November 9th, 2024 | RYAN TYLER

About That Great Reckoning 

Trump's decisive victory signals a seismic cultural shift, but Canada has ways to go.

As many had predicted, the presidential election was not close—it was a blowout. Donald Trump not only won the popular vote, he won every swing state by healthy margins. This wasn't a repeat of 2016, it was an improvement. It was a strong rebuke of entitlement, insanity, elitism, and the status quo. That great reckoning I was hoping for has arrived. As usual, Canada will be slow to catch up—but this is progress. The cultural shift isn't just happening in North America, it is happening everywhere and soon Canada won't have a choice.

The celebrities who spent decades protecting Harvey Weinstein and Diddy are no longer relevant. Their words and endorsements no longer mean anything. That's the most reassuring aspect of Trump's victory.

Most shockingly, however, is how women voted. To the dismay of Whoopi Golberg and her counterparts, white women turned out in massive numbers for Donald Trump. There wasn't so much a gender divide as there was a marriage divide. It turns out, married women have a wildly different worldview than purple-haired single moms. That could be what makes some of them single or married in the first place.

As for the racial divide, black women still fall for the old Democrat lies and the idea that Republicans are racist old white men—but, statistically, there are also more single black women than white women in America by ratio. Coincidentally or not, black women are the largest unmarried group in America.

I don't want to burden you with a deep dissection of why this all is. But, one culprit could be to blame for the political and cultural divide between unmarried and married women: modern feminism. You can disagree if you'd like, but modern feminism has made Western women more insufferable, more hateful, more arrogant, more righteous, and less appealing to most normal men.

We sure as shit aren't marrying these lunatics.

On the issue of abortion, it wasn't on the radar for most married women, for obvious reasons. Even so, since Roe-Wade was repealed, most states with bans on abortion are in the process of changing that. In the election, seven of ten states that have bans in place voted to repeal them or to expand access to abortions. Exit polls by mainstream news showed that abortion was only a major issue for 11% of voters, behind the economy and threats to democracy.

The threat to democracy is an interesting issue as well.

Exit polls gave Democrats hope when they saw that “democracy” was the second major issue on the minds of voters. They immediately assumed that their false rhetoric about Donald Trump being a fascist was sticking and driving their turnout. On the contrary, as the results show, people seem more concerned about the threat to democracy posed by Democrats.

Under Biden, Democrat district attorneys and judges prosecuted Trump for paltry crimes that have been committed by other politicians—like Bill Clinton—in the past. The reason none of this resonated with ordinary Americans is because they all know hush money payments are frequent and normal in politics. Everyone knows this shit happens regularly. As for developers and big businesses fudging their taxes and exaggerating the value of their assets—come on! They all do it.

The very fact that a majority of voters, particularly women, saw through all of this blatant corruption is proof that a major cultural shift is underway.

Furthermore, the fact that most Americans rebuked cancel culture, celebrity elitism, gender insanity, left-wing racism, pandemic mandates, and horrific social policies adds credence to what I call The Great Reckoning. Never mind The Great Reset—people have chosen a reckoning. They have chosen retribution, but not in the sense Democrats fear.

Sadly, for me, Donald Trump won't be the vessel for revenge I really want. When I heard he wanted to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, I was hopeful the media wasn't lying again. However, they were. He never said that. Just like he never told Americans to drink bleach, or just like how that insurrection wasn't really an insurrection. Like all other media lies, Donald Trump is not a fascist and he won't seek the kind of retribution people think.

The retribution will come by reforms.

Trump has vowed to drain the swamp for real this time. On Joe Rogan's podcast, he admitted the mistakes from his first term. Clearly, he has learned from those mistakes. That is what scares Democrats and the corrupt establishment so much. They know Trump's second and final term won't be anything like his first. This time, Trump will govern like it doesn't matter because he doesn't have to worry about being re-elected.

The first two years before the mid-term elections are going to be lit.

If all goes well, Trump will cram through all of his most important initiatives before Democrats have a chance to retake any part of Congress. If they're smart, the Republican senate and house will stay in line, because this was the mandate voters gave them. Most Republicans ran on Trump's message, so defying any of it would be political suicide.

Here's to hoping.

As for Canada, we're seeing signs of positive movement toward a reckoning—but I don't think it will be Conservatives that bring it home for us. Pierre Poilievre will ride the tide into office, but he won't bring the real changes we need. Even if he wanted to, he'd be knee-capped by an ideologically left-wing senate. Abolish the CBC? Forget about it. The senate will block that idea on the grounds of protecting Canadian culture, history, and heritage. They'll run a campaign that accuses Conservatives of trying to dismantle a valued medium of information, so they can get away with spreading their own “misinformation”.

You heard it here first. I can already see how it will go.

Poilievre will be prime minister for four years before Canadians get tired of him and his lack of ability to beat an unelected senate. The brainwashed left will begin to vehemently hate his smarminess, while conservatives get tired of his excuses and capitulation. Both sides will be fed up and annoyed with him by 2029 and give him the boot.

To avoid problems like this, Conservatives will need to re-open Harper's litigation of the senate. As of now, they haven't even mentioned it. They will need to start fostering the idea that the senate needs reform and that democracy must win. In their platform, as a part of their mandate, they must include senate reforms. Poilievre needs to start talking about the undemocratic nature of the senate and how his government would work to reform it. He needs to offer a referendum, or some sort of solution that would involve Canadians. Conservatives will need to find ways to make reforms stick, legally and constitutionally.

Right now, Conservatives are being typically weak.

Perhaps they're scared of invoking fear among senators by threatening them with reforms, or by attacking them. Maybe they think they can somehow win over or pacify an ideologically liberal senate before taking office, in hopes they won't have every single piece of Conservative legislation blocked out of spite. If this is the Conservative Party's strategy, it's not shocking. It is predictably weak and typically pathetic.

All the seismic cultural shifts we want could happen tomorrow, but nothing will change unless our leaders do.

Our flawed Westminster system puts too much power in the hands of political parties. These parties have only self-serving goals, like making money and therefore staying “electable”. This is why Harper never did anything radical or meaningful with his majority government. He wanted his new Conservative Party to gain confidence and to remain palatable to a majority of docile and low-info Canadians. As a result, real conservatives have nothing to show for any of it.

We need leaders that will treat their first four years like their last.

We need leaders committed to changing this country from the ground up. This reckoning and cultural shift will help build a groundswell underneath these leaders if they promise real changes, like senate reform and fundamental modifications to our political system—like, maybe, a democratically elected head of state to replace the governor general.

If you hold a party membership anywhere, regardless of your stripe, it's time to make these things happen.

Alternatively, voters could shift their votes to newer and more “extreme” parties. Breaking up the left-right paradigm into splinters would help Canada achieve some important milestones. As the electorate shifts to the right, the Liberal-NDP coupling will lose relevance and a door will open to diversify our country's political landscape. As this reckoning continues to unfold, we will be able to worry less about splitting our votes and risking another era of left-wing hegemony.

As the ground shifts beneath our feet, we have more opportunities than ever before.