[Sundaycommunity] Canada

[Jean Leahy]

IS the U.S. a Christian country or a Martian Mammonite country?

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Food for thought…
>
> Dean.
>
> -::-::-::-
>
> When the Mask Slips
> Gordon F.D. Wilson
> *(Former Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of British
> Columbia)*
>
>
> Over the weekend, master media manipulator Donald Trump took time out of
> his busy schedule to send a cyber raspberry to pop star Taylor Swift, who
> faced the rudeness of some fans at the weekend Super Bowl, and declared
> that “MAGA is very unforgiving!”
>
> If Trump and Swift were competing entertainers with a feud like Drake and
> Lamar, the unprovoked remark might be explained away as a deliberate
> attempt to gain publicity to advance both careers, but he isn’t; Trump is
> the President of the United States.
>
> Trump’s remarks were designed to deflect from the systematic
> implementation of an agenda that, beneath the Make America Great (economic)
> mask, lies a much more sinister far-white agenda.
>
> On February 9th on NBC news, Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security
> Advisor, responded to a question concerning Trump’s intention to annex
> Canada, to which he replied, “I don’t think there are any plans to invade
> Canada, but we are committed to getting rid of liberal progressive
> government.” Trump intends, Waltz said, “to assert American leadership from
> Greenland, the Arctic to the Panama Canal, including controlling Arctic
> defense.”
>
> Fortress North America is not a new concept.
>
> At its foundation is the idea that Canada and the United States are
> Anglo-American (white) states with a shared, albeit different, colonial
> origin and are Christian countries.
>
> This belief is at the root of the MAGA philosophy, despite being
> sufficiently masked with promises of lower taxes, smaller government, and
> more working-class employment in the last election not to alienate ethnic
> voters.
>
> The challenge was to get Trump elected, and they met that challenge. His
> vindictive post gave us a glimpse at the nature of the man behind the
> authoritative mask of the America First agenda.
>
> Trump’s visceral dislike for Swift is not because she backed Kamala
> Harris, but for who she is and the values she represents.
>
> That is also the reason that Canada is in his crosshairs.
>
> Canadians, while not perfect, embrace multiculturalism, support two
> official languages, acknowledge past colonial injustice toward Indigenous
> people, and have made reconciliation a priority.
>
> Canadians take pride as a country in not having to spend billions building
> a military, choosing instead to try to resolve issues through diplomacy and
> dialogue, and we prefer to respect the faiths of all people, with a Charter
> of Rights and Freedoms that ensures that every Canadian is equal to every
> other Canadian.
>
> We are the Whos of Whoville and Grinch Trump can’t stand to hear us sing,
> not because he doesn’t like the song, but because our common values are the
> antithesis of the unmasked MAGA philosophy of a superior Christian
> Anglo-European ancestry as it was at the time of their founding fathers.
>
> Trump has repeatedly said that he intends to replace Canada’s sovereign
> authority and annex the country into a 51st state, and these are not simply
> musings. He has a plan.
>
> Three weeks ago, Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH), when interviewed
> by Kaitlin Collins on CNN The Source, was challenged by Collins about the
> need for tariffs against Canada, calling out Trump’s false narrative about
> the amounts of drugs leaving Canada. Davidson responded that Trump is
> “shaping electoral politics in Canada.”
>
> Trump believes there are enough Canadians fed up with “the adolescent egos
> of the university-woke” that they will engineer a shift toward becoming a
> US state.
>
> The thing is, he might not be wrong.
>
> Canadians insist this will never happen, committing to stand against any
> external threat of annexation, but the greatest threat to this country
> comes from within.
>
> It’s like we are standing on a sandy beach so fixated on the wash of the
> incoming Trump tide that we are oblivious to the fact that the tide’s
> advance is sucking away the oxygen that gives firmness to the sand and
> slowly sinking up to our knees, leaving us stuck and without recourse.
>
> It has happened before.
>
> Canadians need to refresh their memories concerning the relationship
> between Germany and neighbouring Austria in the years from the 1934
> attempted coup through to the Anschluss in 1938, when 99.8% of Austrians
> who voted in a German-administered referendum chose to join Germany.
>
> Germany left it up to Austrian sympathizers within the country to
> destabilize, spread lies through their propaganda, and convince Austrian
> Chancellor Schuschnigg that he could protect his country from a German
> invasion by giving credibility to Hitler’s false narratives and
> exaggerations. He believed corrupt countrymen who told him if he met
> Hitler’s demands, it would remove any excuse for annexation. He tried, and
> it failed.
>
> The situation we face today is not quite so dire, at least not yet. But to
> be mindful of bad history gives us the choice not to repeat it.
>
> The fact is the MAGA mantra is so pervasive and aggressive in some
> quarters that Canadians should start to pay attention and think carefully
> before voting.
>
> We are hearing the same rhetorical commentary calling to get rid of the
> woke, liberal, progressive government referenced by Trump’s National
> Security Advisor, and Poilievre, much like Trump, plans to slash the civil
> service and gut Canadian international aid to have money to build a
> military base in the Arctic with the surplus along with dollars from
> Canadian-imposed tariffs against US goods going to reduce our taxes.
>
> It is the Trump playbook.
>
> If history has taught us anything, that course of action will do little
> more than pull us in line with the MAGA regime to our south, leaving little
> else to do, beyond handing over the keys.
>
> I have great faith in Canadians.
>
> When faced with having to choose, I believe we will reject the Christian
> Anglo-European view of our country and embrace who we are today, a
> multicultural, multifaith society that has, through tears, heartbreak, some
> smiles, and songs, accepted our shared inheritance; we have seen, heard,
> and accepted each other for who we are: Canadians, strong and free.
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