Canada is what happens when every major institution, media, finance, academia, tech, and the bureaucracy is aligned with a singular worldview which it enforces through narrative dominance.

This is not the description of an overt dictatorship, rather a soft totalitarianism “where citizens are told they are free while being passively managed into silence.”

This from americaoutloud.news.

The levers of control are all there:

– The press is government-funded and largely toothless. Journalists play the role of hall monitors, not investigators;

– Speech is filtered through hate speech laws and weaponized platforms, policed not by courts but by algorithms and outrage mobs;

– The financial system has been deputized, willingly, into ideological enforcement. During the trucker protests, Canadians watched as everyday people had their bank accounts frozen simply for donating to the wrong cause;

– Elections are shaped not by ballot stuffing but by narrative control, algorithmic suppression, and cultural hegemony; and

– Academia, corporate HR departments, and public institutions all speak the same language: the language of conformity dressed up as compassion.

The above is not hypothetical. It is what happens when a society forgets that freedom is not a mood or a feeling as much as it is an ongoing responsibility.

Canada no longer has that structure. Canada has the form of a democracy, but the substance of something else entirely.

And the United States is not immune from this. If anything, we were accelerating faster than Canada until we thankfully hit an orange wall named Donald Trump.

By the mid-2010s, unbeknownst to the masses, the foundations were being laid:

– Intelligence agencies were leaking to shape media narratives;

– Tech companies began building moderation systems aligned with state and NGO priorities;

– COVID was used as a dry run for soft martial law, complete with worship bans, travel restrictions, business closures, and vaccine papers;

– The Hunter Biden laptop story was buried on demand, dismissed as Russian disinformation by the same intelligence community that knew it was real;

– Banks began dropping customers for political views. Payment platforms began freezing funds for ideological misalignment; and

– The media largely merged with the bureaucratic state, with both taking orders from the DNC.

We were headed toward the same fate as Canada. We had already merged government (the bureaucrats that is—not necessarily the elected officials), media, tech, finance, and culture. All that remained was enforcement.

NOTE: The War on Words is about weaponizing connotation with no regard for denotation, and the truth is words like ‘Fascist’ and ‘Nazi’ do not only sound bad—they have dangerous connotations.

They told us Trump was a fascist, and they still do.

Trump is rude. Trump yells and says things you aren’t supposed to say.

Trump offends the class that considers itself immune to criticism, but fascism isn’t about how you talk; it’s about how you govern.

And Trump’s governance was actually anti-authoritarian in practice:

– He slashed federal regulations to historic levels;

– He resisted centralized pandemic control, deferring to state leadership;

– He appointed judges who interpret laws as written, not as desired;

– He undermined, not strengthened, the permanent bureaucracy; and

– He didn’t use the surveillance state to crush dissent, but the surveillance state [was] used [against him] to try to stop him from winning elections.

If anything, Trump exposed how little control the elected president actually has over the institutions that claim to serve him. He revealed the deep state, not by dismantling it, “rather by stepping on its tail and forcing it to strike.”

Trump had three necessary things going for him that made him untouchable by the elite:

 – Wealth to fight back and self-fund;

 – Notoriety, having already been scandalized, he had nothing to lose; and

 – Instinct. Trump likes the fight and thrives on the enemy’s outrage.

One huge but simple reason Trump won and Poilievre [the conservative in Canada] lost: Canada has no free press. Even Canadian outlets that are not literal arms of the state are so heavily subsidized they have effectively become mouthpieces for it. Add in censorship and regulatory overreach, and whatever democratic façade remains is laughable.

Free speech and an independent press are not luxuries. They are the bedrock of a free society. We have largely lost both here in America, but the Bill of Rights still gives us protections Canadians do not enjoy, and in 2024, that was enough.

Now, let us hope and pray President Trump remains healthy and energetic.

J.D. Vance may be smart, serious, and strategic just like Trump, “but he is more vulnerable.”

The caution is:

Vance doesn’t have the insulation Trump has. Vance can be touched.

God speed to the Trump-Vance team.