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Many of the key organizers are racist, anti immigration, and far right. I’m from the west coast in a hippy town, and it amazes me how many people I know are getting behind this. I get people being upset or disagreeing with vaccine mandates, but allying yourself with racists is lending them your own voice, and trying to act like that is justified is hard for me to understand.
truth. not saying deadheads and hippies are the fastest on the uptake, but I've spent a better part of my adult life in the grateful dead related scene, lots of yoga too, and I've been really, really bummed out to see so many people falling in with the far right.
when looking at the trajectory of growing fascist movements in European history after WWI, there was a lot of support from youth movements and fringes of the more radical left (while of course being funded by the industrialists, capitalists, and power brokers). Sometimes folks want change so bad and feel so disenfranchised that they can't see everything that comes with that particular form of change. I see a lot of that happening lately
This sounds pretty on point to me. People here keep saying “it’s not about the politics”, but the rhetoric and people involved are highly political and it’s hard not to see it.
There is apparently also a blockade in Alberta preventing access by vehicle to a border crossing. Truckers preventing other truckers from working in a real solidarity move.
I think there's a lot of folks who don't see that EVERYTHING is political, especially at this point in time. Looking at history, and again, I'm keyed up as I'm reading a book on the origins of fascism after WWI right now, in their individual or group pursuit of safety (based on real or subjective threats), resource acquisition (homes, food, $, work,), individuals and individual groups often become unwitting foot soldiers for groups who most certainly have other interests.
I mean, there has been a massive and seemingly instant transfer of wealth that's taken place in the past 2 or so years. That's undebatable, right? And in line with free and global trade initiatives, first in Canada and more recently the US,
homes have become a sort of untraceable and simultaneously tradable asset for the wealthy, stock markets, and international investment groups. Throw in the untaxed or minimally taxed wealth/property/asset transfer from the so-called Boomer generation to their kids that's happening right now and see that families who were already well off are growing in wealth. Here's an interesting piece, right, because the recipients of generational wealth are fighting tooth and nail to avoid paying taxes on it, thus pushing them to align with the far-right and the classes or groups without assets period are also pissed, but are manipulated to be pissed at something rather irrelevant like vaccine mandates or immigration, thus leading them increasingly to align with far-right groups.
I don't know. I don't know nothin