Trying to fix stupid

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Feb 22

RE: Emergencies Act gone, big questions loom.  Hamilton Spectator editorial, 28 Feb 22.

It is said that you can’t fix stupid, which raises the question of why write in criticism of editorials in the Hamilton Spectator?  The triumph of hope over experience, I guess.

Over the course of the Trucker for Freedom protest, the word never uttered was “compromise.”  It occurred to no one important that the trucker’s protest could have ended quickly and without resort to the Emergencies Act by redressing their grievance.  That would have involved compromise.  It would have involved Prime Minister Trudeau saying that the government could tackle this one aspect of the COVID spread problem in some other way.  But no.  It had to become a test of wills.  Trudeau couldn’t even have made a show of meeting a delegation.  Prime Minister Blackface had to demonize and belittle working class people whose grimy lives he was making unnecessarily tougher with unscientific regulation.  And the NDP went along with it.

The woke crowd and those with otherwise empty lives distain Neanderthals.  But Neanderthals have feelings too.  They feel pain.  They have human needs.  And they have human rights.  (They also have larger brain cases, but that’s for another time.)

Two weeks after the declaration of the Emergencies Act, the technical basis on which Trudeau’s ‘vaccinate or face fourteen days of quarantine upon re-entering Canada regardless of test results’ policy and order was supposed to work has disappeared.  Alberta no longer supports the QR code system.  Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec are soon to follow.  So, if you can no longer check vaccination status, other than a test of wills, what did Trudeau win?

It’s funny, but that now that people subject to the class distain of the latte-sippers are destroyed, are questions raised about the future use of the Emergencies Act (which isn’t “gone” it’s only in abeyance until the next “emergency").  The latte-sippers are becoming alive to what they cheered the unleashing of.  They cheered the proclamation of the Emergencies Act because it was unleased upon people they despise.  But there doesn’t seem to be a principled reason not to use it, to withhold its use, against causes the latte-sippers happen to believe in.

Maybe the latte-sippers aren’t as smart as they think they are.  Because even they know: What goes around comes around!

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