Oh Canada

Living in New Hampshire I have certain opinions about our northern neighbors. Outside of the the French Canadians who inundate New Hampshire beaches in the summer, I really never gave them much thought. I just viewed them as 6 hockey rinks surrounded by bears.

But not anymore.

Canadian truckers took up the mantle of freedom and in doing so, they drove Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mad! Like Shays rebellion, this was a revolt from the common man against the Establishment’s overreach.

This movement is spreading south. American truckers are doing the same to President Joe Biden with a convoy departing Wednesday. Organizers report more than 1,000 trucks signed up to travel cross-country from California to Washington, DC, and anticipate the convoy will grow as it heads east.

This movement has many of the hallmarks of the Tea Party movement 12 years ago. Back then there was a feeling that bloated Democrat policies created a bureaucratic state fueled by burgeoning taxes. Average Americans stood up to this creeping statism and said stop.

It was one of the most important political events in recent history and we are still feeling its effects.

More than 3.5 million people work as truck drivers, according to the US Census Bureau, making it one of America’s largest occupations. Truckers are twice as likely as workers overall to be US veterans, but just 7% have a bachelor’s degree, versus 35% for all workers. They are more likely to have a disability and earn less than the median US worker.

Truckers work harder than the rest of us, too, with nearly half working longer hours than the average worker. Only about a quarter of workers generally work more than 40 hours a week.

Truckers are good, kind, patriotic, diligent, working-class people.

They’re America’s backbone.

Liberals pushing COVID vaccine and mask mandates clearly abandoned the working class, though they’re oblivious to the possible consequences: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this month on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” insisted Democrats will win in November because of “the empathy we have for America’s working families.”

The Democratic leader, caught breaking the rules maskless in a San Francisco salon, belongs to a liberal ruling class that believes it deserves separate, more lenient rules than those it imposes on the working class.

Pelosi’s on course for a wake-up call — the sound of a trucker’s air-horn blast.

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