The RCMP's "Revolt Is Coming" Memo Shows Why Western Societies are on the Brink
“The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations"
Amongst Americans, Canada used to be notable mainly because of the nice nature of those living within it, not for being a dystopian hellhole. That came to an end with the accession of power of Justin Trudeau, as he has systematically waged war on liberty within the country and turned it into a Western version of the PRC.
Free speech is gone,1 normal people are priced out of owning property,2 gun confiscations are ongoing,3 and its COVID response would have made Trudeau’s father, Fidel Castro,4 blush. Meanwhile, its economic prospects are bleak,5 particularly for young people, and migrants are flooding in, with Trudeau’s welcome, by the millions.6
In short, it went from being a Western land of liberty to a chilly despotism. But then, with the trucker revolt, the WEF-type elites of Trudeau’s sort received a shot across the bow: the downtrodden kulaks within their state showed they could fight back and win.7 Now citizens of other tyrannical, globalist states joined in, with farmers across Europe using their equipment to do everything from spraying government buildings with manure to blocking roads with tractors.
It is in that context, one of both growing tyranny across the once-free West and small but spirited revolts that can cause major economic dislocations, as the Canadian truckers did, that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) released a report in which they show that growing youth disillusionment with society could lead to a revolt.
The RCMP Report: Canada’s “Leaders” Are Freaking Out
In the report, titled “Whole of Government Five-Year Trends for Canada,” the RCMP warns that growing global issues and an economic recession could cause major problems for the Canadian state.
Doing so, it wrote, "The global community has experienced a series of crises, with COVID-19, supply-chain issues, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine all sending shockwaves throughout the world.” It continued, "The situation will probably deteriorate further in the next five years, as the early effects of climate change and a global recession add their weight to the ongoing crises."8
Later on, the report notes something that many people are starting to notice, but loathe to say: living standards are on a downtrend for normal people in Western societies. It said (emphasis ours): "The coming period of recession will also accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations . . . For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live. The fallout from this decline in living standards will be exacerbated by the fact that the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations."9
Such a state of things has long been intolerable to Westerners. In fact, normal people being unable to own a home is one of the very issues on which Tiberius Gracchus focused during his meteoric ascent. Plutarch recorded Tiberius’ famous speech on the matter, in which he contrasted the dire state of the sons of Rome with the elite’s decadent way of living. In the moving address, he said, “The wild beasts that roam over Italy... have every one of them a cave or lair to lurk in; but the men who fight and die for Italy enjoy the common air and light, indeed, but nothing else; houseless and homeless they wander about with their wives and children. And it is with lying lips that their [commanders] exhort the soldiers in their battles to defend sepulchres and shrines from the enemy; for not a man of them has an hereditary altar, not one of all these many Romans an ancestral tomb, but they fight and die to support others in wealth and luxury, and though they are styled masters of the world, they have not a single clod of earth that is their own.”10
Much like the Roman patricians terrified of Gracchus and the yeoman-friendly populism he stood for, the RCMP, on behalf of the Canadian regime, hysterically warned that such a recession would lead to “conspiracy theories” and “populism.” “Capitalizing on the rise of political polarization and conspiracy theories have been populists willing to tailor their messages to appeal to extremist movements,” the RCMP ominously wrote.11 Another section of the report added, “Law enforcement should expect continuing social and political polarization fueled by misinformation campaigns and an increasing mistrust for all democratic institutions.”
Unfortunately, much of the rest of the memo was redacted, particularly the sections on populism and loss of faith in democratic institutions. So, we don’t know what else the RCMP claimed about those “conspiracy theories” and scary “populists.” But what is obvious from the report is that a) the global elites, as represented by Canada’s WEF-friendly government,12 are sensing that the kulaks are increasingly bitter about declining economic and cultural prospects and so are hostile to them and b) are going to go all out to frame that dissent as “extremism” rather than a just expression of popular outrage requiring substantial policy changes to rectify.
Of Rot and Worry
But are the economic issues to which the disgruntled population is reacting mere “conspiracy theories”? No, they are not.
