Loading ...CANADIAN POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Again : Spencer Fernando
Since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7th, some very disturbing things have been revealed about the Canadian political left, and the left in much of the Western world.
“For many years, the left has cast itself as the defenders of all minorities. They called themselves ‘anti-fascists,’ and ‘anti-racists.’
They regularly demonized politicians like Pierre Poilievre – who is well within the Canadian political norm – claiming he had some sort of hidden agenda that would result in an assault on the rights and freedoms of Canadians.
They also promoted themselves as the advocates of ‘trusting the science,’ and putting ‘objectivity’ ahead of ‘superstition.’
They were – in their own telling – the defenders of the modern progressive world.
But then, after Hamas terrorists unleashed their horrific attack on Israel, much of the left has been revealed as utter frauds.”
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This is a snip from the article : Fascinating Framing of the present situation IMHO
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This is in fact something that has been aptly described as ‘Islamo-leftism’. Here’s how it was described on Wikipedia:
“French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has said that Islamo-leftism was “chiefly” conceived by British Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Understanding the term as “the fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism,”[7] Bruckner posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam’s potential for fomenting societal unrest, they promote tactical, temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties. According to Bruckner, leftist adherents of Third-Worldism hope to use Islamism as a “battering-ram” to bring about the downfall of free-market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights, in particular of women’s rights, as an acceptable trade-off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism. Bruckner contends that Islamists, for their part, pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism, neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the “totalitarian theocracy” of Islamist government.[7][8] The Libération essay on the origins of the term said that several commentators linked the origins of the term to former SWP Central Committee member Chris Harman and to the foundation of the Respect Party and George Galloway.[3]”
This has been also referred to as the “red-green alliance,” with red denoting the socialist left and green denoting the radical Islamists.
Clearly, this is what we are seeing in Canada and across the Western world
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As we know, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that can really be seen as an example of ‘Western Civilization.’
In a logical world, the left would be quite supportive of Israel – at least relative to Israel’s enemies.
Israel has a large progressive movement. They often elect left-wing leaders. Many parts of Israel – like Tel Aviv – are progressive bastions. The country has a diverse and open press that challenges the government, political debate in the country is alive and well, minorities – like the 25% of Israeli’s who are Arab – have equal rights and are represented in the Israeli Parliament and the Supreme Court, Women’s rights are protected, religious freedom is protected, and Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is relatively open and accepting of LGBT people.
But if the left has shown anything since October 7th, it’s that they aren’t logical.
Instead, they have filtered everything through the ‘oppressor’ vs ‘oppressed’ worldview, lumped every successful civilization into the ‘oppressor’ category, and then chosen to side with those who are supposedly ‘oppressed,’ even when those ‘oppressed’ individuals happen to be the most regressive, violent, and anti-Semitic groups on Earth.
Thus, the Canadian left now finds itself – completely by its own choice – siding with Islamist extremists who oppose everything the left claimed to believe.
What this reveals of course is that the left has been lying about much of what they claimed to belief.
If the left was willing to throw out all their stated beliefs to ‘seize the opportunity’ to spread rampant anti-Semitism and try to demonize the entire foundation of the Western world by siding with the enemies of the West, then it means the left only believes in anti-Semitism and weakening the West, and that all their other stated views were just a cover for this.
That’s what has been made clear by both the NDP – who have done nothing as their MPs and party members attend rallies organized by vile anti-Semites in Canada, and former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who failed to call Hamas a terrorist organization despite being given 17 chances to do so in a recent interview.
All the ‘progressivism’ just goes out the window.
This also destroys the ‘follow the science’ claims of the left.
Radical Islamists are among the most vehement opponents of free thought and free scientific inquiry. The whole ideology is based on trying to return the world to a much more primitive, much more violent, and much less enlightened state.
What we are seeing isn’t just some sort of odd accident or a random ‘error’ by the left.
This is in fact something that has been aptly described as ‘Islamo-leftism’. Here’s how it was described on Wikipedia:
“French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has said that Islamo-leftism was “chiefly” conceived by British Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Understanding the term as “the fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism,”[7] Bruckner posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam’s potential for fomenting societal unrest, they promote tactical, temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties. According to Bruckner, leftist adherents of Third-Worldism hope to use Islamism as a “battering-ram” to bring about the downfall of free-market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights, in particular of women’s rights, as an acceptable trade-off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism. Bruckner contends that Islamists, for their part, pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism, neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the “totalitarian theocracy” of Islamist government.[7][8] The Libération essay on the origins of the term said that several commentators linked the origins of the term to former SWP Central Committee member Chris Harman and to the foundation of the Respect Party and George Galloway.[3]”
This has been also referred to as the “red-green alliance,” with red denoting the socialist left and green denoting the radical Islamists.
Clearly, this is what we are seeing in Canada and across the Western world.
And this is where we get to the realignment that may begin to take place.
There are people of good faith on the left, people who really believed they were part of a movement that was focused on shaving off the rough edges of capitalism while retaining significant economic freedom, thought they really were about defending democracy and protecting minorities, and really believed scientific progress was something worth standing up for. They also likely assumed – given that the left called themselves anti-fascists – and given that the fascists of the 1930’s and 1940’s committed genocide against Jewish People – that the modern left would be supportive of the Jewish community and would oppose radical Islamist anti-Semites.
Many of those people are now finding themselves having to reassess everything they believed.
You can see it happening on Twitter, as people who thought themselves to be leftists are struggling with where to go from here.
And this is where a real political realignment could happen.
Nearly every issue, even things like budget deficits, taxes, spending priorities, etc., pale in comparison to the need to fight against the rise of anti-Semitism and stop radical extremists from tearing down the Western world.
There are surely many leftists who are starting to realize that Pierre Poilievre’s opposition to the carbon tax is less of a dealbreaker than Jagmeet Singh and his MP’s pushing a narrative that is disturbingly like Hamas’ propaganda claims.
And so, as the need to fight against anti-Semitism becomes more and more clear, and as the attack on the Western world from within becomes more and more aggressive, we could see the left split apart entirely, and could even see the reasonable leftists become much more amenable to the Conservative Party.
This would not be a surprise, as it has happened before.
Many of the most-staunch Conservative anti-Communists of the Cold War were people who had started out as leftists, only to recoil in horror once they understood what Communism resulted in when put into practice.
I suspect something similar will begin to happen as the dangerous ‘red-green alliance’ deepens.