July 1st, 2025 | Grant Johnson

Be Done With Them

We have been forced to tolerate them and to live within their progressive frame long enough.

Recently a post on Small Dead Animals complained about dealing with Canadian “normies” regarding politics. Specifically this section was of interest:

“I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve completely given up discussing American politics with assorted friends who are clearly infected with TDS and stuck on narratives that are fueled by ignorance. What’s discussed in this video is a simple litmus test. If a person, watching this, can’t understand why Trump is succeeding and the Democrats are failing, it’s clear that they’re lost. It really is pointless to engage in any American political discussion.”

American politics as a touchstone is one thing, but normies in Canada are propagandized into following progressive narratives in regard to everything. The more highly educated they are the more they tend to toe the system’s line. It’s also a class-based thing I believe, because it has been my experience that working-class people who care about these things will boldly hold whatever opinion they damn well please, whereas social status-seeking climbers tend to discern what the propaganda is saying and try to follow what it is they think they need to believe. 

As Conservatives, or right-wing dissidents, we are accustomed to living in a country in which the progressive hegemony sets the standard and then everyone toes the line. For whatever reason, we stand outside of the system and see it for what it is. Most don’t. It’s been this way for a long time, so we’re used to it.

A few things have changed in the past five years, however, and the status quo of living in a “liberal bias” is starting to change.

The internet was in its mainstream infancy when I was a kid. The Commodore 64 was introduced as a home computer back when this stuff was basically a tech toy. Movies like War Games and Tron introduced audiences to the concept of interconnected computers talking to each other. 

By the the 90’s the internet was breaking out wildly and message boards and blogs were popping up like flowers in a field. By the early 2000’s the power of the internet was obvious and for those of us heavily online the future was NOW. 

Except it wasn’t. 

Being on the cutting edge of internet culture and technology gave political junkies like myself enormous amounts of heterodox energy, but the normies were still watching CBC’s The National and reading newspapers. It was hard to accept, but we were still in a bubble, and the bubble was expanding. 

By the time Trump won his first term, I thought this was surely a turning point. The internet is going to be a prime mover now. This is where people will get their info and the gatekeepers are all going to die. But I was way too early again.

Covid does seem to mark a certain turning point in terms of waking people up, but it also sadly revealed that some people will never wake up and will cling to the system narrative no matter what. The subsequent passing years has only entrenched this fact. The great polarizing culture brought on by Covid is getting worse not better. As the media eco-system on our side has developed into a powerhouse of podcasts, YouTube channels, Substacks and websites, the media landscape is only getting better and better. We don’t have to riff on whatever garbage CTV farts out over tv land anymore. We’re all doing our own stuff and our own stuff is better than the “mainstream” progressive alternative.

This is making “dealing with normies” more difficult for us. I don’t know about you, but I have lost interest and patience with libtard NPCs. I’m usually pretty generous and I like to connect with people in whatever way I can, but there’s a handful of people I know that are incredibly basic bitch shitlibs and I just can’t be bothered to deal. 

They parrot the prog lines in such a manner that they aren’t looking for conversation or ideas, they’re just looking to broadcast that they believe the thing that they are told they are supposed to believe and consequently, they are on the right side of the culture. For them, it’s a flex to regurgitate tv talking points because it signals to other people where they think they stand within the progressive orthodoxy and they assume it represents prestige. 

There’s no correcting this because if you present an opinion or perspective that doesn’t conform to their orthodoxy, they don’t listen, learn or even engage. They aren’t interested in hetrodox views, it only signals to them that you aren’t what they thought you were and clearly you’re dumb for falling for misinformation, or you are evil for accepting disinformation. 

I’ve had enough.

I’ve politely existed within a leftist progressive culture for most of my life. I’ve existed within a hardcore, Woke progressive culture for the past ten years. I’ve suffered fools gladly and I’ve extended grace broadly, but I’m pushing 50 and time is of the essence. I’m quite literally getting too old for this shit. 

Choosing who you are around is crucial and while it’s okay to have differences of opinion…some of my closest friends hold wildly different views than me…the thoughtless, mainstream shitlibs both in media and in real life simply aren’t worth bothering with. Doing almost anything else with your time is more valuable. 

I wrote this article about preparing for Canada's economic decline last month and we should carry over this attitude into our philosophies in life. Build relationships that don’t require masking yourself. Enjoy media that isn’t shitlib propaganda. Quit arguing and trying to compel idiots. Political debate is mostly just distraction from action. Free yourself from the sludge of the progressive past. We don’t need CBC. We don’t need cultural narratives. We don’t need democracy. 

We need action. 

Personal, professional, spiritual and cultural action. 

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