A Few Good Men
There's a reason the Canadian trucker freedom convoy is such a powerful historical moment. It's the power of men reasserting masculine balance in a world awash with toxic femininity.
The videos of the trucker convoy in Canada are incredible. They actually make me cry.
Two nights ago, after the third snow dump in two weeks since I moved to Virginia, someone plowed my driveway at 2 a.m. By morning, all the neighborhood streets were cleared and had a fresh layer of gravel. I realized: men did this. Men were out here all night, doing this. This is men’s work, and they did it—not just without complaint, but with dignity and pride. Clearing my driveway was neighborly kindness, and also a display of competence. Displays of competence hit differently than displays of care or compassion. They feel like relief. Feminine care says “I’ll protect you.” Masculine competence says “I’ll defend you.” And after two years of endless protection (for our own good, of course) a muscular defense of our interests is an oasis in the desert.
The attempt by the legacy media in the U.S. and Canada to characterize this convoy as “fringe” or somehow fascist is patently absurd to anyone with eyeballs who can feel that competence in their bones. And that contradiction just lends the truth more power. It has forced a crack in the craven, ugly, and fragile facade of authoritarianism, and has created its own momentum—just as glasnost and perestroika did. It has driven the empty shell of Prime Minister Trudeau into hiding, utterly unequipped to meet the moment.
It’s an absolutely incredible historical occasion, a spontaneous, effervescent expression of “ENOUGH” from the most obedient country on Earth. Their demands are simple: Trudeau resigns, and/or all vaccine mandates are abolished immediately. They hold all the cards, and everyone can feel it, and it is exhilarating as hell.
I was there! When I arrived, I asked a couple people I came across "Is this where the normal people are all meeting up?" and they knew just what I meant. People wanted to talk openly about their "unacceptable views" with no holds barred, and the experience felt like a great relief after so long feeling in a stigmatized minority, whether true or not. We didn't even need to ask "so why are you here?", the personal stories just came forth. Some were quite moving. The first had been kicked out of a grief support group following the suicide of her son, due to her vax status. The second lost a military job, same as me. All senseless. Not one person that I interacted with seemed "fringe" or unreasonable in any way, and all were peaceful. The truckers looked proud of themselves, and rightly so. Our adversary has so much power that I don't know if they can be beaten back, but at least we can say that we are going to try.
I was excited and happy when I learned about the convoy... then I watched the footage and noticed many slaughterhouse trucks in it, which reminded me of the following quote:
"Human beings see their own oppression vividly when they are the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.”
-“Hacker,” Animal Liberation Front member & Holocaust survivor
... or as Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote, ‘In their behavior towards creatures, all men are Nazis.’