The federal government pitched a sizeable increase to the alcohol
excise tax earlier this year — only to walk back that commitment in
response to backlash from some MPs, lobby groups and cost-conscious
Canadian drinkers.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's budget kept the annual tax increase much lower than inflation — it'll grow by just 2 per cent
this year — after a well-organized letter-writing campaign convinced
the government that the political repercussions of such a hike weren't
worth the relatively modest revenue bump.
There was similar
blowback when the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
recently issued new drinking guidelines that claimed no amount of alcohol is safe.
The recommendation prompted derision
from some who said the health professionals behind the research are
fun-averse teetotalers bent on needlessly worrying people about the
risks of wine, beer and spirits. The government-funded data still hasn't
been posted publicly by Health Canada.
These incidents reveal
just how deeply entrenched alcohol is in Canadian life — and how
reluctant the government is to crack down on drinking.
"You
know, alcohol is the favourite substance of many policymakers and
indeed for a lot of us. It has sort of an iconic cultural status.
Politicians — they don't want to do much about it," said Dr. Tim Naimi,
the director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the
University of Victoria.
"It's the leading cause of preventable
death in Canada. It's the government's job to protect Canadians from the
tremendous harms caused by alcohol. For some reason, they feel
threatened by the facts."
At least one politician wants to do something to curb consumption.
Quebec Sen. Patrick Brazeau is a recovering alcoholic. His struggles with addiction have been well-documented.
Sober for three years, Brazeau now wants other Canadians to avoid the potentially life-altering effects of alcohol abuse.
"If
you had told me 10 years ago I'd be sober and introducing a bill to
label alcohol products, I would've told you you're crazy,"
Brazeau told CBC News. "I was drinking way too much because I was
hurting inside. I was trying to kill the pain."
Sen. Patrick Brazeau has introduced Bill S-254, which would mandate health labels on all alcohol bottles. (Olivier Hyland/CBC News)
Brazeau said alcohol is the only known carcinogen that comes without warning labels.
He's introduced Bill S-254, which would mandate health labels on all alcohol bottles alerting consumers to the possibility of cancer.
Tobacco, vape and cannabis packages are already plastered with dire warnings, he said, and alcohol shouldn't get a pass.
"There's still a lot of taboo around alcohol — it's so widely accepted in our society," he said.
"But
alcohol is not good for us and we have to stop pretending that it is.
[It] doesn't seem there are too many people on Parliament Hill, elected
officials, who are willing to take the bull by the horns and do
something."
According to data collected by Naimi's institute,
about 25 per cent of Canadian drinkers have no idea that alcohol can
cause seven fatal cancers.
Other jurisdictions have tried to publicize these risks.
Liquor
labels, including one warning that alcohol can cause cancer, were
placed on alcohol containers at a store in Yukon by researchers. (Supplied by Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research)
Researchers in Yukon placed warnings on liquor bottles in 2017.
The results were immediate — sales dropped by 6.6 per cent at
a Whitehorse store as more consumers saw the prominently placed red
labels. The project was scrapped amid pressure from some industry
groups.
A spokesperson for Spirits Canada, a lobby group that
represents the distilled spirits industry, did not respond to a request
for comment on Brazeau's bill. Beer Canada has said the industry can regulate itself.
A cash cow for governments
Governments depend on liquor sales to generate billions of dollars in revenue to fund public programs.
Drinkers — about 76 per cent of all Canadians consume alcohol in a given year — are understandably reluctant to pay more for a product that, statistics show, many regularly enjoy.
Some drinkers
also bristle at the suggestion that moderate consumption is a problem,
and defend alcohol as one of life's little pleasures.
While much
attention has been paid to the ongoing opioid epidemic — a tragic health
event that has claimed the lives of thousands of Canadian drug users —
publicly available data reveals there's a parallel crisis underway.
Dr.
Tim Naimi, the director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use
Research at the University of Victoria, holds a can of corn. He says
food packages contain nutritional information and alcohol bottles should
be no different. (Michael Mcarthur/CBC News)
"The opioid epidemic is a massive public health problem, but we have a very serious problem with alcohol, too," said Naimi.
"It's
just that alcohol has been with us for a long time. We've essentially
learned to live with a high rate of problems from many, many years."
