Justin Embraces Full Bieber; Canada Embraces Suicidal Empathy

“We’re not putting your booze on shelves or buying your shit until you treat us with RESPECT!” OShow

Ever wonder why Elbows Up— so based, so mellow— are angry all the time about Trump? Canadians have had crying jags in the past with LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, GW Bush and other POTUS. But those disputes were about policy. 

This time it’s personal. He’s not pulling punches. How dare he tell us how we look after electing Justin three times?

In the years since Bush 43, Canada’s Left has undergone a transition away from modest guardian of a noble tradition to hysterical harbingers of post-modernism. While conservatives want law, the empathetic left now demand Justice! They’d caught the first whiff of their fashionable future in the 1960s under the elitist snob Pierre Elliot Trudeau. PMs such as Paul Martin and Stephen Harper had put it back in the bottle. 

But as Harper ’s tenure as PM expired the chattering classes were clamouring for something more along the lines of Barack Obama. Something insouciant, something daring, something they could talk about while on holidays in Europe. Like Obama the products of the Baby Boom wanted relevance, wanted meaning, wanted nobility.  

They exerted this newfound desire with the harrowing picture of the baby Syrian Alan Kurdi, drowned on a beach in 2015. It was a call to arms or, at least, a call to the newly minted internet. In demanding Harper do something to help the refugees of the latest Syrian conflict, they aspired to be heroes without getting the hands dirty. “For God’s sakes, let them all in!” they cried. Harper did, and the Left learned a lesson about the uses of media pressure.

It was, in the words of author/ academic Gad Saad, the launch of suicidal empathy in Canada. The desire in all things to place your own virtue ahead of the law. It isn’t enough to be empathetic. One had to act empathetically. (At a a distance). Pretty soon the Canadian Left was besotted with empathy. Little wonder, they turned to the son of PET, a minted product of privilege, to carry forth the mission. 

Forget that Justin was nepo party boy. Like his mother, he was just the superficial stuff that drives the American media wild. So what if he has the brain power of Boy George. Gerry Butts and friends would cool his malign notions. Forget that there were sexual-assault skeletons in his closet. The media party in Ottawa would paper over any blemishes. “She experienced it differently”

Besides, the country was on auto pilot. No one expected anything from Trudeau’s Canada but hold a few conferences and don’t make the markets upset. So why not rack up some fake climate medals and prizes for postmodernism which purports “that there are no objective truths, other than this one objective truth—that there are no objective truths.”

And thus did Canada begin its descent into the postmodern vision of Justin & Friends. Canada would no longer be the melting pot of the North. It was now a quilt of many cultures. His allusion was to a great hotel where everyone cooks their own food, sings their own songs, follows their own God. Supports their own terrorist cell. 

Sure, said Skippy. Why not?  “Canada is like a puzzle. We scatter all the new pieces on the floor with the ones already there and let them figure out the picture themselves."

To underscore this new Canada Trudeau played Mr. DressUp with his family in India, styling the last fashions while completely mucking up Canada’s relations with that nation for a decade at least. To show that old-timey Canada was dead he used disinformation to invoke the “Emergencies Act” in 2022 then secretly shared it with other “Five Eyes” nations. That throttled the Truckers Convoy by invoking draconian measures against their financial and civil rights (that were later found to be against the law).

He convinced his base that accelerated immigration was going to take pressure off the country’s social systems. He propped up the failing legacy media to tell Canada everything would be okay. He knelt beside fictional Rex school graves. And the Left bought it all three times— even when the Blackface photos and sexual assault claims demanded answers. 

His virtue was the nation’s virtue. How could anything be wrong with us if it was run by folks like him with a pure heart? It was the vacation of a lifetime from reality. He was a man who would honour the Boomer commitment to blind obedience. He would keep away the facts as presented by America.

And when it finally struck the Libs and their rubber-stamp voters that their PM had the gravity of a fruitcake they pivoted to a man who hadn’t lived in Canada for well over a decade. He was a time capsule from the Martin/ Harper era. But he knew enough to grab the Trump piñata when it was offered. 

Fortuitously, Trump had supplied the sneering assessment of Trudeau’s Canada as a morally, criminally and financially retarded nation. Raised on the soothing leftist pablum of Canada the Good from CNN, MSNow and the NY Times (Free healthcare!) Trump was the clarion call for the virtuous people who’d sleepwalked through a decade of What, Me Worry? Trump wasn’t just saying that had terrible leadership, he was saying that suicidal empathy made them terrible people.

That led to virtue plays such as all-but-Alberta boycotting U.S. wines and liquors. Which is like boycotting the works of Tolstoy and Chekov because you’re mad at Putin. But for the willfully blind it works. Ditto travel to the U.S. was a cudgel to allegedly punish Trump. Hurting only the border businesses they’ve eagerly frequented for decades.

In Justin’s absence they gave the Inconvenient Boyfriend unlimited powers. And bad hearing. Noted investigative reporter Sam Cooper: “It was shocking to learn the FBI busted Punjab-originated narco and criminal gang, Bishnoi, that are freely operating in and out of Canada. In the FBI indictment the Liberals were said to be immigrating criminals into Canada, and then surprised why crimes grew by triple digits. Now, they have no idea where anyone is.” So the purchased Canadian  media simply brain erased the whole thing and blamed Trump.   

Even American satirist Bill Maher is calling Carney’s Canada a cautionary tale now. A guy who spent years defending the left is looking at what the country has become and saying: it’s not better there anymore. Not even close. “We no longer believe that we are exemplars, better than other societies.”

Meanwhile Saad and Cooper have left Canada to save their sanity and health. “I love Canada,” writes Saad, a Lebanese native, “but its current path is truly suicidal. I tried my best for more than three decades to speak openly and honestly about some of the deeply troubling issues plaguing the country.”

Brainwashing isn’t enough for “luxury believers”: “To turn you into a willful collaborator, I need to also attack your emotional system. Empathy is an adaptive virtue. Suicidal empathy is the misfiring of this adaptive process.” Leaving Saad to compare it to Covid.. “All of these idea-parasites were spawned on university campuses, in some esoteric humanities department. But they’ve broken out of the ‘lab’ and have caused people to abandon their capacity to think properly.”

So they blame Trump. Or, on a slow day it’s Poilievre, causing their late-in-life pessimism. It’s conceivable that people in the Carney Army will go to their graves miffed by America’s trenchant assessment of the 2015-2025 generation. Never having considered the dire economic numbers from the Trudeau/ Carney years. But that’s what parasites will do. 

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his 2023 book Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, was voted a Top 20 greatest professional hockey books of all time by bookauthority.org . https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1770415300?linkCode=gs2&tag=uuid0a1-20 His previous book with his son Evan, “Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey” is now available on Amazon. His new poetry collection In Other Words is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca and on Kindle books at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/106980270