Trudeau, Castro, & Naomi Wolf (who is, all too sadly, a Cassandra)

 Amici,

Can Justin Trudeau really turn Canada into a dictatorship?

The "Huff-Po", an online Leftist magazine, actually had a writer who in late 2014 predicted Trudeau would do just that. https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/trudeau-dictator_b_6314494

It would seem unlikely, however, because Trudeau is such a lightweight, especially compared to his infamous father, Fidel Castro. Fidel was a man's man; he inspired followers to die for him and women jumped into bed with him (like a certain Canadian woman, in fact). Castro, handsome in his youth, stood over six-feet tall, commanded a rebel/revolutionary militia for years in the mountains, took over a country and, when the CIA bestowed the Bay of Pigs fiasco on posterity, Castro was on the battlefield in his own tank, fighting them off. (IIRC, that is.)

Obviously, this northern "Son of Castro" inherited too much from his flaky, wanton, not-mentally-healthy mother.

In such cases as this, however, always look to history's exemplar, Adolf Hitler. What stands out in the Hitlerian story is his political opposition. Hitler himself never changed his goals, and rarely his tactics. Certainly possessed, definitely a sociopath, Hitler was not too "flexible." What DID change was the quality of the opposition he faced. In the 1920s, he faced strong opposition and got nowhere (well, at one point, actually jail); yet when he faced weak and divided opposition in the 1930s, he triumphed.

This lesson applies closely to Trudeau (and the Democrats/BLM/Antifa in the U.S.). Will he meet strong opposition among Canada's politicians or will he walk over them? He seems to be walking over Parliament, and in general, half the Parliament and half the general population (seem to, right now, at least) want him to walk over them. So, we'll see.

As for HOW he'll triumph, and since I can't really say this better myself, I refer you-all to the (former?) Leftist – a mild, old-style "Liberal", one with a conscience – Naomi Wolf. She channels the spirit of Cassandra here in her Substact blog.

An excerpt:

The world has watched, in pain, as images of police violence from Ottawa, and of a bid for Canadian tyranny (that I would ever write those words!) are flashed around the world.

As usual, I hate to be Cassandra; but the chessboard ahead is all too clear. On Feb 12, 2022, I warned, during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom, that we all must all now brace for a period during which the powers that now clearly seek to enslave our planet, and subdue our human species, will be broadcasting scenes of civil society mayhem, and of shocking violence against protesters.

I also predicted that there would be food shortages and other economic harms that would be blamed on the protesting truckers, and I warned too that people should print out their bank and any liquid asset records, as there would be cyberattacks on financial institutions and the freezing of accounts. All of that, of course, took place in the week that followed.

I recently received a kind note on social media thanking me for my bulletins about the near future as it helped people, the writer explained, to stave off shock and disorientation. I have often spoken about how tyrants rely on just these effects of shock and disorientation to “tenderize” a targeted population, so I will keep alerting you all to the near future, as unpleasant as that task can be.

So in this essay I wish to explain, especially to Canadians, what martial law really is, and how very dangerous it is, since many leaders there, especially Parliamentarians, appear to be in the treacherous “hangover” state of thinking that they still inhabit the old world that died when Justin Trudeau declared emergency law. I also wish to warn what happens historically at this moment in the decline of a formerly democratic nation, and what the murder of Canadian democracy — at least for now — means to the rest of the world.

Parliamentarians in Canada do not seem to understand that now their former colleague, Justin Trudeau, can arrest not just truckers, whose lawful protest has been declared illegal, but also the Parliamentarians themselves. This is, sadly, the next step in this kind of drama, historically. It is an extraordinarily dangerous sign that Parliament is not seated. When the Australian Parliament was suspended, by the time they reconvened, their powers had been dramatically curtailed. Tyrants seek to normalize the convening of Parliaments as “optional” or to suspend normal Parliamentary processes long enough to hollow out a legislative body’s deliberative powers, and to ensure that when and if a Parliament (or a Congress, for that matter) meets again, it will be merely a ceremonial assembly.

Parliamentarians in Canada also do not seem to understand that “dictator” is no longer rhetorical. A member of Parliament was shushed when he cried out this epithet, but the fact is that this is not a slur at this point. Justin Trudeau is by definition now in fact a dictator.

At this stage in history, you do not go back to a previous state of civil society order without arrests, though hopefully you can do so without civil war. Historically, when a would-be dictator has reached this point in the suspension of democratic processes and has sought this level of a power grab, his arrests of the opposition’s leaders, on trumped-up charges, come next. Also arrested at this point are labor leaders, outspoken members of the clergy, and independent journalists and editors.

Beware the word “incitement”; the next stage is an edict that casts criticism of what Trudeau is doing, as a crime, or an act of violence.

At this stage in history, too, the identity of the security forces are at issue. Who are these frighteningly gas-masked, uniformed, extremely violent men represented as police in the streets of Ottawa? For that matter, who are the masked, black-uniformed, extremely violent men represented as police beating the protesters in Paris, a week ago?

AnP again: End of excerpt, but read the whole thing.