Canada recorded 3,875 alcohol-induced deaths in 2021, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada — a 21 per cent increase over 2019 that likely was driven by a pandemic-related spike in consumption.
Other Canadian research suggests alcohol is even more deadly than those numbers suggest.
A
peer-reviewed study published by the Public Health Agency of Canada
suggests alcohol consumption in Canada is associated with approximately 15,000 preventable deaths (including 7,000 cancer deaths) and 90,000 preventable hospital admissions every year.
(Preventable
deaths from alcohol are defined as alcohol-related cancers,
cardiovascular disease, liver disease, unintentional injuries and
violence.)
Those
numbers closely track what's been reported in the U.S., a country with a
population almost ten times that of Canada. The United States
reports about 140,000 alcohol-related deaths each year.
While
the government has rolled out a suite of policy measures to curb
opioid-related deaths — there are more safe-consumption sites now and
naloxone kits are ubiquitous — it's said comparatively little about what
can be done to reduce alcohol-related death and disease.
Data shows that about 20 per cent of Canadians reported alcohol consumption that classified them as "heavy drinkers," according to Statistics Canada.
The
numbers are higher in Newfoundland and Labrador (27.7 per cent) and
Quebec (21.2 per cent) and lower in Manitoba (16 per cent) and Ontario
(17.3 per cent).
A
pandemic-driven boom in alcohol-related deaths and disease has prompted
health advocates to call for warning labels on alcohol bottles. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
Over
the past decade, about 600,000 Canadians have become physically
dependent on alcohol — a condition that can lead to injuries, violence,
alcohol poisoning, risky sexual behaviour, heart disease, stroke, liver
disease, cancer and mental health problems.
While alcohol is a cash cow for all levels of government, researchers say that profit is dwarfed by other costs.
The
provincially owned Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the world's
largest alcohol importer, generated an annual dividend of roughly $2.4 billion in 2020-21.
I have 26 years left in the Senate so I'm in it for the long haul.
- Sen. Patrick Brazeau
By comparison, the collective impact of alcohol use on health care, crime and lost productivity has been pegged at an estimated $22.4 billion a year —
a figure higher than the costs of tobacco use and the costs of all
other psychoactive substances combined, including opioids and cannabis —
according to research by Naimi's institute in Victoria.
"This is a
big ticket item. Taxpayers are footing the bill for what amounts to ...
a subsidy on alcohol and heavy drinking in particular," Naimi said.
A
spokesperson for federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn
Bennett said the government will "continue to monitor" Brazeau's bill as
it makes its way through Parliament.
As for the charge that it
hasn't done enough to curb problem drinking, the spokesperson said
"alcohol use is a serious and complex public health and safety issue."
Government won't support bill, Brazeau says
The
government is investing in programs to prevent alcohol use during
pregnancy, funding substance use and addiction support programs,
restricting alcohol content in some beverages and financing research,
the spokesperson said.
Brazeau knows he's facing an uphill battle.
In a meeting with Bennett, the minister told Brazeau the government likely won't support his bill, he said.
He's also routinely approached by lobbyists who are intent on killing the legislation, he added.
Brazeau
said he's getting some support from other senators to push the
legislation to committee — but he's not naive about the challenges that
lie ahead in taking on such a popular vice.
"I have 26 years left in the Senate so I'm in it for the long haul," he said.
Referring back to his now infamous boxing match with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Brazeau said, "I'm not afraid of getting in a fight or getting knocked around."
We are in an informational civil war and James Lindsay is a general. Must watch speech
James Lindsay discusses that woke ideology is an evolution of Marxism, designed to attack the West and transform societies through tactics similar to Maoist cultural revolutions. By using Americanized identity categories and provoking middle-level violence, it seeks to dismantle Western civilization. Europe must understand the nature of this threat to effectively respond, as giving in or overreacting could lead to dire consequences. The ultimate goal of this movement is to establish a global citizenry, focused on global responsibilities rather than rights, creating a future that resembles China's oppressive regime. It is crucial to fight back against this movement by understanding and identifying the true nature of the enemy.
Lindsay is the perfect example of why it's important to judge people by actions, not labels. He is an atheist, but his morals align with that of a god fearing man.
