{"id":4219,"date":"2020-07-20T04:58:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T08:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2020-07-20T05:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:01:51","slug":"the-fall-of-stockwell-day-and-what-it-means-for-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4219","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Of Stockwell Day And What It Means For Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stockwell-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stockwell-day.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stockwell-day-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stockwell-day-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stockwell-day-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>SURREY, BC., October 1, 2015 &#8212; Stockwell Day with Dianne Watts, Conservative candidate for South Surrey-White Rock on the campaign trail in Surrey, BC., October 1, 2015.   The Conservative Party has promised that it will crack down on criminal gangs if it is re-elected as the governing party in this months election.  (Nick Procaylo\/PNG)   00039336A [PNG Merlin Archive]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Fall Of Stockwell Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And What It Means For Conservatives<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>July 1st, 2020 | JH<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/tweet_button.c4b33f07650267db9f8a72eaac551cac.en.html#dnt=false&amp;id=twitter-widget-0&amp;lang=en&amp;original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poletical.com%2Fstockwell-day.php&amp;size=m&amp;text=The%20Fall%20Of%20Stockwell%20Day&amp;time=1595164648926&amp;type=share&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poletical.com%2Fstockwell-day.php\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?send=false&amp;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poletical.com%2Fstockwell-day.php&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;width=49&amp;height=20&amp;locale=en_US\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\n met Stockwell Day in Regina back in 2002 when he was running for the \nsecond time to reclaim his leadership position of the Canadian Alliance.\n I trekked out to one of his fundraisers in a church basement surrounded\n by seniors in order to listen to his pitch. When he was introduced, I \nexpected him to walk out on stage, but he surprised us by entering from \nthe back of the room. I felt a tap on my shoulder, and he shook my hand \nas he made his way through the crowd and up to the podium. It\u2019s funny \nhow little interactions like that can have a big impact on people at a \npersonal level. Suddenly, he wasn\u2019t just a guy on TV, he was a real \nperson that I met face-to-face. I was a fan before, and I\u2019ve liked him \never since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Stockwell \nDay has become the latest victim of cancel culture. His appearance on \nCBC\u2019s Power &amp; Politics defending Canada from accusations of systemic\n racism seems to have been the bait that finally tripped the trap. \nStockwell misread the current mainstream zeitgeist and thought that \ntarring Canada as being systemically racist was the realm of far-left, \ncritical theory SJW activists. Instead, he learned the hard way that the\n needle at the centre of the Overton Window has yet again moved left and\n that not recognizing Canada as inherently racist makes you an apologist\n for bigotry and, as a result, racist yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(article continues after ads)<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stockwell\n Day\u2019s very reasonable, boomer-era assumption that hating Canada for \nbeing systemically racist is the wheelhouse of the far-left was sadly \nand embarrassingly corrected with him being cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, Stockwell Day \nhas resigned from the boards of both Telus and theCanadian law firm \nMcMillan LLP. He will also not be featured on CBC\u2019s Power &amp; Politics\n anymore since his taboo-breaking has made him a pariah. Stockwell \nbriefly made a public tweet stating,&nbsp;\u201cBy \nfeedback from many in the Black and other communities, I realize my \ncomments in debate on Power and Politics were insensitive and hurtful. I\n ask forgiveness for wrongly equating my experiences to theirs. I commit\n to them my unending efforts to fight racism in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\n refers to Stockwell using his experience being bullied as a kid with \nglasses to the experiences of black people experiencing bullying due to \ntheir race. It\u2019s a ham-fisted analogy, but the point was correct. People\n will always find reasons to divide us and, if race isn\u2019t available, \nthen some other difference can be substituted. It\u2019s just the \nmean-spirited aspect of human nature to try to \u201cother\u201d people based on \ninherited characteristics. It creates in-groups and out-groups. These \ndynamics will never change, but the goal of minimizing bullying should \nalways remain a goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s not enough for the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was blood in the \nwater and they pounced. The thing is, though, I don\u2019t blame the SJW mobs\n for doing what they did. At this point we should know better. The blame\n lies with Stockwell Day and the boomer-era conservatism that brought us\n to this point in our culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What lessons can be learned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Conservatives need to boycott the CBC and all leftist media<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was Stockwell Day on \nCBC providing his opinions in the first place? The idea is that he \nprovides balance. When a topic comes up, the CBC would love to just have\n three talking heads espousing far-left worldviews and trying to one-up \neach other regarding who\u2019s the most progressive. This is too much \nobvious bias for a supposedly \u201ccentrist\u201d program to allow, so they bring\n in a conservative voice to function as the foil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These conservatives are \nthen expected to provide a conservative