SDA regular Petter O’Donnell wrote something exceptionally thought provoking last night:
The percentage who might support the convoys may well be fairly low (my guess 20 to 30 per cent) but then another 50 per cent are probably fed up with the mandates but just hope in the abstract that they will go away because “experts” will say they are no longer needed. So that 50 per cent need to be educated about the fact that experts are not likely to lean that way because the other 20 per cent not yet covered in this analysis are those who like this situation and are woke enough to get what it really means, i.e., global socialist revolution (with them in charge, elections from now on are just to be show theatrics designed to ratify what the elites have already decided must be).
How might this convoy event reach that silent and rather undereducated (in the school of reality) 50 per cent? Only by articulating a message they can possibly understand. Chasing Charlie Angus around the back streets of Ottawa is not going to be that message. Neither are angry cries of outrage against Jewish bankers and “all those people” from “over there.”
This is in part because a very considerable portion of the 50 per cent are in fact those people from over there.
There are a few articulate people who might be assets in Ottawa and I hope they find their way to that benighted town and take part. But how exactly can this be structured so that the best possible message emerges? We know the media will twist the words of those they interview, who are bound to be largely flummoxed by the sudden appearance of a camera crew and microphone, and blurt out inner feelings that, while sincere and understandable, will sound like “Grrrr” to most neutrals.
This is why we have political parties. In a normally functioning country, when this disorganized congregation of like-minded people arrived in Ottawa, they would find important, well-known people that they voted for, ready to provide their facilities and expertise, and their credibility which would negate the media mischief, and keep the tasked police agents at a safe distance with nothing to exploit. This is where even the great Trump failed, had he employed the services of sensible advisors and not his son in law etc, he would have been told that Jan 6 was a cluster waiting to happen, and would seriously damage his chances of achieving his stated goal of litigating the fraudulent election.
I don’t know if Pollievre or Bernier read SDA very much, but for the sake of our country and for liberty and all things that are sensible, good and sane, you two and a few others need to get together and shepherd this flock when it is fully assembled, and speak for them. I cannot conceive of O’Toole being of any use here, he should just take a two-week vacation.
This can work. But it can also fail in a miserable and grotesque way too, and no doubt there are those planning just such an outcome. Watch out for them. It might be a good organizing principle to say, anyone who actually lives here should not join in, we can’t trust anyone in this city. I sure wouldn’t.