March 30, 2023 "Woke, a culture war against Europe" Identity and Democracy Foundation https://id-foundation.eu and MEP Tom Vandendriessche at the European Parliament
Transcription:
Hello, thank you. I'm glad to be here. I want to address something Tom just said, which is in fact that Woke is supposed to advance equity in Europe. So here's the definition of equity and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else you've ever heard of?
The definition of equity comes from the public administration literature. It was written by a man named George Frederickson and the definition is: - An administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal.
Does that sound like anything you've heard of before? Like socialism, they're going to administer an economy to make shares equal? The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute the type of shares they're going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital.
And so this is my thesis: when we say what is woke, woke is Maoism with American characteristics. If I might borrow from Mao himself who said that his philosophy was Marxism, Leninism with Chinese characteristics, which means woke is Marxism and it's a very provocative statement. It's something you will certainly hear. It is not that it is different and the professors and the philosophers will spend a large amount of time explaining to you. Why? No, no. It's about economics when it's Marxism, this is social, this is cultural, this is different. It's not different.
I need you to think biologically for one moment. And I don't mean about your bodies. We could do that. That's a different topic. I want you to think how we organize plants and animals. When we study them, they're species but above species, they are the genus of the animals. So you think like the cats, all the cats, but you have tigers, you have lions, you have house cats, you have whatever leopards, many different kinds of cats. If we think of Marxism as a genus of ideological thought, then classical economic Marxism is a species radical. Feminism is a species in the same genus. Critical race theory is a genus or sorry. A species in this genus. Queer theory is a species in this genus, postcolonial theory. That's plaguing Europe is a species in this genus and they have something that binds them together called intersectionality that makes them treated as if they are all one thing. But the logic is Marxist and I want to convince you of that because Marx had a very simple proposition, but we get lost. We think that Marx was talking about economics because he often talked about economics. He wrote a book called Capital. It's a very famous book. And we think, well, this is about economic theory, but this isn't true. It, it's only true on the surface. If we go below the surface, what Marx was talking about was something different.
We know what Marx's hypothesis was, was that we must seize the means of production. If we're going to bring socialism to the nations, to the world, we have to seize the means of production. So we have to ask, what does he mean? And if we think that it's about capital, then we miss what he means. If you think it's about the means of production in the factory with a hammer and the means of production in the field with a sickle, then you miss what it means because Marx explained what makes human beings special in his earlier writings and what makes human beings special is that man is a being that is incomplete and knows that he is incomplete. He is a man whose true nature has been forgotten to him, which is social being.
He is a socialist at heart who doesn't realize it. And the reason he doesn't realize it is because of the economic conditions operating as a means of construction or production, not just of the economy, but of him, but of man, of society and particularly of history.
Marx said that he had the first scientific study of history. How is history produced by man doing man's activity and man's key activity was economic activity as he saw it. And so economic production doesn't just produce the goods and services of the economy, it produces society itself and society in terms produces man. He called this the inversion of practice.
And so when he says, we must seize the means of production. And he's talking about factories and fields, he's actually talking about how we construct who we are as human beings so that we might complete ourselves, so that we might complete history. And at the end of history, mankind will remember that he is a social being and we will have a socialist society, a perfect communism that transcends private property is how he put it.
He said in fact that communism is the transcendence of private property as human self estrangement. That's a quote from the economic philosophic manuscripts of 1944 18 44. So Marx was interested in controlling or understanding and controlling how man produces himself. And he writes about this exclusively in the 18 forties very deeply.
How do we do this? And he looks at the economic conditions and he says this is where it is. And that's why we get economic Marxism. And that's why we think Marx was an economist, but Marx was never an economist. He was a theologian. He wanted to produce a religion for mankind that would supersede all of the religions of mankind and bring him back to his true social nature. And this is the true fact of Marx.
And what the goal was like I said is to complete man. So what he said is, well, how are we building man? Currently, all of his economic analysis is about how are we building man at present through what he called material determinism. And he said, well, what we have is a special form of private property in our society. Our society is organized around private property. And so all of our thoughts organize around private property.
In other words, there's a special kind of property that the bourgeois elite class has access to. And then they organize society to exclude everybody else from access to that property, through exploitation, through alienation, through estrangement, through oppression.
