Commentary Signs abound that Canada’s media-politico class is losing, however temporarily, its collective mind. The signs come daily, often hourly. Or in the immortal words of Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “The cheese is slipping off the cracker.” That would be the same Doug Ford who just declared a “state of emergency” to deal with a few hundred big rig truckers blocking a key Canada-U.S. border crossing in his province. Some cheese. Some cracker. Ford, and the other media-politicos ki-yiiiing that the truckers’ protest risks “wrecking the economy,” seem to be under some quasi-hallucinatory spell that casts the truckers protesting as the source of the problem. In reality, the truckers are protesting because they have a problem to protest. Short of mass psychiatric intervention for our approaching-delusional-liftoff leaders, maybe what we need is for the Office of Clear-Eyed Understanding of Cause and Effect to restore a sane distinction between symptom and …
Trucker Protests: The Deeper Problem Is Canada’s Entrenched and Divisive Media-Politico Class
February 12, 2022
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