Among the countless un-conservative features of today's right wing, possibly the most un-conservative is their total lack of cultural memory. Collectively, the Canadian right's grasp of history is roughly equal to that of pubic lice.
Now, sometimes that amnesia is deliberate...
Now, sometimes that amnesia is deliberate...
Take the right's current pants-wetting hysteria over the "Great Reset", allegedly being enacted by a shadowy cabal of globalists headed by Klaus Schwab. Yes, it's a deeply unhinged conspiracy theory on the order of the Elders of Zion. It's also espoused by mainstream CPC figures
Some Rebel Media chud is apparently doing a "documentary" on it.
Here's the thing. The North American right have been the world's foremost disciples of globalisation for over 40 years...
Here's the thing. The North American right have been the world's foremost disciples of globalisation for over 40 years...
Globalisation, offshoring, direct foreign investment, capital/labour mobility, customs unions, borderless transactions, deregulation--these have all been neoconservative dogma. It's been called the "Washington Consensus", and it's been Holy Writ for Canada's right wing...
In Canada, this dogma is ancient, particularly on the Prairies. Sask-Albertan farmers were demanding free trade with the US in the early 20th century. Peter Lougheed made a federal commitment to free trade a condition of his support for Mulroney...
In a real sense, Canadian globalisation (like Canadian socialism) is a Prairie invention, with free trade serving as the gateway drug.
To the extent that globalisation menaces Canadian sovereignty, that menace is a right-wing product...
To the extent that globalisation menaces Canadian sovereignty, that menace is a right-wing product...
Not only did Canada's right wing invent and promote globalisation, but it demonised anti-globalisation activists, hurling puerile invective at people like Maude Barlow & revelling in the sight of anti-globalisation protesters being truncheoned in the streets at G7/G10 summits...
As if to confirm their longstanding reputation as vacant-headed zombies incapable of expressing a concept unless it's put there by some American crank, they changed their tune & became "nationalists" only when Donald Trump made it look like a good idea...
Thus, in a truly astonishing feat of supreme irony, even their nationalism is foreign-made. These imbeciles just can't do anything right.
Sure. Some of our younger right-wingers may be unaware that everything they deplore about "globalism" is the product of their own ideology...
Sure. Some of our younger right-wingers may be unaware that everything they deplore about "globalism" is the product of their own ideology...
They are simply ignorant, which is to be expected in a right winger, by mere definition. But people my age or near it--the Kenneys, the Berniers, the Poilievres--they know better. They know full well that they and their ilk have engineered what they pretend to stand against...
That's the key point: A right-wing politician in Canada doesn't need to commit malfeasance in office in order to be a fraud. Such a politician is *always already* a fraud, categorically and as such.
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