It's awful how uneducated Canadians are. We have to admit that our media and work culture have kept Canadians in the dark about basic political concepts. Having to ramp up from a 35-hour to a 60-hour workweek in order to care for kids leaves Canadian minds too tired to consume media that makes them wiser. Furthermore, many Canadian news publishers are operating at a level that doesn't provide context for anything they report on. Some even commit false neutrality.
There is mistaken logic behind the confusion that Poilievre is taking advantage of in people. Even as you explain the differences between Stalinism and Nazism, you show how they end in similar anarchy for everyday people. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact sought to bring supposedly opposite regimes in concert with one another as essentially the same arrangement. In the 1930s and 40s, supposed Leftists supported Fascism in an accelerationist strategy in favour of Russia, so it was all the same to them. Now, when normal people experience white and whitewashed "leftists" practicing authoritarianism and rendering advocacy groups useless, they learn Horseshoe Theory.
It's helpful that you make the distinction between how the end-result of both extremisms looks, and how their sources bring it about. People think they're opposing the bad thing when really they're just participating in the horseshoe. It's absolutely vital that you lay out what the hell we are trying to protect, because people actually have no idea. You're ungaslighting to those of us with the time and energy to read essays. And we need to see the language all the more because we have to repair the undereducations we received in the educational systems around Canada.
I decided to comment because a friend said that Poilievre should be embarrassed to have been caught claiming National Socialism is Socialism. My friend has no idea what people are like. Poilievre is not going to be embarrassed, because this is not a mistake. And there are perfectly unsurprising reasons why Canadians are susceptible to this strategy.
It's awful how uneducated Canadians are. We have to admit that our media and work culture have kept Canadians in the dark about basic political concepts. Having to ramp up from a 35-hour to a 60-hour workweek in order to care for kids leaves Canadian minds too tired to consume media that makes them wiser. Furthermore, many Canadian news publishers are operating at a level that doesn't provide context for anything they report on. Some even commit false neutrality.
There is mistaken logic behind the confusion that Poilievre is taking advantage of in people. Even as you explain the differences between Stalinism and Nazism, you show how they end in similar anarchy for everyday people. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact sought to bring supposedly opposite regimes in concert with one another as essentially the same arrangement. In the 1930s and 40s, supposed Leftists supported Fascism in an accelerationist strategy in favour of Russia, so it was all the same to them. Now, when normal people experience white and whitewashed "leftists" practicing authoritarianism and rendering advocacy groups useless, they learn Horseshoe Theory.
It's helpful that you make the distinction between how the end-result of both extremisms looks, and how their sources bring it about. People think they're opposing the bad thing when really they're just participating in the horseshoe. It's absolutely vital that you lay out what the hell we are trying to protect, because people actually have no idea. You're ungaslighting to those of us with the time and energy to read essays. And we need to see the language all the more because we have to repair the undereducations we received in the educational systems around Canada.
I decided to comment because a friend said that Poilievre should be embarrassed to have been caught claiming National Socialism is Socialism. My friend has no idea what people are like. Poilievre is not going to be embarrassed, because this is not a mistake. And there are perfectly unsurprising reasons why Canadians are susceptible to this strategy.