{"id":76898,"date":"2022-02-03T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76898"},"modified":"2022-02-03T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:49:03","slug":"76898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76898","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Truckers are starting a working-class revolution \u2014 and the left hates it.<\/a><\/p>\n

So we\u2019re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others\u00a0are refusing to follow government orders<\/a>, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there\u2019s no justice, there\u2019s no peace.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the left hates it.<\/p>\n

For more than a century, lefties have talked about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots \u2014\u00a0it was to do what it was told by the \u201cintellectual vanguard\u201d of the left.<\/p>\n

A working-class revolution\u00a0led by<\/em>\u00a0the working class is the left\u2019s worst nightmare because the working class doesn\u2019t want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won\u2019t get a lot of working-class people killed. It\u2019s not excited about gender fluidity, critical race theory, \u201cmodern monetary theory,\u201d foreign adventures and defunding police.<\/p>\n

Worse yet, a huge part of the lefty self-image revolves around feeling superior to the working class and openly expressing disdain for it. One need spend only a few minutes tuning into left media like NPR, CNN or MSNBC to hear the disdain for working-class Americans, inhabitants of \u201cflyover country,\u201d people who live in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n

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The left has vilified the Canadian truckers protestors as Russian agents, Nazis and white supremacists.<\/figcaption>
REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So naturally, the idea that\u00a0those<\/em>\u00a0people might be staging a revolution is intolerable.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why, even as they legitimize and valorize outright rioting and violence by leftist groups, lefties vilify every working-class protest movement, going back before the Tea Party. In Canada, the press even tried to pretend that the thousands of truckers driving to the capital city of Ottawa\u00a0were actually Russian agents<\/a>. When that failed, it fell back on its old standard, calling them fascists, Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists.<\/p>\n

But nobody believes that because it\u2019s as obvious a lie as the claims about Russians. Leftists talk about race because they don\u2019t want people to notice they\u2019ve been waging class war.<\/p>\n

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The left valorized the violent and destructive BLM protests while attacking the working class Canadian truckers\u2019 revolt.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that class war, which has been going on for a couple of decades of working-class stagnation and upper-class prosperity, went into overdrive during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Under COVID, we got \u201clockdowns\u201d in which the laptop class stayed home \u201ckeeping safe\u201d while the working class delivered groceries to their doors. Meatpacking plants, grocery checkout lines and, especially, trucking stayed open, while law firms, universities and media organizations closed their doors and sent staff home to work.<\/p>\n

For a brief period, those non-remote workers were heroes. Even Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told people to thank a trucker for his service. But that didn\u2019t last.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once told Canadians to thank truckers, now that they are revolting against his COVID restrictions he says they are a \u201cfringe minority.\u201d<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that truckers and other working-class people are pushing back against the laptop class\u2019 nonsensical COVID restrictions, they\u2019re a fringe, a minority, a bunch of white supremacists.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re none of these things.<\/p>\n

The \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d bit we can write right off. If white supremacy were a serious thing, leftists \u2014 like hate-crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett \u2014 wouldn\u2019t have to invent it.<\/p>\n

As for a \u201cfringe minority,\u201d as Trudeau called them, well, as Elon Musk\u00a0noted in a tweet<\/a>, if the Canadian government\u2019s positions had substantial support, the truckers would have faced significant numbers of counterprotesters. But they did not. The government itself is the fringe minority, with its only support coming from the loyal sycophants of the media.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk said the Canadian government was the \u201cfringe minority\u201d in a tweet defending the truckers protest.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the United States, meanwhile, Joe Biden \u2014 whom a self-described \u201ccabal\u201d of media, tech and political types organized to put in office just over a year ago \u2014 is polling in \u201cworst president ever\u201d territory according to Rasmussen and Gallup polls.<\/p>\n

Gallup\u2019s survey shows that voter satisfaction has hit a \u201cgloomy\u201d new low, and Rasmussen found that 54% of voters\u00a0see Biden as<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cworst\u201d president in recent memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollectively, satisfaction at the start of 2022 in a variety of areas is about as bad as it\u2019s been in two decades of Gallup measurement,\u201d the pollster declared. And in the highly respected General Social Survey, Americans\u2019 happiness has\u00a0reached record lows<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once again, Biden\u2019s main source of support is the press, which will always back a Democrat, especially against working-class opposition.<\/p>\n

But as Twitter user\u00a0Greg Price noted<\/a>: \u201cIf truckers quit their jobs, society would immediately collapse. If politicians quit their jobs, the world would become a better place. We need truckers more than anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Truckers have figured that out. Right now Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are worrying about truckers coming out. They should really worry about truckers staying home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Truckers are starting a working-class revolution \u2014 and the left hates it. So we\u2019re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others\u00a0are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there\u2019s no justice, there\u2019s no peace. Naturally, the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,24,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rights","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76899,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76898\/revisions\/76899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}