Why do I call this channel Philosophy for
Philistines and Politics for Plebians? It is my own self-styled homage to
Thomas Paine whose ideas are all the more valid 250 years after his ideas first
entered public discourse. Paine wrote on the nature of peace, order and good
government. He was a philosopher for the common man and since I am about as
common as a church mouse, it behoves me to speak and write in plain language
about the necessity of honest, and transparent government. Something which is
lamentably lacking today on both sides of the aisle as our political class and
bureaucracy come under greater influence from globalist forces eroding away at
our national sovereignty and economic well-being. This is the reason for my
most frequent assertion on this channel, namely that there cannot be a
political solution to a moral, philosophical, and spiritual crisis.
Thomas Paine was a plain talking, big thinking
common man - self-educated in matters of science, philosophy, activism, and
political theory. His pamphlets and books inspired ordinary people throughout
the colonies of America to stand up for their rights and throw off the yoke of
British domination. Soon after, these books were smuggled into France, where
they inspired the Third Estate to agitate for the guarantee of their natural
rights. Eventually, this grass roots activism would lead to the overthrow of
the French Monarchy in the French Revolution, where Paine would be granted
honorary citizenship, a seat in its parliament and a voice in the drafting of the
French Republic's constitution. He would eventually go on to write on many
issues of social justice, including abolition, universal suffrage, aged care,
education, welfare, healthcare, and anti-corruption in government. This
occasionally made him a target of powerful people, and despite his heroic
status, he was eventually marginalised and forgotten. Overshadowed by the major
players who used his tireless campaigning to their advantage, Paine died in
obscurity and poverty, having transformed the landscape of democracy across
three continents, and was the source of many of our greatest achievements in
civil discourse and progress over the last 250 years. And since I lack Paine’s
extreme wit and vast philosophical influence in my own small way at least I must
attempt to make others think about our most invaluable heritage, that of
liberty under law.
But what has happened to our liberty and why have
those who have the gall to call themselves “liberal” so betrayed the heritage
of their own party which was founded on Paine’s liberal principles? The LPC
government not only cannot stop lying but is consistently creating new lies
which contradict the previous lies its MPs told us in their official capacity
as our elected public servants. Moreover, when we notice and speak out about
their damnable lies they label us "conspiracy theorists" and
"hate mongers". This government has become so pathologically corrupt
and out of control that only an act of Divine providence and mercy could
possibly deliver this nation from their wicked perversion of good governance.
They answer to no man, they act as though they're above the law, the courts can
no longer hold them accountable, they refuse to answer questions directed to
them by the opposition, and by doing so they've made an utter mockery of the
Canadians whom they swore to serve. And as vilely they've weaponized the press
against the nation's interests while forcing the citizen to assume the cost of
being propagandized. We are being governed by Quislings who are deserving of
Quisling's fate.
In an article dated Nov 4th, 2022,
in the National Post by Terence Corcoran entitled, “Chrystia Freeland brings
Chinese-capitalism to Ottawa: Missing in Ottawa’s economic update is
recognition of the ideological flip that’s taking place”
Corcoran wrote, "The build-up to
Thursday’s economic statement from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been
underway for some time, so it should be no surprise the Trudeau Liberal machine
is promoting an expanded role for Big Government in the Canadian economy. What
Canada needs, said Freeland in a recent speech to the Alberta Federation of
Labour, is “a government with a real muscular industrial policy” to take on the
low growth and high inflation challenges she said were created by the pandemic
and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and “a more coercive China.”
I've been stating this for years, Canada is rapidly
developing a totally state-run Marxist economy. If you're so damn stupid not to
be terrified of this ongoing takedown of a free economy, then here's proof
COVID wasn't what ought to have frightened you rather it was what Global
leaders used COVID to prepare the West for, a complete state-run Neo-Marxist
economy.
In an article dated Nov 3rd, 2022, in
the National Post by Lorrie Goldstein entitled, “Taxpayers to pay billions
subsidizing green energy investors”
Lorrie wrote, “The Trudeau government is going
to spend billions of taxpayers’ dollars subsidizing risky investments in green
energy projects in order to compete for business with the United States. That
was the reality, as opposed to the rhetoric, contained in Finance Minister
Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic statement on Thursday.
With
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government having already spent more than $100
billion on climate change and environmental initiatives since coming into power
in 2015, the fall mini-budget announced new taxpayer-funded measures to promote
green energy, plus more details of previously announced programs.
Among them:
·
A $15 billion Canada Growth
Fund, which will subsidize private-sector investors financing clean energy
projects, by insulating them from fluctuations in carbon pricing caused by
government regulations. It will also subsidize projects that are at the pilot
project level of development, meaning they carry an advanced risk of being able
to turn a profit.
·
An $8 billion Net Zero
Accelerator program to subsidize private sector investments in electric vehicle
and EV battery production.
·
Government tax credits for
green energy projects costing $6.7 billion over five years starting in 2023,
plus a separate program for the development of hydrogen technology.
·
A $3.8 billion program to
implement a strategy for mining critical minerals in Canada that are necessary
for producing electric vehicle batteries, as well as to facilitate the assembly
of electric vehicles.
·
A $250 million expenditure
over five years starting in 2023 to train 15,000 unionized workers for green
energy jobs, plus $60 million over three years starting in 2023 to supplement
existing federal, provincial and territorial projects with the same aim.
One of the challenges Canada faces in
attracting green energy investments in competition with the U.S. is that while
Canada has a national carbon tax, the U.S does not.
U.S. President Joe Biden took a no-stick,
all-carrot approach to developing green energy in his Inflation Reduction Act
passed by Congress in April, which is why Canada has to compete with the
numerous financial incentives in the U.S. to promote clean energy.
That means Biden’s plan doesn’t have what
economic experts say is the most efficient way of reducing greenhouse gas
emissions — a national carbon tax — even though without a carbon tax, the U.S.
surpassed its 2020 emission reduction target, the same one Canada failed to
meet.”
Paine once asserted, “It is the duty of every
man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.”,
and “The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and
beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures.
Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of
cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” With that in mind this
morning my wife had the following thoughts on the utter corruption of our
current self-serving political class, “How did we get here? The explanation is
multi-faceted but our path to ruin has gone something like this:
1. The abandonment of God
2. Replace of faith in Divine order with a belief
in total State control
3. Accepting immigration from cultures with
whom we have little to nothing in common thereby undermining our shared cultural
social contract
4. Which results in the collectivist mindset of
socialism replacing the glue of a shared heritage
5. Hatred of competence, individualism, and an entrepreneurial
mindset
Anne-Siri asserted that all five facets are connected,
with each a declension leading to the undermining of the next virtue listed. The
common denominator is the rejection of our own moral responsibility to God
first, then to our fellows, since only then can we properly care for the
natural world around us. It is only when our communities are anchored in a moral,
just, and prosperous society with each individual voluntarily assuming their responsibility
to God and their fellows that we will not constantly be fighting to keep the
wolves at bay. Our elite class doesn’t care for the planet, if they did, they
would permit us to prosper sufficiently such that we all will be stewards of the
planet without worrying about how to keep warm, fed, and have a roof over our
heads. Because that is what the ruling class is doing, impoverishing humanity so
that they can live in unentitled wealth. This winter Europe is facing abysmal energy
and food shortages due to the unworkable green energy policies of globalist
minded governments who obviously have torn a page out of the same playbook. I
have a gut feeling that Paine’s words are even more appropriate today. 250
years ago, they were delivered at a time when society was being tyrannised by
an elite class who were about to be overthrown by force, and I suspect people
will soon once again say no to tyranny!
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