And so what Karl Marx was proposing is the economics becomes a vehicle to separate society into a bourgeois class that has access to a special form of property. The people who have access wish to retain that. So they oppress people and keep other people out of that special form of property. They erect a system of classism to do that. It's enforced by an ideology called capitalism that believes that this is the right way to engage in the world.
And what we have to do is awaken the under class, the proletariat to the real conditions and the fact that they are historical agents of change and bring them to do a revolution and transform society so that we would have equity or socialism, whichever word you want, they have the same definition.
Now, let's say that we step out, we, this is we, we step back from this species, this economic species, homo economicus. And we step back to the genus. And we look at this idea, a special form of property that segregates society into people who have the bourgeois and the people who do not have, who are in class conflict with an ideology that keeps this in place and the under class must awaken with consciousness to fight back and to seize the means of production of that form of deterministic property.
And now we say change out class put in race and watch. We get. Critical race theory falls out of the hat just like that. Very simple.
In 1993 Cheryl Harris wrote a long article for the Harvard Law review called Whiteness is property. She explained that whiteness or White privilege constitutes a kind of cultural private property. She says it must be abolished in order to have racial justice, just like Karl Marx said that in the Communist Manifesto, he wrote communism can be summarized in a single sentence, the abolition of private property.
Well, that is why critical race theory calls to abolish whiteness because whiteness is a form of private property. People who have access to this property are whites or white adjacent or they act white. These are words out of the American lexicon that they've used to describe how how people gain access to the private property people without that are people of color and they are oppressed by systemic racism.
Systemic racism is enforced by an ideology of white supremacy instead of capitalism. If you think of whiteness as a form of cultural capital, white supremacy as they define, it is identical to capitalism, it's the belief, it's not believing that white people are superior. It's believing that white people have access to the control of society and should maintain that even if you don't actually believe that if you merely support that you have adopted the, the ideology of white supremacy into your mind. And so you have the exact same system. And the goal is to awaken a racial consciousness in people so that they will band together as a class and seize the means of cultural production so that white cultural production is no longer the dominant mode.
It's a big mystery in Europe. I know in the UK throughout Europe. I hear this question again and again, why on earth is this very American phenomenon about slavery and so on? That doesn't apply to our country? Why is it popular here? It's because it's not about history at all. It's not about slavery at all. Those are excuses that they use. It's about creating a class consciousness that's against this form of property called whiteness, that's against the dominant culture. That may just be a matter of fact say if you're in Europe, that's why because it becomes a site by which people can come together and they can channel resentment and try to claim power.
I wrote a book called Race Marxism and I defined Critical Race Theory as it really is in that book. On the first page. I said that critical race theory is calling everything you want to control racist until you control it. But couldn't we say the same about Marxism? It's calling everything you want to control bourgeois until you control it. But those mean the same thing, they mean exactly the same thing.
But what about say queer theory, how is that Marxist? It's very strange. All this gender and sex and sexuality. Well, Tom said, what is woke attack? The idea of being normal? Well, the queer theory thinks that there are certain people who get to set the norms of society, they are privileged, they call themselves normal. They say this is normal. It's normal to consider yourself a man and look like a man and act like a man and dress like a man and eat meat like a man. And then there are women that should be feminine and pretty and all these things. And so they get to define what's normal. They're heterosexuals. So they get to define the heterosexuality as normal and other sexualities are abnormal. And so you have a conflict across this cultural property of who gets to be considered normal and who is a pervert or a freak or some other term that gets used in their literature, but technically who is a queer, which sounds like a slur, but they adopted it and it's a technical academic term. Now, it means an identity without an essence, by the way, an identity that is strictly oppositional to the concept of the normal, as defined by queer theorist David Halperin. In his 1995 book, Saint Foca Toward a Gay he Geography. I didn't make that up. I'm not extrapolating.
So you see queer theory is just another species of the genus of Marxism. What about postcolonial theory? Which is plaguing Europe? Thanks to Franz Fanon and his biggest European fan. Jean Paul Sartre. What about this? What's the same? You have the West as the oppressor, they have access to the material and cultural wealth of the world because they've decided their culture is the default and have gone and colonized the world to bring culture to the world as they say. And so the oppressed the, the, the the natives around the world, the people have to band together and their activity is going to be called decolonization. They have to remove every aspect of Western culture.
