The Canadian Shakers shook the system, Where are the Movers?

Since 2015 there have been many people on the right shaking the political establishment within society and within the Conservative sphere. Yet there has been little movement within the people with the power to move things in the direction the right wants and the shakers are starting to give up. What could this mean for Conservatism in Canada?

Transcript

[00:00] Russell: All right, folks. And we're back. Russell here with the Canadian conservative podcast.

[00:04] Happy Friday to everyone. And I just wanted to do an episode today talking about the ideas of the shakers and the movers, in particular on the right in Canada.

[00:16] Now, the concept of shakers and movers I took from a YouTuber called Alex Hexagon. He has talked a lot about different political issues and what it means for society for more of a sociological context.

[00:30] I've really enjoyed his work, and I think you should check his workout as well.

[00:35] Now, borrowing from Alex's video, shakers and movers, what are they? To visualize it, imagine the punk rockers and social dissonance. They raised a lot of ruckus. They were able and willing to stick their neck out on the line a bit.

[00:54] They made a lot of noise. That's the whole idea of shaking, right? You're going to make a lot of noise. You don't care if it's in the public, you don't care if you're ostracized.

[01:02] You understand there might be consequences of doing such a thing, and you're willing to accept those consequences because you're going against an establishment narrative, you're going against a mainstream narrative.

[01:17] And then you have the movers.

[01:19] So that's going to be like your hippies. That's going to be your people that are maybe not willing to shake up the establishment publicly, but they're in the background and they're the ones pushing.

[01:29] Once the public has maybe seen your way or they see that things might need to be a different way and you're there to move those things into existence, to take an idea from the ephemeral from a thought and turn it into reality itself.

[01:49] Now, how does this apply in the context of Canada and conservatives, or what we might put as an umbrella term, the right, which encompasses a lot more than just conservatives, encompasses libertarians, encompasses quite a number of classic liberals as well, that feel that the establishment has abandoned liberal principles for extremist ideology.

[02:15] So we have lots of shakers in Canada.

[02:19] So you look at the Freedom Convoy, those people shook up the establishment. I mean, they made the establishment blink. The establishment had to take emergency measures to quell down people that were in the streets protesting in front of Parliament.

[02:37] Now, these are not the protests of the left. You have to remember the left has a very well funded and well established protest machine. Now, in my previous episode, I talked a little bit about how that's being dismantled for the parasite that it is.

[02:51] It's being excised.

[02:53] But the left is very, very well aware of how to fight politically in the political sphere. They've been doing it since the 1960s, maybe a little bit before that as well.

[03:05] So they're very well aware and very well funded, very well trained on how to do public protests and how to shake things up.

[03:17] And if they don't get their way peacefully, we've seen that they're more than willing to engage unpeacefully.

[03:24] Whereas I would say that the conservatives in general, the right as an umbrella term, they don't really have that infrastructure. They don't really have that, as Stuart Parker said, the protests in Ottawa, they don't know how to professionally protest.

[03:40] So they got bouncy castles out there. They're having a big street party. It's like a big tailgate party of the working class, a class that's long since been ignored by our elites, our Laurentian elites, the chattering class of society that views themselves to be our political, moral and cultural betters.

[04:02] So Canadians had enough. They went to Ottawa, they protested, and the government, the establishment, completely unprepared for this, because they're used to protests being done a certain way. It's. It's a machine just like anything else.

[04:16] And so they're used to people getting a permit to protest. They're used to turning a blind eye to black bloc protesters who use very radical tactics. They've developed over a long time, rules for radicals, turned into, and very freely available on their website, Beautiful trouble, which is all about how to harass the machine in a very certain and particular way that avoids the machine coming down on them.

[04:47] So the right doesn't have that memoir. So they go to Ottawa. They're not getting paid by anyone, so they have to raise money.

[04:56] The government, after about two weeks of complete and utter moral panic, turns around, establishes very authoritarian measures to destroy the convoy and basically tear down that protest infrastructure.

