Why I'm Running in this Provincial Election for New Blue

 

In 1995, Mike Harris brought Ontario what he called a “Common Sense revolution.”

Things have gone in the wrong direction, since Mike Harris left. 

Today, what we need, it seems, is a sanity revolution.

It is a clown world. 

Today we are told men can become women, equality is discrimination, peaceful protests are illegal, and free speech is oppression.

Like many of you, I have not long thought of myself as a conservative. I believe in human equality and human rights. When did that become necessarily conservative? When did that become “far right”?

But everything has been pushed to the margin now except Marxism, critical theory, and postmodernism. 

Marxism is a crackpot theory disproven by about 1900. Yet we have four parties all agreeing on enforcing the teaching of critical theory in the schools—a Marxist dogma. How did this happen?

It has happened because a small group is controlling the discussion. A Family Compact, to use a term out of Ontario history. It is only too like the Family Compact against which we rose in the 1830s.

This is a small group of people who all go to the same cocktail parties. They control a larger group through hope of joining or fear of being excluded from this “in group.” It’s all a lot like high school. 

This larger group controls a yet larger group that fears losing their job, their family, their reputation, their livelihood. Yeah, it’s all a lot like high school. Except with lives and careers at stake.

They have learned to control the discussion through controlling the schools, the media, the professions, the nomination meetings and leadership contests, the established parties. They control the Overton window, the window of what can and cannot be said.

But here’s the good news. 

Improved communications technology threatens their power. We saw how the gatekeepers were bypassed in the Arab Spring. We saw how they were bypassed and blindsided by the Freedom convoy.

As a result, they are getting scared. I would say they are getting hysterical. They are overreaching, and demanding we endorse impossible things. The masks are coming off, the iron fist is coming down. 

All we need now is to get the word out, to speak the truth loud in the public square, and soon they will be gone.

That’s why I’m with New Blue.