Truckers deadlock

[myata]

Attention please: not deadlock of the truckers, or created by the truckers, caused by them etc. But a minute please: have you thought why the convoy caused and causing such a nearly unanimous perplexity outright rejection in the political establishment and around it, regardless of pretty much anything: occupation, field of activity, political stripe, Liberal, Conservative you name it. Is it really because of Russia-extremism-misogynism-Islamofobia where, can we see it? Or could there be another, perhaps simpler explanation?

I'll venture my guess: yes, such a possibility exists. Truckers cause near unanimous stupor and rejection by the elites simply because they do not fit into their picture, framework, narrative you name it. Not just in it, but directly opposite, orthogonal to it. Moreover, truckers are despised, called names and hard to resist that word, h-ted because they exposed so clearly and visibly the deadlock, crisis and a dead end of the system of administration of public matters based on elitism, closeness, opaque and obscure close circle top down management. A system of near-identical political twins where status quo is preserved at all cost, where it virtually does not matter who is in power because each of the twins is guaranteed to get its turn and the wheel will spin for ever longer. Truckers are hated because they are external, alien, a clear and potentially existential threat to the system, the New Compact.

But truckers is not an existential threat to the status quo of the Compact. They are doing a great, invaluable job of bringing the problem to the fore, to the attention of the society but they are hardly the cure. Their valiant effort will not change the system because the force and the momentum it creates wouldn't suffice; because it would take a concerted and prolonged effort by the society itself to accomplish that. To renew itself and reinvent and reinvigorate the democracy. To make it open; transparent; accountable and responsible to the citizens.

Such a path do exist. But it lies in the direction known and familiar to Canadians: the political direction. Yes, truckers or rather let's call it that the movement for accountability and renewal will need a party. A different kind of party for a new type of work. Not the party let's elect it and hope that something would happen, somehow. A party for the job to be done, an essential and necessary work.

The party will need to be cleaned of weirdos and whackos, bizarre and random elements. The work formulated clearly and openly for everyone to see, number points, bullet points full transparency. Each one represents a firm objective and a commitment. We don't have to all agree on everything but we can talk, understand and agree what needs to be done. And after that, whatever and however long it would take. Coalitions are fine as long as the objectives are affirmed. Either work will be done with time, reason and shared effort; or the things will return back to the status quo, never changing and never ending. Because I don't see a chance of a system absorbed in itself, in near accomplished isolation from the society for so long, so entrenched into its privileges and entitlements reforming itself, meaningfully and successfully. Not one in a million.

And as far I'm concerned, one of the bullet points should be a clear rejection of privilege and entitlement as the basis and driver of the system. It just does not work. Just look.

Edited January 30, 2022 by myata