So when they come to Belgium or they come to France or they come to the United States and they say we're going to decolonize the curriculum or they go to the UK and say we're going to decolonize Shakespeare. This is what they mean. We're going to remove the cultural significance of your cultural artifacts because those cultural artifacts themselves are oppressive to us.
This is the same system. It's another species and the exact same genus and that genus is Marxism, which is a way of thinking about the world. And the goal is always to seize the means of control of the production of man and history and society. Marx merely believed it was through economic means. Now it's through socio-cultural means.
The evolution into this sometimes called Western Marxism began in the 19 twenties. We had a Russian revolution in 1917 and this did not happen in Europe and the Marxists in Europe were confused. And so Antonio Gramsci sat down and wrote out some things and George Luca sat down and wrote history and class consciousness after the failure of the revolution in Hungary. And they wrote what became Cultural Marxism, the idea that we have to enter the cultural institutions in order to change them from within because Western culture has something about it that's repelling socialism. So we have to go inside and change the culture to make it socialist.
Now you aren't allowed to talk about Cultural Marxism. Now they've categorized this as a conspiracy theory. They say that it is anti-Semitic, this is not true. Antonio Gramsci wrote books. George Lucas wrote books, you can read those books. They have a philosophy. If they don't like the name Cultural Marxism, we can use the name that other people at the time used Western Marxism.
So much like, uh I don't know, a virus adapting to the conditions, it changed, it changed to try to infect a new host. It worked in feudal societies. Marxism took over in Russia. It took over later in China, it took over in all of these kind of agriculturally driven feudal societies, but it wouldn't work in actual capitalist nations because Marx was wrong.
Then several Germans from the Frankfurt School started to study this phenomenon in more depth. And they evolved the idea further. They evolved the idea into what's called critical Marxism. They developed what's called the critical theory. And Max Horkheimer, who designed the critical theory, explained the critical theory. And what did he say?
He said, well, what we came to realize was that Marx was wrong about one thing. Capitalism does not immiserate the worker, it allows him to build a better life. So I developed the critical theory because it is not possible to articulate the vision of a good society on the terms of the existing society. So critical Marxism criticizes the entirety of the existing society. Everything is somehow needing to be subjected to Marxist conflict analysis. But how is that to be done?
They sought an answer through the middle part of the 20th century and World War Two breaks out. The Frankfurt School comes to America, which in this metaphor is the Wuhan Institute of Virology because gain of function began to happen on the Marxist virus very quickly in America and American universities adopted these professors from Germany and Herbert Mara.
Writing in the 19 sixties said extremely clearly this writing in 1969 not only did he say capitalism delivers the goods, gives people a good life, makes them wealthy and comfortable and happy. He also said that the working class is no longer going to be the base of the revolution because of these things. In other words, we don't have to be responsible to the working class anymore, which opens up the ability for Marxists who are seeking power to make friends with the corporations, the bosses are no longer the enemy. They're an opportunity because the working class is irrelevant.
He said the energy is somewhere else. He said it's in the racial minorities, the sexual minorities, the feminists, the outsiders, that's who he said have the energy for a Marxist revolution in the West, not the working class. And so Marxism was able to evolve to abandon the working class. And so what did they do? Well, all they had studied for 30 years was what they called the culture industry. An industry that commodifies and packages culture and sells it back to people. So supposedly stripped of what it actually is empty, abstract now.
And so what of course did they do? They seized the means of production of the culture industry because that's what they do. And so they started to transform the culture industry to sell racial, sexual gender, sexuality based agit prop as though that were genuine culture. And so we get concepts like cultural appropriation, we get concepts like cultural relevance, cultural, this cultural, that cultural everything and it's all provided in past, it's all provided as a mockery of what's really going on.
And this evolved in America's highly racialized context. And we ended up with woke, a form of identity based Marxism, a constellation of Marxist species that all work with the same operating premise, but locate themselves in different and I'll use the German term here for this folk. LGBTQ is a folk and they get folkish identity there and become activists. The black community is a folk. How do I know? That's what W E B. Du Bois said it would be when he laid down the foundations that became critical race theory later. They think of themselves as nations, don't they all have flags? Don't they put them on your buildings like colonizers, don't they hang them in your streets?
