Ever since the U.S. election of 2016, and to a lesser extent the Brexit referendum months earlier, I have read a dozen or so government publications about the general subject of interference in the election process. What I find common amid each of those government reviews, is a general leftist theme that democracy must be protected from election outcomes.
I know that last sentence sounds a little goofy, but that’s because leftism is exactly that weird and fraught with hypocrisy.
Keep in mind, right now in Europe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has banned any political opposition and cancelled elections in his country in order to “preserve democracy.” Meanwhile, the western politicians clap like seals and beclown themselves in support of the ridiculous assertion.
Do you remember the statement, “words progressives do not support are defined as violence; and violence progressives do support are defined as protests.”
Well, in the electoral version of that same theme, election outcomes leftists do not support are defined as threats to democracy; while manipulated election outcomes the leftists do support are defined as trustworthy.
This is the essential context for a rather alarming publication from the Canadian Government that says many of their elected politicians are working for foreign governments. The Canadian National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians published a report last week saying unnamed lawmakers in Canada’s parliament (and there are many of them) have helped foreign actors meddle in Canadian government.