Snatched: How Radicals Have Contrived News To Undermine Polite Society

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” —Winston Churchill, October 1945.

Noted British author H.G. Wells— he of War of the Worlds, The Time Machine— was an early proponent of ending capitalism. Like many in the arts community he saw a bright new day with socialists like him redistributing the world’s assets. Writing in 1900 he vowed, “I am going to write, talk and preach revolution for the next five years.”

Wells’ efforts fell short of revolution (except in his sex life), but his fellow travellers did eventually start the British Labour Party. By 1946, they achieved family allowance and other welfare-state benefits, but it was a far cry from the end of the monarchy/ no private property that Wells and fellow Fabian Bernard Shaw envisioned at the turn of that century. 

They have company in the Failed Revolution! business. Since Marx penned his Das Kapital screed against the ruling classes in 1867, many have tried to implement “from each according to his ability to those according to his needs”. The cruel renunciation of this notion is the great tragedy of the 20th century, causing hundreds of millions of deaths in Russia, China, the Soviet Bloc, Cambodia, India and more as its promoters lapsed into fascism.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, communism seemed dead and buried. Frontal assaults on capitalism were futile. Merit and free enterprise had won over the grey poison of the KGB and the Stasi. But Wells’ deluded successors in the redistribution business are made of stern stuff. With so many of their compatriots splattered against the ramparts across the world a new strategic approach was adopted.

The dilemma for radicals like Bill Ayres and Saul Alinsky was how to upend the capitalist system when everyone knows the alternative is worse. Much worse. Churchill let the cat out of the bag. “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government, except all those other forms that have been tried.”

The answer? Not one but a  series of smaller diversionary attacks that would exhaust capitalism piecemeal, leaving radicals to sweep into power and finally— FINALLY—give coercive socialism a fair shot at ruining the planet for good. Alinsky wrote the process. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”

And so we see the eager promotion of climate confusion, diversity, gender dysphoria, unlimited immigration, media hoaxes, DEI, AI and countless smaller projects under the auspices of Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault. On their own none of these issues is enough to breach the walls of capitalism. But as a never-ending cascade of targeted miseries for the middle class? 

Their cumulative effect might discourage and dishearten those who benefit from capitalism. Given enough time these psy-ops could drive people from participating in their own lives. Voting will be rendered worthless. Allowing for, yes, an Orwellian-style surrender to social tyranny. Despite George Orwell’s warnings in Animal Farm, the pigs are busy installing themselves in vast, omnipotent bureaucracies, enriching their friends while exhausting the natives with endless social-justice crusades.

Here’s comedian-turned-social-critic Russell Brand to Tucker Carlson: “It seems to me that we are in a time where we lurch from one crisis to another, that the crisis is always used to legitimize certain solutions, and a docile or terrified public is willing to participate in this. Proposed solutions that usually involve giving up their freedom.

“We are continually being invited to give up our freedom in exchange for safety or convenience. And it seems that this process is radically escalating. And I feel that this is something that we will see yet more of in the coming year.”

Witness the current stories on the state removing parents from decisions about their children’s gender. (Alberta has moved to prevent underage conversion surgery.) When Hillary Clinton was bloviating about needing a village to raise a child she was echoing social-work pioneer Ellen Richards: “'In the social republic, the child as a future citizen is an asset of the state, not the property of its parents. Hence its welfare is a direct concern of the state.” Who had better march in the proscribed parade or suffer excommunication.

This might provoke pushback from capitalists trying to retain their heritage. That push might even turn violent. (Joe Biden has already ramped up the Trump-as-Hitler meme.) But a real violent reaction— not the sham Jan. 6 eruption—  will only strengthen the hand of those who, in the words of Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer, “have six ways to Sunday to get back at you”.

To see how that works consult the Freedom Convoy. The forces of totalitarian control co-opted the Canadian government, police, military and state media to their purpose. As Convoy leader Tamara Lich has observed of Trudeau’s stripping of people’s financial rights under 2022’s now-discredited Emergency Measures Act, “(he) knew over 100,000 Canadians donated (to the Convoy) and that’s who they were targeting. Freezing bank accounts of political opponents!”

Even with courts chastizing Trudeau, he’s unrepentant, playing for time and tide. Trying to provoke what happened in Newfoundland in 1934 when scandal-exhausted natives— then British citizens— gave up on democracy to allow a six-man unelected board to handle things. James McLeod explains how well that worked out. ttps://www.readtheline.ca/p/james-mcleod-a-lesson-from-newfoundlands?publication_id=70032&post_id=141167151&isFreemail=false&r=1c50vh

Chaos is their byword. With over half the population sleepwalking already (a plurality of Canadians still support the enactment of the 2022 Emergencies Act against the 'Freedom Convoy' protests)  they’re closer than ever to their goal. For “speaking his truth”, Brand is now being viciously hounded by the Left as an apostate. But in these times that might be the best indication you are closing in on the target. 

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.