Canada: Laboratory for Democratic Socialism

If America’s states are the laboratories for democracy, the places where we try out different policies to see what works, then Canada must stand today as a laboratory for democratic socialism. You know, the kind that Bernie Sanders and his legions of sans-culottes want to impose on our nation. 

Such is the conclusion I draw from David Solway’s grim assessment of the current state of Justin Trudeau’s Canada. The American media has barely uttered the least word about what is happening to our North. The only reasonable reason must be that Canada is a laboratory for the democratic socialism that media elites were loving… at least until it looked as though Bernie Sanders would become the Democratic presidential nominee.

Anyway, here are a couple of paragraphs from Solway’s article:

Canada is presently in the throes of social and political disintegration. A left-leaning electorate has once again empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic ideological shibboleths of the day: global warming or “climate change,” radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary government, environmental strangulation of energy production, and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation. Industry and manufacturing are abandoning the country in droves and heading south.

Canada is now reaping the whirlwind. The Red-Green Axis consisting of social justice warriors, hereditary band chiefs, renewable energy cronies, cultural Marxists, and their political and media enablers have effectively shut down the country. The economy is at a standstill, legislatures and City Halls have been barricaded, blockades dot the landscape, roads and bridges have been sabotaged, trains have been derailed (three crude-by-rail spillages in the last two months), goods are rotting in warehouses, heating supplies remain undelivered, violent protests and demonstrations continue to wreak havoc—and the hapless Prime Minister, who spent a weak swanning around Africa as the crisis unfolded, is clearly out of his depth and has no idea how to control the mayhem. No surprise here. A wock pupper politico in thrall to the Marxist project and corporate financial interests, Justin Trudeau is generally baffed out when it comes to any serious or demanding concerns involving the welfare of the people and the economic vitality of the nation. Little is to be expected of him in the current emergency apart from boilerplate clichés and vague exhalations of roseate sentiment.

A sobering thought for today.