What happens when alleged democracies vote for tyranny?

© 2022 Peter Free

 

17 February 2022

 

 

Is it tyrants' fault that people are so easily enslaved?

 

Probably not.

 

 

Yesterday, I highlighted . . .

 

. . . Australian and Canadian willingness to goose-step their ways to Big Brother conformity.

 

Witness, for instance, the following summarizing nuggets taken from a (perhaps legitimate) Maru public opinion poll.

 

The questionnaire probed Canadian opinion regarding Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's plunge into tyranny — via his use of Canada's never-before-implemented Emergencies Act.

 

The Act essentially gives the Prime Minister authority to employ martial law, as well as seize individual citizen's bank accounts and money supply.

 

Evidently, Canadians love this kind of subjugation:

 

 

a vast majority (82%) say that there is no way this protesting should have gone on as long as it has

 

a majority (67%) believe that it's time to clear out the protesters in Ottawa, even if it means people who will not leave may get hurt, or worse

 

half (50%) say they’re proud of the way the police have handled the situation with the protesters

 

a majority (71%) believe Canada is an international embarrassment for not being

able to run its own country

 

a majority (54%) say they’re ashamed to be a Canadian because of how their

politicians have let these protests get out of hand

 

a majority (68%) say that regardless of political stripe, the politicians who have

contributed to or supported these protests should be voted out of office

 

a majority (56%) believe that while the premiers may say that it was time to lower COVID related restrictions, all they’ve done is caved in to the protesters and given them what they wanted

 

one-third (32%) are partial to taking up violent actions to protect their fundamental Canadian values

 

© 2022 Maru Public Opinion, The Emergencies Act, marugroup.net (17 February 2022) (PDF page 1)

 

 

Canadians of stouter liberty-loving heart . . .

 

. . . are, proportionately, quite few:

 

 

Those most likely to oppose (34%) the bringing in of the Act can be found in Alberta (49%),

 

followed by those living in Manitoba/Saskatchewan (43%), Ontario (35%),

Québec (28%) and Atlantic Canada (28%), and British Columbia (25%).

 

© 2022 Maru Public Opinion, The Emergencies Act, marugroup.net (17 February 2022) (PDF page 2)

 

 

Ouch

 

These poll results confirm Glenn Greenwald's observation that:

 

 

Authoritarianism is often popular.

 

Rights exist to protect minority opinions and minority rights. They're never needed to protect majorities. Authoritarian leaders around the world are elected and popular.

 

The popularity of authoritarianism doesn't make it less menacing: more so.

 

 

That raises the question . . .

 

. . . as to whether liberty-supporters should want to live among populations of the easily fleeced.

 

In my own view, the majority of Canadians — and presumably Australians, given their predominantly placid acceptance of Australia's own COVID autocracy — should (ideally) be shipped off to China.

 

There, they could enthusiastically participate in the PRC's social credit system. Where groveling compliance and virtue-signaling reach celebratory heights.

 

Indeed, in the People's Republic, one would not need opinion polls anymore.

 

Just do whatever Authority tells one to. Welcome the resulting peace of mind. And put humanity's (apparently unnecessarily evolved) gray matter into full sleep mode.

 

 

Geographic relocation of the voluntarily-preyed-upon to China . . .

 

. . . would leave a much more expansive range for the more stoutly constituted rest of us.

 

Tripping over vacuously indolent (and pellet-pooping) sheep would be a thing of the past.

 

We wolves could run unimpeded distances with brisk wind in our ears.

 

 

There is the darker philosophical question here, also

 

If being sheep-like characterizes most of humanity, why should (or would) we be angry with wolves?

 

I have no answer to that. Which is why, I think, Oligarchs can realistically defend their Economic Class's purely selfish motivations.

 

Sheep, after all, were bred to feed wool mills and table.

 

Might as well use those (preponderantly dim and naturally cowardly) creatures for those purposes.

 

 

The moral? — Fleece a human-sheep today?

 

My wolfish nature appears to be emerging. Canadian, Australian and American sheep-people get no sympathy from me.

 

We Liberty-upholders would be better off (a) without them or (b) preying upon them.

 

We can conclude that a liberty-founded democracy fails of its own sheep-human nature.

 

Cowards and fools do not (and cannot) stay free.