Gandhi's patented method:
- Be strictly non-violent.
- Defy your enemies in such a way that their only options are to let you win or to resort to violence themselves.
- Watch enemy morale evaporate and the tide of public opinion turn in your favor.
It worked in India. Will it work in Canada?
The main difference is that Gandhi's enemies were men of honor, and their own strength in that regard was used against them. The moral jiu-jitsu may not work as well against spineless unprincipled -- the noun I want to add here will likely attract the attention of the hate police, so I'll just have to leave it to your imagination.
As others have been saying for a while now, Trudeau's only hope of winning this is to stage a convincing false-flag, undermining the Gandhi method by creating a virtual reality in which the violence was initiated by the Gandhi side. Multiple factors make a convincing false-flag much more difficult to pull off in this situation than it was, say, in DC last January, but if it's your only hope, it's your only hope. We'll see how it works out for him.
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"The main difference is that Gandhi's enemies were men of honor, and their own strength in that regard was used against them. "
Yes - Orwell made this point about Ghandi at the time; and suggested that under a totalitarian regime Ghandi's principles would have been ineffective, and his advocacy pacifism severely tested by the probability that it would lead to rapid defeat and then mass death.
Nowadays we have a deeply dishonest situation where the masses are simply manipulated into outrage against whatever the regime wants; and completely-ignore truly vast (world historical) moral horrors (which are instead regarded as Good) - yet are constantly preening themselves on their extraordinary capacity for non-judgmental universal compassion etc.
William,
As far as the trucking crisis, ask yourself ; Cui Bono?
If our Opponent' Final Frontier is depopulation, for example, wouldn't it benefit
our Opponents to create chaos in the very industry (one of many) that would help
in accomplishing their depopulation goal?
No Trucks, No Food.
The Trucking chaos has been brewing for a very long time( because of advancement in technology) way before the bird epidemic.
However, it will be the recent Freedom Convoy via the bird epidemic that will be blamed on the upcoming Food Crisis.
Brace for Impact.... We're close..
I know a little about Gandhi and the British Raj since I had a good friend who was ADC to the Viceroy of India during the early 1940s. Despite foibles and peccadilloes the British, especially the British in India, certainly were men of honour at that time who played by the rules of civilised behaviour. Gandhi's tactics would not have worked otherwise and I doubt similar tactics would work now without the weight of great numbers to back them up.
Following from William W - it now seems largely to have been forgotten that for the British upper classes, a position in the *Indian* Civil Service was regarded as the pinnacle of career ambition.
My understanding is that the exams and selection process for the Indian Civil Service were probably The most difficult examinations in existence in the Empire - e.g. more difficult than getting a first class degree at Oxford or Cambridge.
Eh, the whole Gandhi situation was probably just the creation of the Western media. Like an early George Floyd. There have been others such as Martin King. All part of the West's self-sabotage/mutational suicidality/Sorathic self-destruction.
Europe left the world in the middle of the 20th century. Indian decolonisation is part of that broader phenomenon.
Ben, my considered opinion is that Gandhi was the real deal, a genuine tactical genius, and that MLK successfully deployed some of the same tactics developed by Gandhi. (Gandhi himself credited Tolstoy and the Upanishads for his ideas, but Tolstoy was a dreamer; Gandhi was the first to successfully weaponize ahimsa.)
I would also say that modern "terrorism" (to the extent that it is a real thing) owes much to Gandhi, though of course it is not non-violent. The underlying principle is to be aggressive in such a way that your enemy can only respond by being much more violent, thus making them become the bad guys. In terrorism, the principle is to use individual, non-military violence to provoke a military response.
George Floyd was just some schmuck who happened to OD in police custody. He had no ideas or tactics and was in no way similar to Gandhi. That other black dude, I forget his name, who was unarmed, attacked a cop and tried to take his gun, and was killed -- that would be much closer to Gandhi tactics, if he had been acting deliberately. A sustained campaign of unarmed attacks on cops could be devastatingly effective.
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