Resurrections

 

Easter Sunday reminds us that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn. 

We are in a dark time, but there are recent signs of hope.

Pierre Poilievre is drawing Trump-like crowds. 

In order to overtake Poilievre’s support with the base, Jean Charest and Patrick Brown would have to sign up a large number of new members. Brown had done this with success in the past. But it looks as though this is not going to happen. It is Poilievre who seems to be drawing people into the party. 

Why would there be great enthusiasm to support a candidate who represented positions similar to the Liberals? Why not just support the Liberals?

Poilievre’s crowds also confirm my sense that next election will be a change election. People are angry and want to throw the rascals out. Poilievre is an ideal candidate for that mood.

The Freedom Convoy woke a lot of people up. A lot of people found one another, and discovered many others were thinking as they do. Now Poilievre may be able to channel that into political change.

In the US, there is Elon Musk’s attempt at a hostile takeover of Twitter. Win or lose, at least it shows there is someone with power who wants to defend free speech. The cathedral is not monolithic.  It also exposes the power elite—they are apparently prepared to sacrifice the interests of their shareholders and the company to preserve their political power. Perhaps people will start to notice.

As the left has been demanding more radical positions, and deliberately throwing people off their bandwagon—Tulsi Gabbard, Jimmy Dore, Tim Poole, Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, Bill Maher, and on and on—they have inevitably been reducing themselves to a smaller voice among commentators. It has become safer and easier for their opponents to speak up. There has to be a tipping point, and we may be there.

Past duplicity is getting exposed: the Hunter Biden laptop, the Steele dossier and the Russian collusion deception. The supposed Whitmer kidnapping plot; January 6 suspects are getting acquitted; the false accusations against Rittenhouse; the high-profile fakery of Jussie Smollett. Sooner or later, the judgement of The Boy Who Cried Wolf must be tripped.

Current polls suggest a Republican landslide in the midterms.

We also cannot ignore the miracle in the Ukraine. We thought Russia to be vastly more powerful. One of our gravest fears is beginning to look like smoke and mirrors.

Perhaps China as well? In Shanghai, the situation looks hellish; but this may also be the spark to set off a general revolt and end the CCP’s dominance there.

COVID restrictions are coming down. The usual suspects had been telling us that, with Omicron, things were getting worse. Instead, with natural immunity growing more quickly now, we may be seeing the end of COVID as a pressing concern. The virus may now be the best vaccine.

After two or three terrible years, next year may look better.