and people are waking up to this, tossing the greens, and embracing rights and nationalist ideas rather than be eaten by pseudoscience cults and globalists.
pretending to play at “centrism” while getting played like a $4 banjo by radical groups making extreme demands because “we should compromise” is not a path to success when your opposition excels at weaponizing empathy and trait empathization, rigging systems, and making up lysenko level “science” to justify ideology and to gin up pretext for power grabs. it’s the road to repeated rookings.
past a point, you simply cannot compromise with people. compromise presumes reasonableness, and that’s a very expensive assumption about unreasonable people.
they will not respond by seeking to work with you or understand you. they will just keep surging to ever greater extremes so that “splitting the difference” keeps sliding ever in their direction. this is the original “give them an inch and they’ll take you a mile” gang.
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A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....