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Posted February 8, 2025

The Trump is No Fun

Half a Century ago USA President Dwight Eisenhower, an affable chap from Texas, warned us that we may cause a Trump. Once he went public about optical lenses being no longer ground in the USA and explained that the loss of the skill would imperil America. At about that time an American icon, Singer sewing machines ceased production in the USA. In 1961 Eisenhower, free from re-election concerns, told his Fellow Americans that their society was increasingly dominated by the “Military–Industrial Complex”. Public inaction to such warnings connects to Trump’s current Tariff-Billiard.

Father Trudeau recognized that calling the Army in, would not reverse the back-sliding of the economy. The malaise was caused by the politicians selling out Canada to foreigners in return for “job creation” announcements that would win them re-election. He did the politically-correct thing, he ordered a study of the Economy, and hired Donald Macdonald to keep on studying it at least until Trudeau had no hope for re-election. After Mulroney got into the PMO, Macdonald released his report, possibly expressly finetuned for Mulroney to dump his pre-election solemn “no truck or trade with the Yankees” declaration. I reviewed the Report in my 1985 book “Requiem for Canada”.

The Mulroney “team” unleashed a deception blitz all over, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to sell us “Free Trade”. It elicited fierce public resistance and Lyin’ Brian added “Initiative” to the marquee, for it manifests “leadership” and deployed the trick adroitly to soften the target, us. He led us to feel comfortable in our ignorance of the FTI (Free Trade Initative) by faking confessing his own ignorance of FTI. He fooled us all about the it being a leap of faith toward a new Jerusalem – the trick was very dirty. Nobody knew what the Initiative would bring, “they” authoritatively said, so they could not explain it to us. It is a great chance we have to give it a try to see if we like it, his legion of slick persuaders told us. They stifled democratic debate and persuaded us to sidetrack Democratia and let Mulroney do his thing. In my book I argued that the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) was like opiates; after addiction salvation becomes problematic.

The FTA was the beginning of the dreaded Globalization. It is dreaded because it is new and the unknown is fearsome, with reason. But nothing is purely Bad or exclusively Good the Greeks said, every cloud has its silver lining say the Brits.

Sanctions, are “total” tariffs. They were the heavy guns which the Free World used against countries of the communist block. The denial of Chanel No5 and Rolex annealed the will of the deprived people and made them build industries to make substitutes for the sanctioned stuff. Some discovered they could live without, perhaps for the better.

I remember a full page ad run by the Free World warriors in the Cold War era. Chinese in drab attire carrying soil in bamboo baskets to build earthfill dams, moving in line like ants building anthills. The fact was that even if they had the cash, which they didn’t, they couldn’t buy machinery because the Free World manufacturers were “freely”

forbidden to “trade with the enemy”. China built the dams and caught up to Civilization fast. China now rivals the USA for top-dog in the economic and cultural sector.

An important aspect of Globalization is that it and conventional Democratia are mutually incompatible. People cannot tame enterprises headquartered in a decedents of Sputnik, floating and beeping from the other side of the Moon. Yet increasingly, the fulfilment of our needs, even basic ones, are managed by number-named “enterprises” functioning invisible, unreachable, unconnected with us.

This leaves us two options. One is surrender to globalization and let the Space drone-entities make us whatever their bosses want us to be. The other is to abandon the democratia-relics we pretend to believe in; study in depth the current realities and design in a tabula rasa a “new democratia”. A system by which we, the people will control our society to make it one we want to live in. To make it a free one, free of “bodies” wanting to ride our back, for that is inhumane.

The immediate concern is to hold onto the facility to do what needs to be done, to prevent being pushed into captivity, where survival has become a “too late” feature.

We need deem Trump being the catalyst we lacked all along and thank Lady Luck for dispatching him. He may be an agent of Bad, but he exposes first hand the consequences of oppression. For unlike others, he operates in the open, letting us see the ugly face of “elected tyranny”. Stupid enemies are one’s best friends.

Trump is not an anomaly in the sense of being unexpectedly parachuted into our midst. He was born to circumstances that happened because we did not stop the politicians selling Canada to foreigners, who would “employ” us to dig up our resources and ship them to distant “owners” of our homeland. No, it was not innate ineptitude, it was deliberate, meant to buy the perpetrators re-election. Some may have been true believers, blinded by “education”.

Being “radical” is made demeaning because the superficial is futile and correspondingly attractive to oppressors. To keep mowing the leaves of the dandelion in the lawn, is futile, uprooting it is “radical” and it works. We must uproot the causes that made Trump spring up.