When Power Skews to the Greater Evil
Examining the subversion of the West by Radical Islam
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“For years, a virulent strain of antisemitism has been coursing through Canada’s liberal-left bloodstream, in the leadership of public sector unions, federally-subsidized ‘social justice’ networks, the social sciences and humanities faculties of Canada’s most prestigious universities, and the entire milieu of avant garde activism.”1
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To begin, I’d like to compare the observation quoted above, which was made by the Canadian journalist Terry Glavin in the pages of The Real Story, with another relevant reference to Canada and key Glavin incite published in the National Post shortly after Hamas massacred over 1200 Israelis in Southern Israel on October 7, 2023:
“A defining feature of the thing is a radical-chic antisemitism that masquerades in the guise of ‘left-wing’ anti-Zionism… In megaphone after megaphone in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton and Vancouver, speaker after speaker expressed happiness, glee and utter delight with what Hamas had done.”2
The next few pieces I will publish here will not just concern the existential topic of Canada and its leftwing anti-Westernism (including its accompanying insincere DEI-derived suicidal empathy), and the hostile foreign infiltrators hellbent on the destruction of Western culture, but will also reassure those who have grown weary of the left that their weariness is indeed warranted. Their intuition and instincts are trying to alert them to something, and I suggest that they might consider listening to themselves. Many who feel this left-centric enervation have expressed a similar feeling of political homelessness. They are far from alone, although many do feel isolated. I am also a recovering lefty, so I get it.
Over the last few years I have re-examined much of contemporary and “postmodern” history. During this process I have tried to remember what I thought fifteen to twenty-five years ago about major historical events and world affairs and why I identified with the left from the beginning of my political awareness. Another interesting question I’ve posed is why did it take so long for me to catch on to the fact that, as heavily steeped in the progressive milieu as I was, and even though I took an innate goodness for granted, I was not actually on side with the good guys. Essentially, through my reverence of such thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal and others, and because the radical and romantic leftist image seemed to fit with the creative artist persona I was so dedicated to projecting, it never occurred to me that the political right was anything more than an abstract grouping of the world's most powerful greedy capitalist pigs who were so drunk on their own rapacity and materialism, and so dumb and selfish and thoughtless, that if not stopped, would destroy the planet before consolidating their totalitarian grip through the exploitation of nature, markets and the world’s working poor (including the working poor of the West).
The anti-globalism riots in Seattle in the late 1990s made sense to me. And the anti-war movement after 9/11, the NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, and the American led invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s also made sense to me. The progressive narrative of American global imperialism and neo-liberal capitalist exploitation was thoroughly assimilated into my thinking. I took this analysis as a given. However, there were moments of clarity where I sensed a strange disturbance in the force. For example, something did not sit right about what I was seeing in the mainstream media between the years 2001 and 2005? The post-9/11 analysis was lacking in a way that felt uncomfortable. To this day I still can’t quite understand why I persisted in my embrace of the progressive worldview – which meant of course being one who embraces what Thomas Sowell called the unconstrained social vision (long before I knew what that was). This regrettably was who I was in my young adult years. My boisterous and unapologetic exodus from the left would not come until much later, after a period of silent political homelessness, once I had crossed into my forties.
Those initial early reservations which popped into my brainwashed head were not only influenced by my confusion over much of the media coverage in the aftermath of 9/11, but of the confusion I experienced over my own reflexive thoughts. Who was really doing the thinking? For the first time I began to faintly perceive that my own thought patterns might be influenced by ideology which might be reinforced by propaganda. How could that be? How could I really know? It was so hard to form this notion into a cohesive line of analysis. My operating system ran on Chomsky, so yes, I was programmed with the script of Manufactured Consent and new all about propaganda that serves the hegemonic interests of the so-called American global empire, but no, it had not occurred to me that enemies of the West might also use propaganda to convince me that the West was nothing more than the colonizing imperial evil, which I naturally assumed it to be.
The power asymmetry of the existing world order was a major concern of the anti-war movement of the early 2000s. Again, this made perfect sense to me. It never occurred however that the asymmetry might in fact skew towards the lesser evil of global powers. And further, since this notion had not occurred, I was essentially unable to imagine what the world would look like if the balance of global power tipped decisively away from the West. What made this possibility so foreign to my thinking could only have been subversive propaganda which serves the interests of hostile foreign powers, which had hitched itself to the domestic radical anti-Western progressive movement – essentially a common ground consortium of the native far-left and the foreign far-right. I am far from the only one to have realized that they are merely two sides of the same totalitarian coin.
