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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Was just watching some clips from parliament yesterday.
Some moron idiot MP from AB was wondering why they are invoking this emergency act to solve a parking problem! lol
How effing out of touch are these right wing deplorables? haha
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I'm uneasy about these people that are feeling outraged and defensive from their homes half the country away over a movement led by a few radical right wingers from the prairies that guzzled money from the public and encouraged (without outright admitting it) the Canadian version of last year's capitol siege, using trucker support as their trojan horse to try to accomplish it.
If you think Trudeau is the only big baddie in all of this then you're clearly not observing your "own people" with the same lens of scrutiny. For many I don't think they realize that the people they're rooting on also represent the kind of scum that they've previously condemned in other circumstances around the globe that didn't hit as close to home.
I think because it's an issue that effects us directly, many people are more prone to not seeing what it is they are advocating for when they jumped behind the convoy. Objectivity is more sorely lacking in this day and age than ever before with such sensationalism that runs rampant on the internet, using words such as freedom to hook people from an emotional standpoint. People also have a hard time admitting when they're being hypocritical or made a mistake in judgement in this day and age. It's more convenient to overlook the red flags that are now popping out left and right and continue to support the side they put their stake in for and then brush it under the rug years down the road when they're condemning a similar movement in another country because it's easier to see from afar as having seditious intentions.
The wisest people never get caught up in movements like this at a moment's notice. They take their time to analyze it for what it is and question all sides of the issues, and even then, they recognize the rights and wrongs committed by both parties (and hell, I don't think Trudeau and the government handled this well in the early stages).
The more you're prone to commit to a cause when you don't even know the people that are behind it, nor have vetted them to understand their full intentions, the less objectively you are seeing the world and the more senseless you're being by pushing all your chips in.
The movement was an emotional thing for many involved in it, not an intellectual one. The problem with emotions riding that high, is it involves the brain and rational thought less and less as it escalates.
If you can't recognize the wrong doings of something you've pledged your support to when it's presented to you clear as day, I'm afraid that yes, you've lost touch with reason and reality.