The Trudeau government’s obsession with regulating, censoring and ultimately controlling what Canadians can see on social media is part of a much larger agenda of instructing Canadians on what and how to think.
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed this concern as “tinfoil hat” thinking last week when challenged, the great American conservative philosopher Thomas Sowell prophetically described what’s behind Trudeau’s thinking in his 1995 book, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
In so doing, Sowell eerily anticipates, more than a quarter-century ago, the political vision of Trudeau, his senior aides, cabinet ministers, MPs and government, whether the issue is internet censorship, climate change, gun control, immigration, race relations or equality of outcome versus equality of opportunity.
By contrast, Sowell observes, the anointed constantly demonize those who do not share their vision as, “not merely in error, but in sin … selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.
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