Something else was not sitting right with me: the progressive left’s embrace of anti-Zionism. In fact, what was happening in the early 2000s was a combining of anti-war activism with anti-Zionism. Even though I had half decent knowledge of the Holocaust and of anti-Semitism generally, it took a while for me to see the Western media’s biased selectively concerning what gets reported, and their cruel inversion of the facts, in regards to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Anti-Israel bias in the media, and the way the United Nations and other political bodies held Israel to impossible moral standards that no other nations were held to, slowly began to emerge on my radar.
Sadly this de-indoctrination process is not something most Canadians experience. It is my contention that too many Canadians are at best gullibly empathetic, and at worst, ignorant or uninterested in global affairs (not good for a multicultural society which invites the world's conflicts). Unfortunate becuase Canadians are being conned like no other modern advanced group of Westerners have ever been before. Their country is being taken from them, right before their eyes. They are led to believe it's a good thing, and too many nod along in compliance. Too many are unthinking, apathetic, the types most averse to rocking boats. Too many Canadians refuse to stand up for themselves, because they do not know who they are, and cannot define what their country is. They are not interested. They are the hollow platitude people, the “diversity is our strength” people. If they are even aware that an existential attack is occurring, they have no idea what to defend, not to mention, how one goes about defending something.
I write this not to rub their faces in it (I’m Canadian too!), my hope is that these words may wake up one or two enough that an eyebrow might get raised – actual action is far too much to expect from far too many politely complacent and frustratingly compliant Canadians. They are unlike some of the new-comer Canadians, who together with the the self-loathing leftist progressives, represent foreign threats, take to the streets in protest and make demands (which are always opposed to the interests of Canada). Doesn’t it appear time for a serious pro-Canadian movement that thoroughly drowns out the hateful cacophony of terrorist sympathizer anti-Canadian, anti-American, anti-Israel progressive activists stinking up the streets of major Canadian cities?
My next essay will examine the legacy media's embrace of progressive anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism that were combined in the aftermath of 9/11. A decade after that horrific Islamic terrorist atrocity perpetrated on American soil, protestors from the Occupy Wallstreet movement included those who looked and sounded no different than the Anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian protestors found all over major Canadian cities in 2025. They were captured on video shouting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” See for yourself in the 2012 documentary film Occupy Unmasked.3
The leftwing news media were broadly sympathetic to the Occupy encampments that sprung up in 2011 in 951 cities in 82 countries. The false narrative was pushed that the occupy protests were concerned with economic issues. And further, the occupy protest was falsely branded as a spontaneous organic leftwing populist movement. Major problems with the protests including multiple rapes were ignored or under-reported. The anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Zionism was barely noticed. In truth, the Occupy protests were heavily planned an coordinated by far left community organizers, which included labour unions, who devised their strategy using Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals playbook. There is nothing spontaneous or organic about the machinations of far left social agitators.
The extent to which, over the last two decades, Western mainstream media pushed propagandistic anti-American and anti-Israel progressive ideology is shocking. But it also explains the present anti-Semitic protest movement making life unpleasant and unsafe for Canadian Jews. Re-examining the Canadian media coverage of the first two decades of the 2000s is the subject of my next essay which continues the discussion of Islamic subversion of the West.
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Occupy Unmasked (at the 55 minutes and 16 second mark).
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Canadians today are confused as they watch most Americans trashing the extreme progressivism that took hold of their country, especially after COVID and George Floyd. What to do? We still have a PM and governing party that completely bought into that toxic ideology. What do we do? Most of our journalists still think of clever ways to insult Trump, while writing mush. Our political leaders start waving our flag, after calling the country a genocidal, racist non-country. Will we Canadians actually start thinking for ourselves, or just continuing to think what CBC and clones tell us to think?
A great piece. Principled conservatism is what results when you wake up from woke utopianism. It's an adult cognitive disposition partly because our popular culture and education systems where children first get exposed to ideas have been captured by the utopian left but we must remember that that capture was successful for a reason, and one reason is that utopianism is cognitively facile. This is why most red pill transitions in Western societies go from left to right. It requires breaking out of a deep local minimum that relatively few successfully achieve.