Burn It All Down: The Modern Illiberal Mindset

Before I get into my spiel, a quick comment about the view up here about Trump.

The way I see it, Canada - and specifically Quebec - has no business criticizing Trump. Here's why, and let's keep it simple.

On our books, we have Bill 22, Bill 101, Bill 69, Bill C-16, Islamophobic speech laws and the dreaded notwithstanding clause (seen as a wonderful example of Canadian 'compromise'. Yeh, at the expense of your individual civil liberties).

As far as I know, Trump has not introduced a single law or act that tramples on civil liberties. In fact, Trump never invoked Executive Privilege during the entire Mueller investigation.

The United States of America does not have a single law along the lines of those mentioned above.

These are laws that prevent choice and punish freedom of speech and expression.

How we celebrate this is beyond me.

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Onto other matters focusing on the U.S..

Mueller has resigned.

But not before his own contribution to the illiberalism pushed by the modern Democrat party.

At this point, I'm not even sure I can describe them as progressive. Have you listened to Kmala Harris's platform? It's straight off authoritarianism. It has no hallmarks of liberalism or conservatism. It's just an unseemly and incoherent of 'ideas' designed to further consolidate power into the state.

The word progressive suggests something positive; as moving forward.

Where I sit, the rhetoric employed by the Democrats - and Liberals here - is nothing but. It's regressive. It's premised on one thing and one thing only: Hate of our collective Western heritage.

And it's hated because of their abject ignorance of our history and heritage.

All must be erased, laws protecting victims must be enacted, language must be change, statues destroyed and so on.

The sheer amount of illiberal proposals made in the last three years has been dizzying as it's been depressingly preposterous. From the diminishing of due process, to giving free education and health to illegal citizens, to refusing to secure the border, to wanting to eradicate the Electoral College, to looking to ban speech or curb the Second Amendment to proven failed economic policies to the rise of socialism etc. Heck, let me get to the point, the entire Bill of Rights is problematic for the modern left.

Settle on any idea from Ocasio-Cortez or Sanders for an example. The frightening part is all these ideas are retreads from a time passed. In some cases, they were even put into practice and failed spectacularly bringing mass death and starvation to humanity.

We're at a point where 'taxes' are seen as better than 'charity' as some lawyer on Twitter - the social media scourge - asserted. Which makes perfect sense to an illiberal collectivist. Such beliefs are natural to them. Happy, successful people give more - and they tend to be conservative or libertarian. Angry, envious people prefer taxes because it's a passive-aggressive approach to stealing to pay for their schemes they would not pay out of their own pockets. Just look at the entire 'victimhood' narrative currently being played out before our eyes. All created from an illiberal mind set.

They're all over the place on TV and in film. Pick your poison.

So here we are. Bowing before the glorification of the state asking for more taxes to enslave us.

Truly astonishing.

The Mueller investigation was pure evil because it was a direct attack on our most cherished and celebrated concepts of due process and innocent until proven guilty to which we all benefit from.

An investigation that ruined reputations and lives for deeds that were the rule rather than the exception in politics. One can wonder were these people that much worse than what we now know about what Hilary and Obama (and Holder and Rice and a host of other swamp creatures) were up to?

Can we say with a straight face that their actions were worse than, say, drone killing American citizens without due process? Submitting American power to international treaties? To destabilizing Libya helps to foster a migrant crisis to which Europe is still reeling from? From passing sensitive information on an unsecured private email server? Gun running through Fast & Furious in Mexico? Cynically and without a shred of proof pinning the Benghazi attack on a video to which its creator was put in jail? By using the bureaucratic agency apparatus to squash dissenting views (ie the IRS) or NSA to spy on Americans who committed no crime as well as the Trump campaign? But to name a precious incredible few examples.

Since this banana republic, partisan side-show, the average person probably now believes 'yeh well just because they couldn't prove Trump (colluded or whatever direction the investigation was spinning) doesn't mean he didn't do it'.

Here's a perfect explanation why this 'investigation' was poison to American institutions and by extension our Western concepts of legal wisdom established since the days of Rome.

Mueller: “Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment . . . . this report does not exonerate the President.”

Wow. Sounds like Mueller cheered for the Inquisitors back in the day. 

“If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so.” Mueller

— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) May 29, 2019

That’s not how it works in America. Investigators are supposed to look for evidence that a crime was committed, and, if they don’t find enough to contend that a crime was a committed, they are supposed to say “We didn’t find enough to contend that a crime was committed.” They are not supposed to look for evidence that a crime was not committed and then say, “We couldn’t find evidence of innocence.”

I understand that Mueller was in an odd position. I understand, too, that this wasn’t a criminal trial. But I don’t think those norms are rendered any less important by those facts. By asking the executive to investigate itself, it was guaranteed — yes, guaranteed — that we’d have a fight over “obstruction of justice.” For the architect of that investigation to keep saying “We aren’t exonerating our target” is extraordinary. Innocence is the default position in this country. If a person doesn’t have enough evidence that someone committed a crime to contend that a crime was committed, he is obliged to presume his innocence. “Not exonerated” is not a standard in our system, and it shouldn’t be one in our culture, either.

And that's how you erode trust in institutions. 

It would be interesting to see if an investigation will be launched into who exactly okayed this mess to begin with if Americans are serious about restoring some dignity and sanity to the legal process. This is not a defence of Trump. This is a defense of the system. 

But the left - Democrats and Liberals here - have taken to attacking established and time honored concepts such as 'innocent until proven guilty' as well as functional rules of governance never before questioned - like the electoral college - for political expediency. Moreover, they went ballistic when they said Trump wouldn't 'abide by the results' (when he said he'd have to look at it at that point. He never said he would ignore it outright) but all they've done is not accept the results of 2016 for 2 1/2 years now and Mueller was just a part of that 'we don't abide' hysterical backlash.

The more they squawk about 'end of democracy' the more they hasten its fall by their own behaviour and action.

There's no question in my mind the modern left are the root of all this disingenuous angst and stupidity. All of it.

So much so, moderates have been forced into picking a side be it on the so-called populist right or the far left as we see across Europe. Is this on the horizon in North America? We already see the flair in the air with the establishment of the People's Party under Maxime Bernier in Canada. 

These people don't care about the Republic in the USA anymore they care about democracy here in Canada.

They want a soft dictatorship ruled by elites. 

It's a big power grab for its own sake and we ain't invited.

Don't be made a fool.

Reject them. 

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Behold the buffoons in all their unprincipled, inglorious lamentations:



Democrats (after loss): We must switch to popular vote because democracy and slavery!
Also Democrats (after win): We must keep the electoral college because Republic! People who want pop. vote are sore losers!

All because they lost to....Trump.