Happy Freedom Weekend

 

Fireworks from the Detroit-Windsor Freedom Festival

It is perhaps time, on this Dominion Day and Independence Day weekend, freedom’s birthday, to express some gratitude: God is still in his heaven, and the world is not just getting worse. Most notably, we have had several great US Supreme Court rulings as birthday presents, ending systemic racial discrimination in college admissions, restoring freedom of conscience, and killing Biden’s plan to rob from the poor and give to the rich on student loans.

I see much angst online among leftist friends. One points out, incorrectly, that all the judges who opposed the overturning of affirmative action were members of minorities, and those who voted to overturn were from the racial majority. (Kagan is not more obviously a member of a minority than Amy Coney Barret; or Ketanji Brown Jackson than Clarence Thomas). As if, even if true, this showed the ruling was racist. But on the other hand, one would equally expect people who got their positions through racial preferences to support racial preferences. It is racist to suppose that only “white” people can be racist.

But even on the left, something may be happening. RFK Jr. is a beam of sanity appearing unexpectedly on the left horizon. And he is pulling good poll numbers.

In crazy leftist Canada, the deep North, Pierre Poilievre is drawing huge crowds, reminiscent of Trudeaumania generations ago. New Brunswick’s premier is following Alberta’s, it seems, in swerving right.

Things are grim in France—the French police, now a force 45,000 strong, are calling it civil war. Terrible for the moment; but this may kill the delusion of multiculturalism in Europe and across the developed West. It may end the thoughtless “diversity is our strength” mantra.

Diversity is only half of the formula; unity is the other. E pluribus unum. A shared culture is the goal.

Speaking of which, Muslims in North America are protesting against sexual and critical theory indoctrination in the schools, joining with Christian parents. The leftist divide and control multiculturalism idea looks about to fall apart.

The Bud Light boycott has awakened the silent majority that they can do something. And it has awakened the large corporations to the risk of pushing leftist politics. We can see corporations backing away: the NHL, Starbucks.

The Trudeau government’s plan to force web services to pay for linking to Canadian news sites seems to be backfiring on them nicely. They are refusing, as a result, to link to any of the government’s subsidized news sites.

The tide of totalitarianism may still be high, but I think that it has turned.