Thread by @sunnshiiny

Since Christian Nationalists in the US seem to be leading this movement, here is what to expect from Canadian xenophobic Christian Nationals.

This isn’t a joke or hyperbole. This is what they want. To make Manifest Destiny real.

You can see why treaties would be a nuisance.

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1383106255930155008

How many Canadians know their North American history? I bet few. The dominant culture and those who benefitted and still do are reluctant to reveal the devastation created by expansion of the US and Canada (British Empire).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_…

So many believe Kenney wants to go back to the 1950’s.

I keep repeating it’s not the 1950’s. That was the Golden Age of American Capitalism.

Kenney is looking to implement a return to 1850. Before human rights. Before treaties. When whomever legally claimed land owned it.

The Guilded Age and absence of worker protections.

And the realization of a couple centuries of oligarch’s wet dreams; Manifest Destiny.

The exclusive right for Evangelical Christians to create the Kingdom of God in their own image.

Not God’s image. What they, Dominionist Christians, believe to be God’s Kingdom.

Patriarchal, strict social hierarchy, devout faith and adherence to biblical law, property owners were almost gods themselves, and everyone knew their place.

Slaves, indentured servants and wage workers subsisted. Many died, but there were always more. There were three classes of people. The chattel slaves, workers and servants, the tiny middle class of clerks and white collar workers, and the wealthy, who made all the rules and laws.

That’s what UCP, CPC and every other radicalized Christian Nationalist is striving for.

And they are succeeding.

Because we continue to allow their caustic beliefs and values to be considered legitimate.

In case you’re wondering, Hitler designed his Nazi movement after Southern US slave states.

That’s where early 20th century to mid 20th century fascism originated.

Hitler just copied slave state ideology and the American Manifest Destiny.

Those who are ignorant of history are bound to repeat it.

Is this our future or our past?

Never again is now.

Poor houses were common features. Starve or die from the elements. Or work slave labour for room and board.

The poor were housed like cattle.

Poor children were cheap and exploitable labour. Paid less than their adult counterparts.

Slavery was legal.

Indentured servitude was the only way the poor could survive outside of workhouses. How many immigrants came to Canada as indentured servants in wealthy households? Quite a few. My ancestors came from the Scottish Orkneys to work for 5yrs to earn a living.

How many poor and subsistence wage earners fought for labour rights by exercising their right to strike?

How many of them lost their lives fighting to be treated with dignity and paid a fair wage? Thousands.

That’s what wealthy property owning Libertarian Christian Nationalists are aiming for.

They want Dominion. Not equality. They want to return to a time when they had all the advantages and control of all the wealth.

Know your history!

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