perspective to a \nnon-conservative group of commentators and a non-conservative host. All \nof this is then presented to a non-conservative audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually after a certain\n amount of time passes, the conservative foil oversteps the liberal \nframing and says something that progressives consider to be \u201cbeyond the \npale\u201d and they are then cancelled. Tom Flanagan was another former \nconservative commentator that comes to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do conservatives even \nbother? We all know that the CBC is a bastion of both Liberal propaganda\n and a more general progressive purveyor of far-left worldviews. Why \ndon\u2019t they just boycott this activist organ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a). The idea is that by \nappearing on these programs you can get the message out to people who \nmight never hear or consider conservative points of view. That\u2019s valid, \nbut does it work? Does it really? Being a token diversity hire to play \nthe bad guy to an audience of progressives isn\u2019t really changing hearts \nand minds like people think it might. These commentators are always \nsurrounded by other commentators who mock and rebut them and the whole \nthing always plays out within a solid liberal frame. You must be \nextremely savvy as a conservative to both battle your opponents \nlogically and get your message out coherently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why not skip it all \ntogether and sell to people who are buying? Playing the bad guy on CBC \ndoesn\u2019t do anything for conservatism and it doesn\u2019t do anything for the \nplayer themselves. Beyond that, why provide content of any kind for the \nCBC? They hate conservatives. Why work for an institution that hates \nyou?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b). There is a desire \namongst many conservatives to seek the approval of the liberal \nestablishment. If only we can show them that we\u2019re not all bad and we \nsimply have a different perspective, then surely, they will respect us \nand befriend us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t fall for it. They \nsee you as an enemy to their agenda and are using you as a rube. This is\n a weakness of conservatives and always has been. Since our culture is \ncentre-left (and increasingly far-left) the mainstream culture is moving\n further away from where conservatives used to live. It\u2019s not pleasant \nto be on the outside looking in, so many formerly mainstream \nconservatives try to appease progressives by being the moderate \nconservative that good-thinking progressives allow to exist in good \ncompany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Why was Stockwell Day on CBC providing his opinions in the first place?&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n trappings of power and prestige are all inside the progressive realm. \nYou must subscribe to the \u201cCathedral\u201d of progressivism in order to be \nseen as a good person. Appearing on CBC alongside progressives and \ngetting their reluctant approval is gratifying for many conservatives \nbecause it allows them to be viewed as \u201cin good standing\u201d amongst the \nmainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n problem in the long run is that these conservatives are functioning as \nhouse slaves and are the epitome of cuckservatism. Don\u2019t be the useful \nidiot of the left. They will chew you up and spit you out and the house \nyou think you\u2019re living in will be revealed to be built on sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Boomer-era conservatives need to update their operating system<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>When Stockwell Day ran for\n Prime Minister in 2000, the liberal media went berserk. They took all \nthe smears and strategies learned from attacking Preston Manning and \nthrew it at Stockwell Day ten-fold. The idea at the time was that \nStockwell Day had more charisma and presence as a leader. He was more \nphotogenic and athletic. His visuals were easier to sell to low-info \nvoters and this would make him a much better contender than Preston \nManning\u2019s nebbish style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stockwell was given a \nfull-scale media attack regarding abortion, his religion and the \nprivatization of healthcare\u2026and it worked. He picked up only 6 seats and\n the unity of the party quickly fell apart. As we know now, Stephen \nHarper took over the party and minimized the social conservatism and \nmore ambitious and robust aspects of the party platforms. After merging \nwith the PC Party, the modern CPC became a managerial party centred \nmostly around money. By the time Harper lost, the party was considered \ntoo right-wing by many\u2026simply too unfriendly by some. Scheer replaced \nHarper with an identical platform\u2026but with a smile. By this time, the \ncountry had moved so far left that the CPC was now considered far-right,\n and Scheer\u2019s milquetoast social conservatism was viewed as \u201cbeyond the \npale\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we\u2019re looking at a \nPeter MacKay leadership in which he is ardently pro-choice and eager to \nmarch in Pride parades. Climate change is a high priority for the guy, \nand he wants to end the coal industry as a result. He&#8217;s okay with \neuthanizing old people so long as the government isn\u2019t forcing doctors \nto do it against the doctor\u2019s will. And of course\u2026 systemic racism is \nobviously a part of Canada\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the front-runner to lead the Conservative Party of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten years from now, Svend Robinson may as well run for leadership. It just keeps getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boomer-era conservatism is\n really just slow-motion liberalism. Boomer-era conservatives like \nStockwell Day are always behind the curve, while switched on, forward \nlooking conservatives like Michael Chong are ahead of the curve. What \nthey have in common is that they are simply at different points on the \nliberal spectrum. Boomer-era conservatism follows liberalism along like a\n shadow, adopting yesterday\u2019s zany progressive idea as tomorrow\u2019s \nlong-held