They think of themselves as occupying nations, but they see themselves as bound together just like the various colonized nations around the world and seeking liberation from Western civilization. And so we end up with Western Marxism taking many forms, but with one overarching approach and the approach that they use, I started off by saying, is Maoist not merely Marxist.
Now, you know, the theory is Marx, it's just evolved into different species to attack the West at its weakest points through our tolerance, through our acceptance, through our openness, through our generosity, through our best traits. Actually, the things that we should be proud of being, the things that we are proud of being.
But Mao Zeon knew how to use identity politics. I don't know how you study in Europe. But in America, we have very red washed education, as we might say, the communists have stripped out all education about communism entirely. You don't learn about it in America at all. So we don't learn anything about Mao and maybe you don't know this.
But I tell this to American audiences and they're shocked, Mao used identity politics. He created 10 identities in China, five he labeled red for communist, and five he labeled black for fascist. And he categorized people into these identity categories. What they are doesn't really matter. Of course, they were communists. They were things like landlord and rich farmer and things like this right winger is a bad category in and of itself by the way, conservative. All of them bad, bad influences. That's another one.
You could be a bad influence for just thinking the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing at any time or because the government decides it doesn't like you. These are the bad categories. And if you have a bad category, very importantly, your children have a bad category by default. So they create a social pressure for your children to identify as revolutionaries. At which point they get a red identity, a communist identity, a good identity and they get rewarded for it.
And the youth led the revolution in China because Mao did this identity politics to the children in the schools that should feel very uncomfortable to you. Because here we have, at least in the United States, we tell our children being white is bad, being white is oppressive. You automatically hurt people of other races by your very existence. But by the way, if you become queer, we'll celebrate you and you can create a radical army of people who identify as gender minorities and sexual minorities.
At seven years old, you can lead them into paths of puberty blockers in transition, medical transition, which of course big pharma profits off of at seven years old behind their parents' back. There's a reason for this. It's the same program that Mao Zedong used to radicalize the youth in China.
The only thing different is the identity categories have shifted. It's Maoist cultural revolution with American characteristics and it's being exported to Europe. And just like how critical race theory has come to Europe, even though it doesn't make sense, it will come to Europe whether it makes sense or not. And you will have a cultural revolution here too. You guys even had a kind of offshoot one in 2020.
George Floyd dies in Minnesota, which has nothing to do with you, and you guys have statues coming down in Europe. Total nonsense. It doesn't matter though, the point is to destroy Western civilization from within using Maoist's techniques. One last point about Mao to kind of drive that point home: Mao said in 1942 that his formula to transform China was called unity, criticism, unity. First, you try to create the desire for unity, then you criticize people for not living up to that, then you bring them into unity under a new standard.
Does that feel like what you're being put through? But the words are different. We use words like inclusion and belonging. We'll have a place where everybody feels like they belong. We just want to have an inclusive space. But unfortunately, you have racist ideas and you have to criticize for you. We have to criticize you for those, you need to criticize yourself. For those, you need to go study in Mandarin exactly like Mao said and then we can bring you into unity under a new standard which Mao called socialist discipline, which we in the West would not buy, we call it in the West inclusion.
And so we have this new program and within inclusion, we have or above inclusion. Actually, we have sustainability. We have a sustainable and inclusive future. I see the agenda 2030 here with an X over it, the sustainable and inclusive future is the new socialist standard that we will have freedom under socialist discipline. And Mao said the way that that will work is through what he called democratic centralism. We call that stakeholder capitalism. And my shot at the World Economic Forum is taken because it's one of the things coordinating this.
My shot at the United Nations is taken because it's one of the things that's coordinating this so woke is Marxism. It's advancing through Maoist cultural Revolution. It's using Americanized identity categories. And while some of those will not work in Europe, I guarantee you the colonial aspect will, they will find your weakness. They will adapt the theory to fit because it's like a virus that will evolve to its host and Europe is at great risk.
Now, the last thing I'll mention is this risk is twofold when you endure Marxist provocation, Marxist strategy is always of the same type. It's called middle level violence. They don't come at you with full blown Bolshevik assault very often. It's middle level violence they provoke which means if you give in and you do like Jean Paul said in his foreword to the wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon, the postcolonial book. He said the violence is coming. So Europe's best bet is to give it away so that they don't kill you, they'll murder you and take it or maybe you can give it away, give your culture away, give your countries away and they'll let you live. They're coming for you and this is what Europe needs to learn.
