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So welcome to the plodcast. This is episode 2 27. My name is Douglas Wilson. I'm glad that you decided to join us.

So welcome aboard. Let's go. This episode I want to talk a little bit about the Canadian truckers.

And I want to talk about them because let's be frank you and I. The Canadian truckers made me happy.

Part of the reason I was so happy is when so many people,

particularly in places like Canada,

rolled over to all kinds of overweening overreach on the part of the government

with a few courageous Canadian pastors standing up here and there. It is very easy to assume that everybody's gone brain dead.

Everybody is compliant and this is the way it's going to be and then all of a sudden apparently out of nowhere

there's this eruption of you know freedom-loving Canadian truckers where do they come from? And they acquitted themselves well. They

stayed peaceful. They applied appropriate pressure. They got all kinds of

regulations dropped at least at the provincial levels.

Justin Trudeau, cracked down on them, declared the emergency sort of assumed emergency powers, cleared out the streets of Ottawa, sent them home,

and then almost right away dropped the emergency powers,

indicating that this was not the show of strength that it might have looked like to some.

Basically, I believe that this indicated that the ruling powers that be are far more vulnerable than they appear

to be to us and probably are far more vulnerable than they appear to be to themselves.

Now I think that they're probably more aware of their vulnerability

than the people are, but this illustrates what I think is the bottom line in this. What we're seeing is a political

seismic shift when it comes to practical politics. So if I'm a I'm a principled conservative and all

the things I believe about free trade and economics and a stable social order and all of those things I still believe I still hold to the same things.

The things I learned out of all the books that I read are they're constant.

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