Countries that undergo a peaceful regime change from free and open to closed and less free, usually do so by accepting the gradual substitution of one set of values for another. They abandon what I call the Four Fs and begin accepting the Four Gs as their new belief system.
Radical Feminism
The first and perhaps most virulent of these is radical feminism, which seeks to overthrow the order of human biology by promoting the fantastical idea that the sexes are exactly the same and that any differences in the way they choose to live must result from brainwashing. Or that male and female gender is not natural, but “constructed” and freely chosen. But as Harvard professor Michael Levin once dryly suggested, “any parent who has raised both boys and girls and still thinks they are born the same, has already withstood more evidence to the contrary than any laboratory could possibly provide.”The Abortion/Euthanasia Movement
The second radicalism is the radical abortion/euthanasia movement, which attempts to end our age-old principle of the sanctity of life, thus to overthrow the order of love in society.Euthanasia is really an extension of the abortion movement (which is better thought of as “pediatric euthanasia”). The “right to choose” to kill someone inside you, a living child, easily mutates into adult euthanasia—the right to kill someone who asserts a right to be killed. Euthanasia was made a legal right in Canada in 2015 and is now practiced by physicians licensed to kill other citizens.
Radical Pansexualism
The third radicalism is the radical pansexual movement, of which the homosexual, pornography, polygamy, pro-incest, and now the transgender movements are connected parts. This radicalism seeks to overthrow the sexual order, especially the marital order, of western society, which is based on four prohibitions as to the number, gender, age, and blood-relation of legal sexual partners. This was the time-honoured belief that a marriage must be restricted to one partner at a time and that the partners must be of opposite sexes, cannot be beneath a specified age, and may not be close blood relatives.Educational Radicalism
The fourth radicalism is educational radicalism, and here we have a continuous attempt, as the Swedes put it (when radical elitists in Sweden in the 1960s decided to force a switch from the Four Fs to the Four Gs), “to divest the parents of their authority over their own children.” Now education radicals everywhere in the West, who see themselves as “change agents,” seek to overthrow the order of private family authority.The connection is from Plato, to Rousseau, to the likes of John Dewey, to teacher-training institutions like the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto and Columbia University in New York City. The strategy is to persuade the public that teachers are trustees of the nation’s children, not for the family but for the state. It was Canada’s Laurier LaPierre who in 1978, intoxicated with the vision of a top-down, redistributive state, declared that “the child is not a family child. He is an institutional child. It is not the school that is the extension of the home, but the home that is the extension of the school.”
Legal Radicalism
And finally, we have legal radicalism, the most powerful of all, emanating from law schools, law reform commissions, and tribunals and charters of every description, all of which are intent upon circumventing the democratic process.The chief instrument used in this subtle exercise in Canada is its 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Formerly sovereign and free legislators are now subordinate to legal dictates based on the Charter with respect to most things in life that really matter. The Charter specifically promotes and entrenches the notion of “substantive” equality (making people equal in real life) rather than the original “formal” equality (ensuring equal opportunity under law for all), and so radical egalitarian judgements and social programs get smuggled in under this mutated definition of equality by unelected judges whom no power in the land can remove.
This is a process that bypasses our formerly free legislative sovereignty and replaces it with a new judicial sovereignty. Canada, and many other democracies now identify whole classes of citizens to be favoured over other classes according to linguistic, gender, religious, ethnic, or other differences, in a blatant form of legal discrimination.
If you want more of this kind of equality, you need more government, and if you want total equality, you need total government.