That's what he says in the forward of wretched of the earth, you can read it for yourself probably in the original French that I can't read. And I think that's the path Europe has followed. So you can give away, that's one side because they provoke at the middle, or you can react and overreact, which sadly Europe has had a rough history in the last century with overreactions. And if they, if you overreact, what will they do? They will weaponize your overreaction for a century, forever, and gain moral authority so that you end up having to give it away later anyway.
So you have to stand firm in your principles, but you have to do so cleverly. You have to do so understanding that you're being provoked, which means you don't react as the provocateur wants you to react; you have to outsmart them, which is not possible unless you know the diagnosis of your problem. It's a Polish Proverb: never attempt to cure what you don't understand.
Woke is Marxism evolved to attack the West. If you don't understand that, you will not act correctly, you will not cure it, and it will conquer your countries, it will conquer all of Europe, and we will have a very, very long sustainable and inclusive future with absolutely no freedom because the goal is to make us into what they call global citizens.
Have you heard this term? This term? Is nonsense. There's no global sovereign. So there is no global citizenship. There's no relationship because there's no ruler, and we don't want a ruler of the globe. It's a nonsense term. But they tell you if you actually read their literature, what is a global citizen? It's somebody, I kid you not, I make no joke. They say this themselves. It's somebody who supports the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030. That's a global citizen.
And they say, what are the rights of a global citizen? This is in a book about global citizenship education published two years ago. What are the rights of a global citizen? And the answer, one paragraph later, is we're not that interested in rights with global citizenship. It's more about global responsibilities. In other words, slavery, this is a pivotal moment in the history of the Western world.
The model that they are pushing us to, using the means and mechanisms of that place, is the model we see in China. If you want to know what your future looks like if we don't stop the woke, look at China, look at the social credit system, look at the oppression, look at people disappearing for having the wrong opinions. One of their greatest billionaires, Jack Ma, said the wrong thing about the government and disappeared. A billionaire. If you want to know what the future of Europe and America and the Five Eyes or whatever the countries, it's China.
That's the model. So we have to fight back against woke, but to fight back against woke, we have to understand it. And I will close by restating my thesis: woke as Marxism evolved to take on the West. And it's been very successful so far because we haven't known our enemy. We cannot name our enemy. And I've come here to name our enemy. So thank you for your time and attention and letting me do that.
Have you ever wondered what the “woke” industrial complex actually means? Over the past century, several iterations of Marxism have been rolled out in a number of nations. In recent years, the woke movement in America has displayed eerie similarities to the language and behaviors associated with these Marxist doctrines practiced in autocratic regimes.
While these modern forms of Marxism are riddled with internal contradictions, naive individuals can be deceived by their false promises of “liberation” from oppression and “social transformation.”
The bottom line is that the woke movement attempts to reconstruct the moral foundations of the American republic in order to amass and consolidate power over others via fear. First, this secular theology seeks to dismantle the building blocks of society such as community, family, faith, free markets, and responsible liberty. It also attempts to emasculate good men and demean values-driven women—all to supposedly create a new, utopian world.
“Wokesters” don’t wish to be empowered to govern themselves. That’s too difficult, because it requires discipline and intellectual inquiry, which can be uncomfortable. Wokeness demands that everyone adhere to an arbitrary vocabulary of convoluted phrases and words that are deemed “inclusive.” If some rebel against this bondage, they’re excommunicated. The capricious nature of the ideology is meant to keep people on their heels so that leftist elites can exercise an insatiable appetite for raw power.
Disciples of wokeism utilize the Saul Alinsky playbook of targeting opponents, isolating them, freezing them, and then canceling them. It becomes an Orwellian world where vices are virtues and virtues are vices, lies are truth, and truth is a lie. In this fantasy, men can be women and women can be men. This inverted ideology manifests as transhumanism, which runs counter to universally accepted moral and natural laws. It’s the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde form of nature tampering.