[05:12] They then, of course, freeze people's bank accounts. They used information that was obtained through a hacker to publicly out people to get them fired from their jobs. It's the leftist playbook.

[05:22] They use the leftist playbook on a very grand scale, enabled by the government.

[05:29] So now we're not just talking about individual mud ruckers, so to speak. We're talking about the institution itself, utilizing extremist tactics, abandoning the rules of law, abandoning principles, and using every avenue they have within their funded machine to take on the Canadian people, the working class.

[05:55] And they won in some regards.

[05:58] The protest was dismantled. The leaders of the protest were jailed.

[06:03] Show trials began. The inquiry happened. Eventually it was deemed that the use of the Emergencies act was unconstitutional, but no one cared because you can't hold anyone accountable here because we don't have those accountability mechanisms built into our government.

[06:19] Now what does this all mean? Well, the shakers have been shaking and they continue to shake. We have the rise of the People's Party of Canada shaking the conservative establishment, saying, we're done with Red Toryism, we're done with lame duck conservatism, because our opponents are not playing by old rules anymore.

[06:40] They're playing by their rules. And our rules are to capitulate to their rules, which is not working for us. And we want something different. So we saw the rise of the People's Party of Canada, and you saw a lot of conservatives.

[06:55] Many of them remained silent supporters. I know conservatives that never vocally said support for the People's Party of Canada, but they were supportive that the conservative establishment in Canada had grown kind of rotten and it needed a renewal.

[07:14] I wrote about this in my sub stack under, I think I called it the Sharpening Stones, how the People's Party of Canada basically sharpened the saber of the Conservative Party.

[07:25] But did it really, though? Did it really? I don't regret writing the article, but I'm looking at it now and I'm saying, did it really do what it intended to do now?

[07:37] Convoy 2.0, I don't think it's going to happen again. The establishment learned and they have adapted. Like any growing mechanism, it's put safeguards in place to ensure that those things don't happen again.

[07:50] It was caught off guard. The establishment blinked and so it was caught off guard. So we still have the shakers, though, and they're still shaking and they're saying like, hey, we've done all the shaking.

[08:00] We have public consensus for the most part. Now they're waiting for the movers to do their thing.

[08:07] But where are the movers? Where are the people that are taking what people are now saying they want and moving it into reality?

[08:18] And that is where it's failed. The movers have not moved what people want into reality. They're still playing by the old rules. As I said earlier in a comment on Twitter, they're walking a path that's already being paved in front of them, but they're not getting ahead of the path.

[08:41] They're not shoring it up.

[08:43] So we have people and they're shaking. And people have lost jobs, people have lost livelihoods, people have lost opportunities, economic opportunities, and smart, good people as well.

[08:54] Good, salt of the earth people.

[08:56] And now they're saying, well, we've shook a lot. We've taken a lot of risks. We've taken a lot of blows. And they're starting to back out. They're starting to say, you know what?

[09:04] I'm just gonna go back to my life. Obviously, people aren't listening. This isn't worth it because I'm paying a price that other people are not willing to support. They're not willing to endure.

[09:18] They're not willing to push the changes.

[09:21] So it's left us in a very strange flux right now. I would say the conservative movement in Canada, the right itself, is in a very strange flux. Especially we're watching United States, who their shakers shook, and now they're getting rapid movement.

[09:36] Things are rapidly moving where they need to go. Whereas in Canada, our shakers shook, and everyone's like, okay, well, where are we supposed to go from here?

[09:47] Where's the movement? And the movement isn't happening.

[09:51] And so there's like this confusion. There's this sort of apathetic exhaustion in Canada, where it's like, are we just going to continue to get more of the same? Is anything actually going to change?

[10:04] And now people are starting to check out some of the intellectuals that helped with the shaking that I was hoping were really going to help with the moving. They've moved on.

[10:17] Really sad to see. They moved on to the States, they moved on to other endeavors.

[10:21] And I get it for some of these people, that it's extracted a toll from them.

