The Construct

The West's political class likes to think of itself as the leaders of the free world.

But what if we are not even free, and what happens when rulers don't recognize any limits on their power?

Bruce Pardy joins me on The Construct to discuss how social justice turned the law from a shield into a sword, why we have already breached the threshold of two-tier justice, and the paradox of the state, where you can't be free with it and you can't be free without it.

The failure of the West to recognize this inversion of law has led to bureaucratic tyranny. "We live in a managed society," says Bruce.

00:00 — Intro

00:54 — Why the Law Is Ambiguous

05:26 — Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law

10:13 — Are Courts Really Apolitical?

12:39 — When Judges Become Policymakers

15:02 — Canada’s Two-Tier Justice System

19:42 — Why the Law Is Losing Public Respect

20:44 — Can Morality Be the Basis of Law?

26:44 — What Does It Actually Mean to Be Free?

31:26 — Objective Reality vs. Individual Freedom

33:36 — Can Freedom Exist Without Shared Values?

36:24 — The Limits of Consent

38:46 — Does Individual Freedom Destroy Culture?

42:21 — Do Irrational People Still Deserve Freedom?

44:24 — Nozick’s Tale of the Slave

46:48 — Every Law Is Ultimately Backed by Force

48:44 — The Paradox of the State

50:46 — Why the U.S. Constitution Failed to Limit Government

53:02 — How Bruce Would Rewrite the Constitution

55:29 — Individual Justice vs. Group-Based Justice

57:32 — Reparations and Historical Group Claims

1:00:01 — Who Should Be Allowed to Become a Citizen?

1:03:11 — Why Immigration Restrictions Became Taboo

1:06:30 — The Rise of the Managerial State

1:08:50 — Delegation, Deference and Discretion

1:10:53 — Why Bad Policy Isn’t the Real Problem

1:12:15 — How Do You Fight an Invisible Bureaucracy?

1:14:30 — Why People Voluntarily Give Up Freedom

1:16:22 — Why Conservatives Keep Failing to Change the System

1:18:40 — Can Radical Reform Avoid Authoritarianism?

1:21:05 — Is Canada Beyond Reform?

1:23:22 — Good Constitution or Good People?

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What is totalitarianism and how does it operate?

There is a commonality between the worst of the 20th century regimes that is not often discussed. From crisis, propaganda, manufactured enemies and two-tier justice to surveillance, institutional capture, atomization and the destruction of competing loyalties, I outline the playbook.

Finally, I look at what happens when truth can no longer travel upward, the warning signs to watch for, and what individuals can do to resist the lie.

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00:00 Intro

01:41 Dictatorship vs. Totalitarianism

06:25 When Doctrine Becomes Total

08:51 Ressentiment and the True Believer

11:19 Crisis Creates the Opening

16:07 The Permanent Enemy

18:29 The Hollow Individual

23:15 Loneliness and the Totalitarian Man

25:41 Propaganda and Political Language

30:20 Doublethink and Paramoralisms

32:43 The Censor Inside Your Head

35:10 No Freedom of Silence

37:30 Rewriting the Past

42:13 Manufacturing Enemies

44:32 Mao’s Anti-Rightist Campaign

51:27 Two-Tier Justice

58:28 Pathocracy and Negative Selection

01:05:32 Forced Complicity

01:10:14 Dependency and the Command Economy

01:12:37 Surveillance and the Stasi

01:17:31 Why the Family Matters

01:22:10 When the Regime Goes Blind

01:26:58 Six Diagnostic Questions

01:31:38 The Antidote to Totalitarianism

01:34:01 Seven Types Under a Totalitarian System

01:36:23 Resistance Starts With the Individual

01:41:13 The Totalitarian Playbook Recapped

01:43:34 Technology Raises the Stakes

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Doomberg joins The Construct to explain why the West is losing World War III, as well as why its leaders may be too blinded by their own propaganda to see it.

We discuss the war in Ukraine, the collapse of the postwar order, Europe’s energy crisis, depopulation theories, and the growing power of Russia and China.

From energy and industrial capacity to lateral thinking and global conflict, this conversation examines whether the West’s decline is the result of incompetence or design.

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00:00 Energy, war and the fate of nations

01:29 The West isn’t playing chess

04:25 Is the chaos incompetence—or design?

08:30 Depopulation, degrowth and the Club of Rome

10:54 The real history of Malthusianism

17:08 Energy is life

21:52 Why Europe is dangerously exposed

26:29 Doomberg: Ukraine has already lost

30:21 Why nobody reads what Putin says

34:41 When leaders believe their own propaganda

37:04 Power, psychopathy and political delusion

41:06 World War III and the collapse of the old order

49:19 How Russia and China remember World War II

53:12 Competing narratives of global power

55:41 Who is ultimately responsible?

59:54 The illusion of linear causation

1:02:17 How lateral thinking works

1:07:01 Can America still police the world?

1:11:15 China and the destruction of Western industry

1:13:21 The dollar, Wall Street and the Pentagon

1:15:47 Where to find Doomberg

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What is Western civilization and is it in decline? Tom FitzGerald joins The Construct to discuss the forgotten achievements of the Middle Ages, the traits shared by history's greatest leaders, the morality of conquest and the ideological rewriting of the West's past. Lastly, we examine what historical films get wrong and why young men need heroes worth aspiring toward.

00:00 — What Defines Western Civilization?05:40 — Is the West Truly in Decline?11:54 — The Myth of the Dark Ages20:14 — Alexander the Great and the Leaders Who Made History28:15 — What History’s Greatest Men Had in Common37:13 — The Oppressor–Oppressed View of History46:04 — Conquest, Human Sacrifice and Just War55:48 — Colonization and the Myth of Inherited Guilt1:02:10 — How Hollywood Rewrites History1:10:51 — What Happens When a Culture Destroys Its Heroes1:19:48 — Historical Films, Higher Ideals and Lessons for Young Men

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Investigative journalist Sam Cooper reveals how foreign states, drug cartels and organized crime networks have infiltrated Canada’s institutions and economy.

We examine the criminal takeover of trucking routes, China’s theft of Western research and the political forces enabling it all.

Is Canada merely weak, or has the country become willfully blind to its own capture?

00:00 - Introduction

01:04 - Cartel-linked trucking networks in Canada

04:53 - How organized crime infiltrates the trucking industry

07:21 - The Wolfpack Alliance and Canada’s gang landscape

10:49 - Crime networks as transnational businesses

14:10 - Law enforcement, political pressure, and institutional inaction

18:48 - Elite networks, foreign influence, and national decline

25:06 - Where organized-crime money goes

29:31 - Is organized crime an unavoidable part of geopolitics?

34:06 - Trade disputes, alliances, and global security

40:14 - Manufacturing, tariffs, and strategic self-sufficiency

42:31 - COVID, biolabs, and the Winnipeg Lab questions

51:09 - China’s Thousand Talents Program and IP theft

55:15 - Culture wars, foreign influence, and social movements

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