conservative principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most conservatives in \nCanada are on the slow end of the spectrum. When this happens, they are \nleft baffled and destroyed by the culture they no longer recognize. \nConservatives need to upgrade their awareness so they can accurately \nunderstand their place in society, or they need to give up their \nideological proclivities and follow the herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened to Stockwell\n Day is the same thing that happened to Don Cherry and then Wendy Mesley\n (of all people!? Not even liberals are safe) and will likely happen to \nRex Murphy and then Conrad Black and then\u2026 and then \u2026and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the professional \nCanadian Conservatives have operating systems that are ten or twenty or \nthirty years behind the curve. Jason Kenney is running the Ralph Klein \nplaybook and it\u2019s not working out so well for him. Why? Because it\u2019s not\n the 90\u2019s anymore. Stephen Harper ran a 2006 campaign in 2015 and he \nlost badly. Andrew Scheer ran a 2015 campaign in 2019 and he lost badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Severely normal Canadians \nholding what they believe to be severely normal views are risking having\n their lives destroyed simply because they\u2019re not up to speed on our \ncurrent cultural zeitgeist. We are living in a cultural revolution right\n now and if you want to avoid the Red Guard you need to act accordingly,\n be smarter and get up to speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. We are in this position because official conservatism has failed<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine being Stockwell \nDay on Power and Politics and thinking how ridiculous it is to condemn \nall of Canada as being systemically racist. This \u201cinherently racist \nCanada\u201d point of view was held only by the most radical of far-left \nactivists up until, oh I don\u2019t know, five minutes ago? Being a patriot \nis a natural part of what normal people think being a conservative \nshould be. The fact that it is now mainstream to view our whole system \nas racist should be a wake-up call to conservatives. The fact that \nStockwell Day has been cancelled because he had the audacity to be a \npatriot on CBC should be a wake-up call. Many events that have occurred \nrepeatedly in the past should have been wake-up calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservatism has failed to\n conserve anything of value. One civilizational plank after another has \nbeen marginalized, ridiculed, degraded and attacked for decades now. \nWe\u2019re at a point where the government has willfully shut down the \neconomy over a virus that is marginally more devastating than the \nregular flu and asserted a level of totalitarian control like we\u2019ve \nnever seen before. In order to mitigate the effects of shutting \neverything down, the federal government decided to run a $300 billion \ndeficit, consisting mostly of handing people free money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People love the free money\n so much that if an election were held today, Justin Trudeau would win \nin a landslide. The fact that he broke his quarantine in order to \ndisplay his supplication by kneeling to mobs of woke protestors has only\n won him more respect from Canada\u2019s progressive mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where are the conservative principles in all this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re living in total \nmadness and conservatism has nothing to say for itself. If conservative \nprinciples worked, we wouldn\u2019t be where we are right now. Completely \ndominated by madness. The conclusion to this situation is not going to \nbe \u201cconservatism\u201d. Something new and much more assertive needs to arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My journey away from \nmainstream conservative to something more fringe has mostly been forced \nupon me. I used to be what I thought was a \u201cright of \u2018centre-right\u2019 \nconservative\u201d, but as the madness builds, I now find myself as a \ndissident extremist inside my own country. Combined with taking the \nBenedict Option, I have carved out a savvy right-wing position that I \nhope will allow me the camouflage and subterfuge to thrive inside our \ncurrent zeitgeist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative-minded people\n in Canada need to do the same, because we\u2019re not going to vote our way \nout of this. The politics of our age is just meaningless window \ndressing. Our late-stage democracy is collapsing in on itself. We won\u2019t \nbe able to paper over our problems with borrowed\/printed money forever. \nOur system itself is degrading quickly and our culture is leading the \nway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this article being \npublished, Stockwell Day has disappeared from public life. His once \nactive Twitter account has stopped, and he has made no public \nappearances of note. I wish Stockwell Day all the best. I hope he\u2019s made\n enough money to live comfortably in retirement and I hope he drains his\n golden federal pension dry. I respect the guy and can sympathize that a\n worldview developed during formative years in the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s and \n&#8217;70s can innocently lead to the woke guillotine of cancel culture today.\n He shouldn\u2019t have had to apologize, because we shouldn\u2019t be at a point \nwhere an apology is demanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t have to live like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something (many things) \nhave gone horribly wrong with this country and if ever there was a time \nfor Stockwell to bow out and go fishing, now would be that time. As for \neveryone else, update your operating system, get red-pilled and act \naccordingly. This is no longer the Canada you think it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall Of Stockwell Day And What It Means For Conservatives July 1st, 2020 | JH I met Stockwell Day in Regina back in 2002 when he was running for the second time to reclaim his leadership position of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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