[10:27] But now everyone else that's left here is really left in. In a state of flux, and people are starting to back out. People are starting to give up.

[10:37] And I don't think that's a good thing. I think that's just going to breed resentment. And the infighting is incredible. The absolute infighting that's been allowed to occur because of this has been incredible, to say the least.

[10:51] And now people that have really extreme ideas, actual extremists, are starting to infiltrate their way in. And that's very dangerous because people that were doing the shaking are, in my opinion, starting to get drawn to more and more extreme views.

[11:11] I wouldn't say that they're extremists, but the infighting, they're saying, we did our job, we did our job. Where's the work? Where are people putting the rest of the work?

[11:21] And no one's putting the rest of the work in.

[11:24] And so to me, it's a very, very tumultuous time for the umbrella of the right in Canada, because things that were Promised were not delivered.

[11:38] Ideas that were pushed are not being implemented.

[11:42] And I don't know what it's going to lead to. I really don't know what it's going to lead to because it's clear what people want.

[11:52] It's very clear. People want safe cities.

[11:56] People want our political class to be held accountable. People want more say in federal and provincial politics.

[12:07] People want us to succeed as a nation. They don't want to subsidize the world. They don't want to subsidized bad ideology. They don't want hyper reality, as I said in a previous episode, hoisted upon us.

[12:22] They don't want that.

[12:24] But yet the people that said no, we're going to stop that, they apparently don't seem all that interested in stopping it. And I don't know why.

[12:35] And it's really sad to see that. There's been a real lack of people just calling things out for what they are within the movement sphere.

[12:46] They're still scared. I don't know what they're scared of. The road's been paved, they just have to walk the path and they have to shore it up.

[12:55] So I, I'm really not sure what's holding people back here from actually just going the extra mile walking that road and finally getting some of these things brought into society that people have been asking for.

[13:13] Maybe our hyper reality is just that strong. Maybe the parasite is just that deep. What I've been seeing a lot of people saying is, well, we should just become part of the states now.

[13:24] They just given up. They just said, well it's not working and they're giving up now. And that's not good either.

[13:32] I mean we could do a cost benefit analysis of joining the United States, what that would mean for us.

[13:39] And while there is benefits and the benefits been made very clear, I also think that there's potential drawbacks as well.

[13:47] And if the benefits continue to outweigh the drawbacks, then I think we'll see people taking on what I think is a very radical approach, which is just to assimilate ourselves into the United States and become the 51st state.

[14:03] Well, maybe 52nd. I heard the states is going to annex Gaza first, so we might be the 51st or 52nd state.

[14:12] And I'm not sure what that would look like.

[14:15] It looks like it would be very painful.

[14:18] It would be a defeat. It would be a moral and utter defeat. I don't think we would be treated the same as the other Americans. Go back to the movie America and Civil War and there's that scene where that soldier standing there and he's, we're American, we're American.

[14:34] And the guy says, yeah, what kind of American are you? Hmm. It's a very, very interesting question. When it comes to basically taking an entire country and just melting it into another country's apparatus, I don't think it would work out too well.

[14:53] But like I said, if the benefits of that start to outweigh the costs, then I think we're going to see a real movement towards that.

[15:02] So I don't know what the answer is. I'm not here, I guess, to propose an answer because I don't have one, except to say if there's anyone listening that's a mover in the sphere, it's time to get moving.

[15:15] The road's been paved. You just have to walk the path.

[15:18] That could be our politicians, that can be, you know, right. Umbrella corporations.

[15:28] It's time to. To walk that path. And I don't know what's holding you back, but you gotta figure it out, because the shakers, they're just about done trying to shake things up for you anyways.

[15:41] No, it's not as much of a positive message for Friday, but I will say I think it's a needed message. I think that we need to start looking at the people that said that they're gonna implement these things and why they're just not doing it.

[15:56] Or at least, at the very least, not just plainly saying what everyone else that's been shaking the tree's been saying.

[16:04] Anyways, I hope you have a great Friday and I'll see you in the next episode.