Connecting the Dots

The execution of Robespierre

There have been a few seemingly unrelated bits of shocking information a short while ago. Although they appear to issue in reverse directions, I assume with each other they imply the exact point.

Initially, the reputed impending arrest of Donald Trump.

2nd, the exposure of Chinese impact on Canadian elections by the Globe and Mail and Global News a tale that looks to be rising alternatively than swept below the CBC rug.

Third, an initiative by some customers of the South Carolina legislature to impose the death penalty for abortion.

Collectively, I consider they counsel that we are at or near or potentially just further than an inflection position. Wokeism is dying.

The arrest of Trump exhibits desperation. By all accounts, it is not lawfully defensible, and the fees will not keep up in court. The most likely end result will be to boost sympathy for Trump. It establishes his bona fides as an enemy of the institution. It could be intentionally provocative—Trump supporters who appear out to protest may possibly be branded as an additional “insurrection.” But that assault appears to be risky, as the original “January 6th” alarm looks to have been discredited.

A single may suppose it is just one rogue prosecutor out to make a name for himself. But this is a Democratic prosecutor in New York in that milieu, he is not heading to be contemplating in a vacuum. Groupthink is the common circumstance on the still left. He has been at the cocktail functions, and evidently no one is telling him it is a poor strategy.

It appears like a Hail Mary move, an act of desperation to reduce Trump’s candidacy. Or even like a scenario of employing the electrical power to the hilt ahead of you lose it. Like these individuals who, explained to the 2nd Coming was at hand, went out and copulated on the hilltops.

The Canadian media establishment seeming to transform on Trudeau appears to be to argue in the reverse course. They are acquired and paid out for and have right until now been reputable in functioning cover for the Liberals. Now they’re all turning on him at after. The most straightforward rationalization is that they have made a decision there is no way they can cover for him this time that he is likely down regardless. So the finest tactic is to lower their losses, try to recoup some trustworthiness, and probably forestall the new federal government turning off the money taps. They no doubt know far more than we of what is coming they have to have to get on the profitable facet.

And then there is the South Carolina monthly bill. It will absolutely not pass, but it also seems to be like awful politics. It appears to confirm the fears of the remaining about the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Abortion has till now been considered a third rail most secure to steer crystal clear of taking a stand. But this is like an open problem to the woke a declaration of war.

How do these puzzle items in shape with each other?

Most people today are not ethical. They are worried only with themselves and their personalized welfare. If some group close to them raises a cry of injustice, their 1st intuition will be to shut them up: crush them if important. That are currently being troublesome. If, having said that, the irate group wields significant electricity, the intuition is to give them what they want in hopes they will settle down, and go away the rest of us on your own. This is the intuition to appeasement, and it has tested rewarding to lots of fascination teams. But if the interest group persists for far too very long, and will make much too several requires, a tipping position is sooner or later achieved, at which it looks safer and fewer disruptive to declare all-out war than to proceed to appease till they come for your have stuff.

This was the calculation that finished Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. Sooner or later, absolutely everyone else understood their only security was to get rid of Robespierre. This was the French and British calculation when Hitler invaded Poland: if they did not last but not least consider a stand someplace, Hitler was not likely to quit right up until he was powerful more than enough to devour England and France.

I feel the remaining has recklessly and greedily pushed items to this tipping point. As a final result, not just persons on the ideal, but most likely the amoral wonderful bulk of the men and women, see that appeasing them is the greater danger. They can seize your financial institution account. They can lock you in your house. They can invade your loos. They can mutilate your youngsters. They can arrest and imprison you indefinitely on fake fees. They hate you for your pores and skin colour, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. 

No shock if the mood of appeasement and compromise vanishes. No surprise if there’s a increasing. No shock that there is no mood now for 50 percent-steps and compromise on abortion. Folks are presently in the streets in France and the Netherlands. 

I only hope bodies hanging from streetlamps and the like will not materialize in Canada. It will transpire somewhere, but elites in numerous other places might master the lesson by instance just before they way too are engulfed. That the media here appears to be turning, and Pierre Poilievre appears to give an orderly different, bodes properly for Canada. But the predicament is fluid.