Wokeism’s primary tools of repression consist of manufactured grievances, economic ignorance, unearned entitlement, revisionist history (1619 Project), race- and gender-based employment quotas, and a perpetual victimhood mindset. In other words, folks who are attracted to this vision lack the ability to move beyond emotions to a realm of realism and reason. They’re doomed to repeat the history they never absorbed (George Santayana).
Wokeists battle perceived racism with racism by evaluating folks by their skin color, ethnicity, or gender. This identity politics is the opposite of what Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela preached. Indeed, “progressives” peddle critical race theory and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) narratives, but essentially these theories are racist against Caucasians and Asians, who are considered to be “white adjacent.”
Woke advocates for women’s rights are strangely silent regarding the suffering of women around the world. They also don’t lift a finger when female sports under Title IX are demolished by the transgender industry under the guise of equity and inclusion. There’s plenty of virtue signaling minus genuine virtues.
Card-carrying members of “progressivism” often lack the curiosity to search for factual truths because moral relativism is their guide. For example, many believe that the AR-15 stands for assault rifle. It actually means ArmaLite Rifle, which was the firm that developed the firearm.
Moreover, unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic mandates were coerced upon Americans while countless unlawful immigrants streamed into this country without vetting for health or security risks. To the left, criminals are treated as victims, while crime victims are regarded as criminals in this topsy-turvy world.
These harebrained ideas have infiltrated many institutions and dumbed down society, especially in blue states such as California. Homelessness and lawlessness have flourished because of idiotic anti-law enforcement policies. Even liberal San Francisco has ousted its George Soros-funded district attorney, Chesa Boudin, and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón might face another recall election because of his soft-on-crime policies.
Left-leaning moneyed elites who finance the woke apparatus would have us believe that the middle class and poor minorities have created the narrative of oppression in a free society. Hogwash! It’s narcissistic elites who focus on America’s past misdeeds instead of taking a balanced approach to the sweep of U.S. history. They’ve given up on the human race, taken their blessings for granted, and ignored the divine spark in every individual. They’re also immune to the repercussions of their dystopian edicts.
Hoover Institute contributor and University of Toronto psychology professor emeritus Jordan Peterson was a liberal at one time. However, when the academic community began making demands such as requiring professors to use students’ preferred pronouns and write DEI statements as a precondition to receiving research grants, his eyes were opened regarding the insidious nature of the woke movement. Now, he’s a warrior for common sense and exposes the irrational narrative that has infected many of our key institutions.
How can reasonable folks defeat the diabolical woke apparatus? Unfortunately, many young people are attracted to this form of socialist indoctrination because it appeals to the baser aspects of human nature.
However, there’s hope because woke “revolutionaries” lack the attention span and dedication of genuine revolutionaries of the past who endured great suffering. It’s unlikely that hardcore leaders of the woke movement can be reasoned with, but the young fence-sitters might be persuaded to move toward reality. They’re still developing their philosophy of life and likely see facets of wokeism that just don’t compute. They seek answers in many of the wrong places but still question what they hear and see.
First, decent folks with moral principles should never apologize to the woke crowd. It’ll only be perceived as weakness, and they’ll be eaten alive. Be fearless in exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of the entire woke propaganda. Get involved in the process of refuting it and replacing it with a more objective narrative concerning human nature, American history, and the importance of merit-based success instead of introducing new forms of discrimination. There are countless examples of self-initiated success regardless of color, creed, gender, or race.
Next, seize opportunities to celebrate America’s tradition of natural diversity and systemic opportunity. Most folks understand that life is unfair for everyone and that maturation challenges shape character. We must teach this lesson over and over again to young people who are faced with conflicting messages from academia, government, and the legacy media.
Third, get involved in the political process by attending meetings at all levels of government. If necessary, run for the city council, board of education, county board, state office, and Congress. Familiarize yourself with the work of the Leadership Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Turning Point USA, and Young America’s Foundation, among others. They all do excellent work in countering Marxist propaganda disseminated by the government, media outlets, and public education.
If reasonable folks, across all points of the economic and political spectrum, carry out even some of these actions, the woke industrial complex will someday collapse under the weight of its internal contradictions. What’s at stake is the very heart and soul of the American republic.
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"Lord God, give us the strength so that we may retain our liberty for our children and our children's children, not only for ourselves but for other peoples of Europe, for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for your German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind." - Adolf Hitler
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