In both Canada and the States, as I pointed out in my last blog, “liberals” bereft of rational responses to the arguments of their “conservative” opponents, frequently resort to hateful slurs which would seem to make them guilty of the very fanaticism they purport to loathe.
The Canadian “conservative” website True North recently [Mar. 28] published a piece by Andrew Lawton on the antics of B.C. Liberal parliamentarian Ken Hardie. Last Oct., Hardie used his Twitter platform to denounce the Conservatives as a bunch of Nazis, the lies spewed by their leader, Pierre Poilievre, making him barely distinguishable from Josef Goebbels! Inasmuch as he had compared his political opponents to the greatest monsters of the 20th C., he apologized in the House of Commons shortly thereafter. Yet on Mar. 26 he made the very same claim, saying Poilievre continues to engage in his sleazy propagandistic lies because “he doesn’t have much else to offer.”
Now I’m not so naive as to suggest that Poilievre has never lied or exaggerated in support of his political agenda. But I do know that agenda is Rational and Just in ways utterly beyond the comprehension of most “woke liberals.” That he should be accused of being no better than a Nazi by a member of Canada’s government, is utterly disgusting.
Later on the 28th, Candace Malcolm of True North also published a piece, one which aptly illustrates the hypocrisy of those on the Left using terms like “propaganda” to demonize anyone who dares question the validity of their sacred and apparently unassailable world-view. She points out that the relentlessly “liberal” Toronto Star had that very morning produced an article staunchly defending Trudeau’s Bill C-63 intended to banish online “hate speech” by the imposition of hefty fines and prison sentences on anyone found guilty of such. The writer of the Star piece suggests opposition to the Act is just so much “rage farming” of no rational merit. Malcolm, however, insists “hate speech” is a ludicrously ambiguous term which more often than not turns out to be anything not consistent with Liberal policy. A multitude of critics, both domestic and foreign, would seem to agree. That Elon Musk is among them is hardly surprising. But that Margaret Atwood also finds the Act an assault on Free Speech suggests terms like “authoritarian” and “fascistic” are not out of line. What is most appalling to Candace Malcolm, however, is that the Star article was in fact written by Supriya Dwivedi, a senior adviser to Justin Trudeau. What we have, in other words, is a newspaper more interested in promoting a self-evidently biased approach to an issue, rather than anything that can be considered even vaguely rational or objective. Might “propaganda” be an appropriate term in describing such “journalism”? Is the mainstream media’s obvious “progressive” bias, like the Online Harms Act, not inherently antipathetic to Freedom of Thought and Speech? Indeed might not the contemporary Left be accused of the very fascistic tendencies Ken Hardie hypocritically ascribed to Pierre Poilievre and all of Canada’s “conservatives”?
In the days before the 2020 U.S. election, various online platforms and media outlets banished the breaking story of Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop. The story which might very well have cost his father the presidency, has since been proven to be true.
Republican complaints that the extremely lax protocols governing mail-in balloting were obviously conducive to widespread voter fraud, were denounced by both Democrats and their media minions as a racially motivated attempt to suppress the Black vote. Since 2020, the courts of multiple states have ruled that the Republicans were in fact justified in their suspicions.
Joe Biden repeatedly said he had nothing to do with his son’s shady business dealings. Substantial evidence shows he was brazenly lying, yet my “liberal” friends know nothing of this story because the mainstream media, while going into convulsions every time Trump hiccups, has devoted very little time or energy to exposing it.
Trump’s border wall was widely denounced as racially motivated prior to the 2020 election. Four years later Democrats in multiple “sanctuary” cities and states are whining about the problems caused by the chaotic influx of millions of illegal aliens. Was the mainstream media’s loathing for Trump, however understandable given his personality, a valid reason for its failure to conduct a rational assessment of his policies when he was president, or was it in fact the product of an ideological bias which reduces everything it publishes to little more than propaganda?
The “conservative” pundits I admire deal in Reason and Common Sense. That certain disreputable groups and individuals hijack their observations in support of their racism, misogyny or homophobia, has led the sanctimonious Left to assert that “conservatism” is therefore implicitly racist, misogynist and homophobic. This is demonstrably untrue. But one need not cite demented extremists in attempting to expose the degeneracy of the contemporary Left, because it is its Mainstream Elected officials and their various Mainstream Media allies who are in fact guilty on a daily basis of dishonesty, hypocrisy, childish name-calling and ultimately a disdain for Democracy itself.
Unlike Ken Hardie, I would never dream of comparing today’s “liberals” to Nazis, the most murderous monsters of the 20th Century. But his use of the term “propaganda,” ironically, defines most everything spewed by those of his world-view, one which has more in common with religious fanaticism than anything warranting the term “rational.” The few examples I cited above of the Left’s tendency to “doctor” the truth in support of its agenda, in no way reflect the extent to which it has poisoned political discourse here in the West by spreading the Lie that the way it sees the world is the one and only way. It is a recipe for Tyranny, for travesties such as Bill C-63 which, while attempting to stifle Free Speech, is hypocritically proffered by a government claiming to defend our Democracy! It is a recipe for the sort of dementia which led the mainstream press in 2020 to remain relatively quiet as the warriors of BLM inflicted over two billion dollars in damages on urban America because, you know, the members of visible minorities are never wrong about anything.