This is really extremely dangerous. Many in this embedded thread make light of Kenney’s comments, but I’m attempting to advise readers to not fall into this trap.
Readers will look at Kenney’s rhetoric and laugh, thinking, “what an idiot” and”why can’t he face facts?” But he’s not talking to mainstream Canada.
He speaking directly to his supporters across Canada:
White supremacists
Libertarian Ideological purists
Dominionists
Q’Anon
He doesn’t care what you or I believe. He only cares what those four closed groups of people believe.
If they believe him & the cacophony of cons singing the same crazy tune, Canada has a problem. They will believe him.
Canada is at much risk of violence as US is right now.
If you examine the membership of the four groups referred to above, that is the conservative voter base.
White supremicists/nationalists are convinced of their own superiority and crossover with all other voter base groups. Militant, angry, sanctimonious and emboldened.
Red Deer is a preview of what this group’s capabilities are in Canada. Thank god open carry isn’t an issue in Canada. But there are those who will push that limit or use other deadly weapons instead.
This group of individuals are thugs. Proud Boys, Sons of Odin, 3%ers. Gangs of thugs who believe they have the human right and tacit approval of law enforcement and conservative politicians & authorities to impose their belief system using intimidation and violence.
We saw in the Red Deer video that some police officers are ideologically aligned with this group of thugs. If you believe this is only happening in Alberta, you’re delusional. It’s this overt in Alberta, but it’s happening nationally.
A smaller but no less ideologically pure group are the far right libertarian purists. These are the young men that are popping up everywhere on Social media quoting Mises, Hayek, Buchanan. Austrian economics, free markets, laissez faire, Ayn Rand, Voluntaryism.
Yes they are a smaller group, but they are extremely dangerous demagogues. Disaster capitalism, anarcho-capitalism, complete deregulation, removal of all publicly funded social supports, and they believe taxes are government sanctioned theft.
Kenney is speaking their language. Unfettered development, zero regulations, removal of human rights & freedoms. These are the imperialists and pure colonizers who demand assimilation and reject anything that isn’t individualistic. Business schools are pumping them out in droves.
Anything that gets in their way to make a profit is to be destroyed. Anyone who dissents is a socialist or communist. No exceptions.
It’s people with this mindset that conducted the Chilean coup in 1973. Heartless, callous, consequentialist, elitist. Brutal & not above violence.
Dominionists.
Dominionism is a political movement, not a religion.
There are three distinct groups within the Dominionist movement. The architects, the shepherds and sheep.
Sheep are the masses of devoted Christian faithful who accept the bible as the actual word of god.
They have been programmed (indoctrinated) to not think for themselves. Everything they need to know is in the bible and dissent is blasphemy. Just follow orders and support the common cause. Questions are challenge to god’s authority and grounds for excommunication.
Obedience is common amongst these parishioners. Anti choice, anti homosexual, anti trans, anti feminist, anti science, anti climate change, anti government. Pro “patriotism,” closed society, segregationist, patriarchical, traditional. Not a critical thought to be found.
The shepherds are the church pastors and political & organizational activists. They preach/educate/legislate the Dominionist interpretation of their dogma marrying political activism with devout Christian extremism. But they aren’t the designers of the movement.
Designers are the architects. Those who have considerable wealth and power direct this political movement in secrecy. Corporate oligarchs, political elite (Harper, Putin), wealthy religious leaders.
They shape the movement to achieve the ultimate goal: political, economic & social control of society to bring about the Kingdom of Heaven.
Some of them are End Times believers. SOS Mike Pompeo (Protestant), US AG Bill Barr (Catholic), Trump’s Christian brigade leaders.
That’s who is behind Dominionism. Also known as The Family.
These are megalomaniacal narcissists who want totalitarian control of civilization and to impose a theocratic kleptocracy, like Putin has in Russia.
And finally, Q’Anon.
Q is a cult. The other three groups are cults too, but not like this cult. This cult is all based in social media and electronic control and influence. This is the cult based on military grade psyops. Mind control.
Cambridge Analytica’s parent corporation is SCL. They’ve been in the business of creating psychological profiles 30 years. It’s well known the UK and US used SCL tactics to influence developing nations.
Since 2015, it’s apparently being used on Western democracies as well.
There is a Canadian connection. You’re thinking AIQ. Or maybe Emerdata?
Yes, AIQ was involved with Cambridge Analytica and Brexit. Emerdata bought up what remained of Cambridge Analytica.
These companies remain a threat to democracy. Emerdata is not alone in this market.
But that’s not what I’m referring to.
In October 2018, I found this video. Watch it please.
Conservatives are using this technology to influence elections. And have been since at least 2017, when this video was produced.
This is how conservatives maintain their voter base. Continually feeding them disinformation and creating an alternate reality in a protective bubble.
That’s who Kenney is speaking to directly when he spews his lunatic rhetoric. Those on the outside of the bubble laugh.
Those on the inside of the bubble take him seriously. Kenney is a Canada’s Trump. He has the “cult of personality” and leads this movement from Alberta.
If you hear what he’s saying, he’s telling those in the bubble that Liberals are ruining their future. Destroying Alberta.
He’s telling them Trudeau is a threat to their existence. That gives them motivation and justification to behave like the attempted assassin of PMJT this summer. That’s Q’Anon. That’s who Kenney is speaking to.
This is no joke. Kenney is calling for insurrection, a coup.
@patriciaorpat @PeterHRatcliffe Canadian legal documents are not like American indictments.
Different systems. Typically, reporters & investigative journalists tell the story in Canada, while in the US, allegations are specifically listed in the indictment.
@patriciaorpat @PeterHRatcliffe Investigative journalism has been effectively shut down in Canada.
But even before that was completely in place, details of criminal charges have been kept quiet when charges are dropped or criminals plead guilty to lesser charges.
@patriciaorpat @PeterHRatcliffe For example, SNC-Lavelin corruption details are a mystery because so many of the accused pleaded guilty to lesser charges and the extent of the crime is now closed for public scrutiny.
Interesting to note, the details would have been made public had SNC-Lavelin signed a DPA.
I’m getting really tired of pundits calling for PMJT to step down.
Now that we KNOW it has been Russia poisoning the well and maligning PMJT’s character with fake accusations, conspiracy theories & outright lies, Canadians expect better from pundits, journalists and politicos!
The minister assessed the situation and called it a fundamental impasse.
There is no middle ground. The demands by both parties are so disparate, a stalemate was declared by the minister since the impact of the inability to move forward in negotiations impacts all Canadians.
Note that the minister is invoking his legitimate codified authority to secure peace and impose short term and long term solutions. Those solutions will be in the national interest of all Canadians.
Meaning the govt will not be siding with one party or another.