NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The B.C. New Democrats will live to see another term. This means that wokeness will also live to see another term — but only if we allow it.
After more than a week of tedious recounts, and the tallying of more than 60,000 mail-in ballots — coalescing in a single riding and a handful of votes determining the election outcome — B.C. Premier David Eby managed to defeat John Rustad’s Conservative party and scrape together the slimmest of majorities.
Nevertheless, Eby may not be able to hang on for a full term, as the opposition is nearly as strong as his government. Even so, it has become a moral imperative for those who voted Conservative to blitz Eby’s wokeness by any means possible. British Columbia is on a downward trajectory with diminishing opportunities for a course correction. We simply cannot wait for another election to take action.
What exactly is “wokeness”? Its adherents dismiss the term as a childish, thoughtless gibe. It isn’t. Wokeness is a flavour of far-left social justice activism that hyper-focuses on identities — male, female, Black, white, straight, gay, transgender, whatever — and assigns a person’s moral worth according to each. You can be oppressed or an oppressor. A victim or a villain. Under the terms and conditions of this pseudo-philosophy, the oppressed class can do no wrong. And only a wicked and sinful oppressor would dare to challenge its crazed statutes.
Well, sinners: it’s time to get wicked. Woke has got to go.
Among Eby’s notably nefarious ordinances of wokeness: he supported disgraceful “harm reduction” policies until it was politically inconvenient to do so; he seems pained by the act of denouncing Canada’s antisemitism problem without a line about “all forms of hate” (without which he would be in violation of the woke narrative, which posits that Israel, and Israel alone, is a colonial aggressor); he promotes the notion that the province is infected by “systemic racism,” a beloved woke term with no clear, contemporaneous meaning.
His party passed “anti-racism” legislation and justified it by referring to their own government as a “colonial institution”; he has accused detractors of being hateful for pointing out the fact that transwomen are not, in fact, biological women; and he’s wholly incapable of balancing a budget, which is a byproduct of his fealty to wokeness — so much so that even the former leader of the B.C. Greens, a climate scientist, slammed Eby for his “radical ideological-driven activism.”
It is a stunning — and mortifying — feat to out-woke the Greens. Well done, Eby.
During Eby’s second term, the province’s opioid overdose crisis will worsen. Tent cities, and the poor souls within, will fester. The health-care system will further decay, while its bloated managerial and administrative class continue to swell. Swathes of doctors and nurses will unhappily toil away in a system that could pull in a dozen managers to work an overtime shift for each frontline staffer willing to do the same.
Also under Eby’s watch, parents like me will need to remain vigilant to ensure that teachers do not propagandize our children into believing that they possess “white guilt” for historical wrongs they had nothing to do with, or that they benefit from a “white male privilege” that, paradoxically, seems only to confer them with the scorn and disgust of others. With Eby in power, public schools will serve as youth indoctrination centres.
Still, things are far from hopeless. That a near-majority of British Columbians voted blue, in defiance of the bawdy and well-funded attack ads put out by Eby’s NDP, is proof that an army of citizens are woke apostates. We want to put an end to Eby’s “progressive” dystopia. Since we failed to elect someone to do it on our behalf, it is now incumbent upon us to do it ourselves.
We will have to be braver, and louder. We must do more than quietly marking an X on a ballot — we are now obliged to act. It is no longer an excuse to fear — or claim to fear — being the minority in the room.
It’s time to shamelessly whip out the Socratic method to put progressives on the spot: Do you really think that it’s fair for a biological male to win a women’s sporting competition? At what point in a man’s transition does he become a literal woman? You’re white — when was the last time you did something racist? Have fun with it.
Go speak as a delegate at city council meetings. Run for the school board. Infiltrate our institutions — or speak up if you’re already inside one. Write your elected officials, or union representatives, and tell them that you don’t support discriminatory laws or hiring policies that are disguised as forward-thinking.
There is no longer any excuse to feel shamed into silence over our anti-woke opinions. To be anti-woke is to hold the moral high ground — so go forth and act like it.
National Post