When Only Your Worst Enemies Will Tell You: You're Done

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.— Mark Twain

Depending on which media silo you call home, you may not know that a certain segment of the population think social segregation is needed for people who decline the experimental Covid drugs currently flowing into the shoulders of petrified citizens.

In case you missed it, here’s radical author Noam Chomsky replying to @MaxBlumenthal “Noam Chomsky doubles down on his previous call for the state to segregate The Unvaccinated from society: "How can we get food to them? Well, that's actually their problem… they should have the decency to remove themselves from the community.”

So, despite an expensive liberal education that stressed liberty and civil rights, the culture zealots are now ready to ship off healthcare workers who were heroes in 2020 but are now carrying the yellow star of unvaxxed.  

They must be brought in line. But how? The vax boosters have recognized that the white educated classes are very keen to be part of the In Crowd. Put simply, they hate being left out and like the comfort of numbers— especially if the drum major of the parade is Barack Obama or Justin Trudeau. And the bad guy is Donald Trump.

If this all seems a little preposterous you haven’t been paying attention. If Woke virtue were a stock it would be running neck-and-neck with Tesla (currently valued at $1 T.) And virtue logic says that you, the unvaxxed, must protect me, the pious, by taking needles like a junkie when told to do so by Joe Biden, who can’t remember Long Beach, Ca., is where all the container ships are.

The merits of vax or no-vax have been argued in this space before. Not so much in the puppy mill of the Media Party, however. Plummeting deaths and infection rates do not faze those checking out railway schedules for their neighbours. So we’ll forgo that fruitless exercise for now.

What is different, however, is the emergence of voices— on the progressive left and elsewhere—who are noticing that perhaps the whole thing has gone too far, too fast. Barack Obama warns while change can't come soon enough for some Americans, for others it might be scary". "You end up having, on the one hand, change happening very rapidly, too rapidly for a big portion of the population," Obama said during a "CBS Mornings" interview. Ya’ think? 

Late-night liberal icon Jon Stewart, too, has lately been pushing back, first smacking down his pupil Stephen Colbert over his dismissal of the Wuhan lab accident.

While that was festering he then visited CNN deity Jake Tapper, who was in the mood for a little #orangemanbad bashing. To Tapper’s alarm Stewart told Tapper, whose network has been obsessed with Trump since 2015, that all this Trump noise is counterproductive to healing the nation’s soul. Watch as English comedian/ satirist Russell Brand does play-by-play on Tapper’s dismay.

HBO stalwart Bill Maher has likewise been unsparing with fellow lefties on his show. Sample: Maher describes the symptoms of progressaphobia. “Young people are unable to see that ‘your dorm in 2021 is better than the South before the Civil War.’

But the least likely source of reductive criticism lately is none other than Russian president Vladimir Putin, who— it must be noted— has killed people he doesn’t like. Speaking at the Valdai International Discussion Club’s “Global Shake-up in the 21st Century” Vlad sadly noted that Woke America was headed to a place Russia knew well.

“This is something we saw in Russia. It happened in our country before the 1917 revolution; the Bolsheviks followed the dogmas of Marx and Engels. And they also declared that they would go in to change the traditional lifestyle, the political, the economic lifestyle, as well as the very notion of morality, the basic principles for a healthy society.

They were trying to destroy age and century-long values, revisiting the relationship between the people. They were encouraging informing on one’s own beloved and families. It was hailed as the march of progress. And it was very popular across the world, and it was supported by many, as we see, it is happening right now.

It is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia used to have and that we left behind in distant path. The fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity, when great authors of the past such as Shakespeare are no longer taught in schools and universities, because they announced as backward classics that did not understand the importance of gender or race.”

Then this on free speech: "“Incidentally, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of other opinions, different from their own. I think this should remind you of something that is happening… (in) the 1920s, the Soviet couture Tagore came up with the so called ‘Newspeak’, and they thought that thereby they were building a new consciousness and coming up with new values, and they went so far that we feel the consequences up until now. 

“There are some monstrous things when from a very young age, you teach to children that the boy can easily become a girl and you impose on them this selection, this choice. You push the parents aside and make the child take this decisions that can destroy their lives… all of that under the banner of progress, while some people just want to do that.”

You go, Vlad. There is some grassroots pushback to uncontrolled Wokeism, tweets blogger Christina Pshaw: “One of the reasons (Florida) Governor (Ron) DeSantis is so popular is he knows what time it is. He understands the need to directly challenge false or misleading media narratives, and he does not hesitate to do that whenever it’s warranted.”

Despite the concerns of Obama and others, the virtue seekers of the U.S. and Canada seem complacent in the face of such caution. As conservative critic Mark Steyn observes of U.S. decline— and that of Canada, too. "The good news is that we're unlikely to get another decade of complacency, because, absent any serious pushback, we're transitioning from the 'gradually' to the 'suddenly' phase.”

Hope everyone enjoys the ride into the 21st century version of Decline of the Hapsburg Empire.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster. His 2020 book Personal Account with Tony Comper is nominated for the BBN Business Book of the Year in Canada. His new book with his son Evan is called InExact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx