Why the Truckers Won
A provocative essay, published two days ago.
On Twitter, her handle is CatGirl Kulak. On Substack she goes by Kulak.
It’s not clear where in Canada she lives, but she’s one feisty gal. Two days ago she published an entertaining rant titled The Truckers Won. Everything.
I regularly declare that the Freedom Convoy changed the pandemic trajectory here in Canada (see here and here). Heading into year number three, our nation wasn’t returning to normal. It was, instead, becoming increasingly totalitarian. The pressure on unvaccinated individuals was ramping up, not down. Then the Freedom Convoy happened. Within days, governments abruptly changed course.
Lots of folks insist that, since restrictions were already easing, the truckers needn’t have made such a fuss. But that’s not how things actually happened.
If a person’s only source of information was the malevolent mainstream media, it might have looked like the government triumphed when it violently shut down this three-week protest. Kulak has a different interpretation. Here’s how she begins:
I keep encountering this misconception from people who don't follow Canadian politics...
That somehow the Trucker convoy was defeated.
The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.
People remember Trudeau's crackdown…Bank accounts frozen and public employees investigated for mere donations...
And there's a big reason people remember this... It was dramatic, and the media and the regime certainly wanted you to think resistance was futile...
What people don't remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath…
[second ellipsis inserted by me, all others in the original; bold added by me]
Great repost! I want to share this essay with everyone I know, but of course, somehow the sleeping ones will find something they cannot believe, but I have already sent it on to my trucker contacts with a HUGE THANK YOU! Thanks for reposting Donna.
The people in Ottawa who were terrorized were in fact being terrorized. NOT by the convoy but by the Government & the MSM who convinced them that they were under siege.
When you think about it, thought all of this, the government, assisted by the MSM were the real terrorist. They created an environment of fear so they could control the population. Isn't that what terrorist do?