Take the issue of housing. Expensive across the West generally, the price of housing has reached particularly obscene levels of expense in Canada. The National Post, reporting on it, noted:13
Meanwhile, housing affordability has reached “worst-ever” levels in most of Canada’s major markets, according to a December analysis by RBC. On average, even condos are now so unaffordable that only 44.5 per cent of Canadian households had sufficient income to buy one at current prices. As for single-family homes, only the richest 25 per cent of Canadian households had any hope of obtaining one.
In fact, Canada’s housing market is so expensive that it has well outpaced the United Kingdom, known for its costly real estate since at least the 19th Century, if not earlier:
Notably, that comes despite the UK being composed of islands continuously inhabited, and thus built on, for millennia, whereas Canada is still composed of mostly virgin territory that has only been settled in a real way since the mid-19th Century. So, why is Canadian housing so expensive? The regime made it so: “The chief reason Canada’s housing is more expensive is the greater barriers to entry for new construction: more urban containment, lengthier approval processes and costlier licensing. Any reduction in supply elevates the market price.”14 In other words, housing in Cana
da doesn’t have to be so expensive as to price out three-quarters of the population, including nearly every young person. But, thanks to the leftist government’s delusional climate change beliefs and love of regulation, the price of housing has shot through the roof and young people have, to quote Tiberius, “not a single clod of earth that is their own.”
The same could be said of most problems the West faces. Take any issue, from the looming unfunded liability crisis15 to the massive cost of mass migration,16, and it’s obvious that things don’t have to be this way. The border doesn’t have to be open. Boeing airplanes don’t have to be falling apart.17 DEI demands don’t have to be so onerous as to chase away semiconductor companies offered generous subsidies.18 Social Security could be saved, although the hour is getting late.19
But, despite things not needing to be in a dire way, they are. And often, it’s because “liberal democracy” encourages them to be.
Tyson Foods is replacing tens of thousands of Americans with 40,000 illegal immigrants whom it is providing with immigration lawyers.20 It’s supported by a pro-migration Biden program in doing so.
Hospitals have too few qualified doctors and nurses.21 Yet DEI mandates, which are effectively mandatory thanks to the Civil Rights Act, force out qualified staff,22 much to the pain of patients left with unqualified DEI hires instead. South Africa shows us the ugly way in which this DEI obsession ends,23 yet the regime continues its course regardless.
Speaking of DEI, nearly every day shows “teens” conducting yet another vicious attack on school grounds. Missouri student Kaylee Gaine, for example, horrifically had her head bashed into the concrete by a “diverse” teen. She’s nearly dead. Why did that happen? Because her school, like most public schools, put DEI before student safety and instruction quality.24 The school didn’t even bother to mention the nearly-murdered Kaylee in a statement, much less reverse course on its disastrous DEI policies.
In each and every case, the regime’s ideology is at fault. From Trudeau and Biden at the top to the DEI-obsessed administrators of Kaylee’s school and America’s hospitals at the bottom, the powers that be hate the West as it used to be and have set out to destroy it. They chased the qualified native-born from the best jobs and schools, used mass migration to deflate wages, used inflation to wipe out savings and make the middle-class live paycheck to paycheck, used overregulation to stifle small businesses and drive housing into the stratosphere, and unleashed criminals on our communities in calculated campaigns of anarcho-tyranny.
In each of those examples, their ideology of an anti-hierarchal, open society paired with global free trade and Keynesian economics both led to the terrible outcome and justified it. If you need more evidence, just look to their smug “learn to code” response25 when told about closing coal mines and shuttered factories across the heartland: because TVs from China are theoretically a nickel cheaper and the local Mexican cantina has relatively cheap tacos, they’re okay with hollowing out the country. Their ideology tells them to be, and is what led to that disastrously bad outcome.
But now people are starting to wake up to it. As the RCMP report notes, citizens are looking around and realizing they don’t live in the lands they thought they did. Prosperity is fading fast. They have no clod of earth to call their own. Their governments are importing competition for jobs. Criminals rule the streets with the tacit, if not outright, approval of police forces that will crack down on you for stopping the criminals while letting the criminals roam free.26 And the oligarchs get richer and live debauched and depraved lives while your wages fail to even keep up with inflation. That’s the world the regime has created, and it’s starting to get terrified that people are realizing it.
If you enjoyed this article, please consider supporting The American Tribune by leaving a like or upgrading your subscription to paid.
Liking makes a big difference: by engaging with this post, you help amplify it and bring many new people to the TAT project.