Betrayal is a devastating experience

Maybe that’s why so many people still can’t stand to hear the truth about COVID

I practiced primarily in the field of family law from 1985 to 2009. It was a stressful occupation because almost every client was going through one of the worst experiences of their lives and couldn’t help but be unhappy.

Couples got divorced for many reasons. Some quarrelled constantly over money. Many bickered over child-rearing, household responsibilities, in-laws or other things, eventually realizing they couldn’t stand each other and would be better off apart.

But the clients whom I observed to be the most devastated by their divorces were those who hadn’t seen it coming—the ones who suffered through betrayal. They were the people who thought they were in happy, loving, secure marriages—but didn’t realize that their spouse was secretly having an affair. When the truth finally came out, it turned their world upside-down. They would rack their brains to understand what they had done wrong to lose their spouse’s affection. They’d obsess over possible clues that they hadn’t previously thought significant. They’d question their own self-worth and the soundness of their judgement. 

It was even worse if their spouse had had the affair with someone they knew—a friend or even a sibling. Then they had been betrayed by two people they had loved and trusted. They had lost two reliable bulwarks in their lives and wondered whether it would ever be safe to trust anyone again. 

I think sometimes people did see the clues but chose to ignore or explain them away, knowing in the back of their minds the destruction it would bring to their lives if their worst fears were true. 

How this ties in with COVID-19

And this is the phenomenon that I believe we are now observing among peoples of the world who have been betrayed by their governments. They’re just waking up to the fact that they have been duped into taking injections that were supposed to be safe and effective (but aren’t), to protect them against an illness that was supposed to be extremely dangerous (but isn’t). 

They’ve been getting clues, perhaps from co-workers, friends or relatives, that all was not well with the COVID-19 “vaccines” but they’ve chosen to ignore the clues and label the bearers of bad news “conspiracy theorists” rather than face the devastating implications that their government has betrayed them and can never be trusted again. 

I was red-pilled into mistrusting government way back in 1970, when I first read Ayn Rand’s novels We the Living and Atlas Shrugged. Rand had learned the hard way—by living through the Russian revolution—about the nature of government. I always considered myself lucky that I had been able to benefit from her experience without having to live through civil war and communist tyranny myself. 

But I could definitely see it coming to Canada, creeping slowly at first but rapidly accelerating over the past twenty years or so. I look back nostalgically at this speech I gave in 2013 in which I discussed this phenomenon. 

Now it’s here, and while I’m not feeling betrayed, exactly—since I’ve know for fifty years that this is the nature of government—I am feeling disappointed that so few of my fellow Canadians are able (or perhaps, willing) to recognize it. 

Please do read Atlas Shrugged if you haven’t already. I know it’s a lot to ask in this day and age, when we are bombarded with engaging new click-bait every second of the day.  Most people’s attention spans won’t handle reading a 1,088-page novel any more. But give it a try. If you manage it, you’ll gain many insights. 

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