... to discover a group with the creepy and ominous name of "Freedom Rising," and if you have the stomach to visit that site, well, like I said ... creepy -- a melting pot of deranged racists, bigots, and anti-vaxxers, and at the top of that page, you find a link titled "Directory of Allies," whereupon you find (if you select "Canada"):
... and on and on and tediously, mind-numbingly on, a collaboration of the most paranoid, tin-foil hat conspiracy junkies on the planet, including -- if you scroll down far enough -- "The United People of Canada."
Where is the mainstream media when lunatic groups like this move into a neighbourhood and start proselytizing? Hello? Anyone?
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The mainstream media?
Does that still exist....
I think they're a breakaway group from the United Canadian Peoples group, who were themselves originally incorporated through a merger of The People of Canada United and the Popular Peoples League of Canada.
Yup, just another right wing grift. How many of these fucking orgs are there out there? There must be a lot of money in fascism.
There is a lot of money in fascism. Bottom line about this kind of crazy: It doesn't just happen. Or at least, it doesn't just happen at scale.
The way it works is, first the greed of the very rich gets them so much stuff, by taking so much of it away from everyone else, that they're pocketing more than the total of economic growth and everyone's lives start to suck. People get annoyed about this.
For a while, various kinds of deflection and propaganda convince enough people that everything is great and anyway if it isn't, what we need is to give even MORE money to the very rich so they can solve everything for us. But then, surprise surprise, giving even more money to the very rich just makes them richer. Eventually, people start to seriously think about solutions that would take some money AWAY from the very rich and give them to real people or public infrastructure again. Some start to get radical about it.
At that point, various top rich people start bankrolling fascism. Some fear some kind of vaguely socialist backlash and want a counterweight. Some just refuse the idea of compromising a little and giving back enough dough to keep society running. So they push the political solution that looks like it will change everything, so deeply unsatisfied people will back it, but which will actually change nothing that matters to the very rich (and will not solve any of the problems that got people upset in the first place, but once they're under fascist jackboots the plutocrats hope they then won't be able to do anything about it).
Sometimes the batshit crazy is out in the open and they still get a seat at the table.
"How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/conservative-us-network-undermined-indigenous-energy-rights-in-canada
A bit more information. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/united-people-canada-st-brigids-lowertown-ottawa-1.6523811
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