After living here for a while now, one of the things I've realized about "politics" in Canada is that every single bad thing that happens in my homeland, the United States, will eventually make it up to the land of maple syrup and hockey players with no teeth. In news that will be intimately recognizable to my fellow Americans, the aftershock of a comically poor insurrection attempt by "grassroots" fascists has been the normalization and ascension of fascist politics and politicians in Canadian society and public life:

https://rabble.ca/columnists/fascist-movements-are-growing-strong-in-canada/

"The Ottawa occupation didn’t see the same level of violence or calculation as the January 6 insurrection. It was more like a parody—a Canadian stereotype with bouncy castles, street hockey, beer drinking, and inflatable hot tubs. Still, despite the buffoonery, the main factions that rose up as organizers and leaders in the occupation had clear intentions that were anti-democratic and rooted in conspiracy theories, just like the January 6 insurrection.

The occupation’s demand to overthrow the Liberal government was my personal wake up call. Although the Ottawa occupation was officially disbanded, the discontent has continued to grow and fester, evolving into what may be Canada’s own version of a neo-fascist movement.

After trying civil disobedience to achieve its goals, the freedom movement switched tactics to focus on electoral politics. There is now a growing voter bloc rallying behind Pierre Poilievre with many signing up to be Conservative Party candidates themselves—both provincially and federally (and in some instances municipally). This bloc has shown to be deeply opposed to basic human rights like 2SLGBTQ+ protections, immigration, and any and all climate policy, which sadly isn’t a surprise given that only 46 per cent of conservatives believe that climate change is a serious threat. And if climate policy also prioritizes Indigenous sovereignty like it does with the United Nations Declaration for Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), then they are really, really opposed to it."

Of course, and as this article makes clear, Canada is certainly not alone in incorporating and importing the "new" (not actually that new) brand of American fascism most observers associate with Trumpism; this reactionary, revanchist, and genocidal brand of "politics" is gaining power and mainstream acceptability across the entire Pig Empire "West" as we speak. Perhaps this is because on a boiling rock dominated by police states in which all the watchmen have been bought off, the logical position for a capitalist class that owns everything and everyone in a world losing the ability to sustain billions of human lives, is in fact a fascist position.

People aren't going to go off the ecological cliff like lemmings so a few thousand billionaires can keep extracting profits on a dying rock forever; as resistance to the genocidal plan to sacrifice billions of people at the altar of ruling class wealth and power grows, the need to obliterate democratic rights and meet popular resistance with lethal force grows with it. When an entire planet full of oppressed people on the chopping block are waking up to the limits of capitalism and the reality of their own position in a society run by freaks who don't care who dies so long as they maintain control and the right to extract, fascism was never going to remain just an American solution for an increasingly global ruling class that means us all harm.

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