks, some rent or lease, and some are paid as contractors to drive the equipment belonging to others.
State and federal regulations have been put in place that has made some necessary improvements in safety (reduction in long hours to prevent exhaustion, vehicle inspections to prevent excessive weight, etc). However, some of these state and federal regulations have unnecessarily caused significant reductions in the number and availability of trucks to move cargo (CA’s rules regarding empty container transportation, the prohibition on independent contractor drivers, and many more).
There is an unbreakable relationship between truck drivers and the economy: if they stop driving, the economy literally comes to a stop.
But as they say, Covid changed everything.
Perhaps the biggest recent impact to the trucking industry was the state and federal mandates that truck drivers receive a Covid “vaccine.”* People sitting by themselves for extremely long periods of time were coerced into receiving an injection for a disease that was supposedly transmitted from person to person (remember “wash your packages”?). In an attempt to prevent transmission and retransmission of that disease between individuals who rarely made contact with each other, the government-mandated a “vaccine” to “help” (yes, sarcasm) truck drivers continue to work.
Truck drivers may not have as many postgraduate degrees as the elites in academia or government, but they certainly aren’t “dumb”. They know they can’t drive if they are sick, so most try to prevent getting sick. They know that the hours they spend alone in their truck cabs is time they are isolated from others, and they know that isolating themselves from Covid-positive individuals is sensible. And they also know that someone’s life will be negatively affected if they don’t deliver their load on time.
So when the word came that all truck drivers who crossed the US/Canada border would have to be vaccinated, the truck drivers resisted. Then the Canadian government insisted that unvaccinated drivers would be forbidden to enter Canada. Finally, when the truck drivers were smeared with ad hominem insults, false accusations, and outright lies by the Canadian government — the truck drivers decided to become “teachers”. They decided to show their value to the Canadian government – and to Trudeau.
They stopped driving. More than that, they stopped driving on the same routes they use for trade. They all stopped. Thousands of trucks. In the middle of the road. Effectively shutting down all trade.
The result has been unexpected. The Canadian public has been in almost complete support of the truck drivers. It seems that the Canadian public is also tired of the vaccine mandates and the government’s ham-handed Covid rules. The Canadian government was caught by surprise: they thought that a shutdown in trade would make the truckers look like obstructionists. Instead, the truck drivers became heroes.
Someone finally stood up to the tyrants running the Canadian government. Someone that the Canadian government couldn’t control. Tens of thousands of them. Middle-class working someones. Someones the economy can’t survive without. Someones the Canadian government can’t force to do their jobs, either with threats of imprisonment or at the point of a gun (Ontario has refused to use the military to end the strike).
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), an arm of the Canadian government, has been in full-throated support of Trudeau’s refusal to back down. Trudeau said he won’t drop the vaccine mandate. There has been little if any violence by the truck drivers. Almost everyone is flying a Canadian flag (there were a couple of outliers, but they could be counted on one hand and were shouted down by everyone else).
As of Friday morning (2/11), Trudeau has not changed his tune. But several Canadian provinces are on the cusp of changing or dropping their mandates – and Canadians are cheering for it.
So much for the “New World Order”, which came face to face with ordinary middle-class workers – in this case, truck drivers – and found out that all of their “echo chamber” declarations about equity and socialism fall flat without dedicated followers.
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Meanwhile, the Biden administration is carefully watching what’s happening in Canada. They know that a huge proportion of Americans oppose the vaccine and mask mandates and, given the opportunity, would also go on strike to force the government’s hand.
There are rumors that an American anti-mandate truck convoy is being planned, from LA to DC. If that convoy gets off the ground… heaven help the US.
(I put it “vaccine” in quotes because these “vaccines” neither prevent nor reduce the incidence of infection for post-Alpha Covid. If you can simultaneously be multiply vaccinated and have multiple Covid infections, simple logic tells you that the immunization does not work as it should. Changing the definition of “immunization” doesn’t change what a vaccine should do.
