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Truckers protesting in Canada over COVID-19 mandates are not the only ones who have had enough of government dictating their lives.
When I was a freshman congressman and Jimmy Carter was president, farmers rolled into Washington, D.C. on tractors to protest agriculture policy during an event known as Tractorcade.
You can’t believe what a mess it was, ’cause you know, tractors are pretty big, and they’re slow, and they were just rumbling down the road. People had to go around them, and they ultimately ended up in Washington, and the huge number of tractors all over Washington in 1979, but it didn’t occur to anybody to be hostile and to be angry.
Canadians who I think of normally as pretty go along, get along people–the Canadian government is kind of going crazy.
Ottawa’s mayor has declared a state of emergency, and the police chief has delivered a warning about supplying the truckers with food and gas.
The truckers don’t like wearing masks, and they’re trying to communicate they’re against the government dominating their lives, and their action of government has been to get more hostile, more angry, more determined.
And I think there’s just a tip of an iceberg of everyday folks who are just sick and tired of being told by the government how they have to behave, in personal ways down to what they put in their body with vaccinations, what they put on their face with masks, how they have to deal with their children.
All of this comes alongside more examples of the hypocritical elitists on the left saying do as I say but not as I do. Stacey Abrams, candidate for governor in Georgia, just posed for a photo without a mask while she was surrounded by young children all wearing masks. California Governor Gavin Newsom also appeared maskless at a football game surrounded by people without masks after he dictated that everyone in his state had to wear a mask.
We’re now learning that a lot of the things the public health people told us just weren’t true. They had no scientific basis and represented sort of a sociology of power of people who want to impose themselves on the rest of us.
So this is a fascinating time. It’s gonna continue unraveling.
