The Sad, Empty Lives of Radical Activists

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Feb 20


Working without a copy editor is like walking the high-wire without a net.  One slip, and you’re derbris.

It’s the conversion of high potential energy into high kinetic energy that creates the problem.  In Canada, we have high potential energy for protests.  The cause doesn’t matter.  A powerful undercurrent of Marxism-Anarchism-Nihilism courses through the Canadian body politic as a consequence of the current love affair with progressivism.  MAN activists live empty lives with little to do, and MAN combined with some cause or other gives them purpose and kinetic activity.  The expression “the usual suspects” applies particularly well to this collection of sad people.

Yesterday, Justin Trudeau accused Andrew Scheer of likening the minority of Wetsuwet’en hereditary chiefs to radical activists, as if radical activism were a bad thing - to Liberals, and to Justin personally.  Consistency forms no part of Justin’s argument.  Ironically, the next day the Slatpork & Rind ran an opinion piece slugged, “Conservatives will be judged by the company they keep.”  What’s sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander in humorless progressive-land.

Another laughable piece was one slugged, “We don’t need net zero we need real zero.”  The author obviously has no idea how food gets to his supermarket, how homes get heated in winter, nor the potential for hydro-electric generation in the flatlands of Saskatchewan.

Meanwhile, the Mohawks are going to continue stirring up trouble for fun and profit.  A stop won’t be put to the disruption until the fun and profit are taken away.  The LNG pipeline is going to be built through Wetsuwet’en land to the Pacific coast by 2025 no matter how disrupted CN Rail traffic gets three thousand miles away near Belleville, Ontario.  The Mohawks are protesting the emptiness of their lives, and this or that Aboriginal cause is only their cover story that hides the real reason from themselves.

The restlessness of the MAN undercurrent needs to be better controlled.  This is why order needs to be restored quickly, before average people start adopting the tactics themselves against the activists who are victimizing them.  Cracking down on activism is hard for Justin because activists are his people.  No enemies on the Left, remember?  That’s how MAN eats up progressivism.

By failing to maintain public order first and quickly, and failing to discipline his natural followers, Justin is teaching Canada the wrong lessons.
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