{"id":1292637,"date":"2022-02-11T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1292637"},"modified":"2022-02-11T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T04:22:49","slug":"entrepreneur-vivek-ramaswamy-to-bill-maher-trucker-protests-in-canada-an-uprising-of-everyday-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/entrepreneur-vivek-ramaswamy-to-bill-maher-trucker-protests-in-canada-an-uprising-of-everyday-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy To Bill Maher: Trucker Protests In Canada \u2018An Uprising Of Everyday Citizens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fentrepreneur-vivek-ramaswamy-to-bill-maher-trucker-protests-in-canada-an-uprising-of-everyday-citizens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1292637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VR-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy told HBO host Bill Maher on Friday that the trucker protests in Canada were not a Left or Right issue, and that it was about everyday citizens rising up against overreaching governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I think it is about something more; if you think this is about vaccine mandates, or about white supremacy, you\u2019re missing the point. And this isn\u2019t a Left or Right issue,\u201d Ramaswamy, a founder of multi-billion dollar companies, said. \u201cThis is about an uprising of everyday citizens in democracies around the world. It\u2019s not just Canada, it\u2019s not the United States, it\u2019s western Europe, too, rising against the biggest threat to actual democracy, which I think is the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world that are crushing the will of everyday people through bureaucracies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s the same people, by the way, Bill, who staff corporate boards of directors, who end up as associate deans of universities, who then end up being appointed as diplomats abroad,\u201d he continued. \u201cThese are the unelected class of leaders that ultimately, I think, are using their bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday, not only Americans, but Canadians and western Europeans, too. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re seeing a fusion of both the Left and the Right here saying that actually, we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table. And you know what? The beautiful thing about a democracy is that so far, thank God, this has been a peaceful set of protests. I hope it says stays that way. That\u2019s part of the messiness of democracy. That\u2019s part of what makes it beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, I was a biotech CEO after the George \u2014 when the George Floyd protests played out in 2020,\u201d he later added. \u201cI was still a biotech CEO back then, back then, every institutional elite in America, in other countries around the world, but especially in America, would step up and say what we need to do is we need to listen and open our hearts and minds. And I think those same institutional leaders would now do well to take a page from that playbook and listening to these truckers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>BILL MAHER, HBO HOST: All right. So I want to talk about Canada to start off because I feel like the eyes of the world are on them and we don\u2019t talk about Canada enough. We should, because our show has been on in Canada for a long time. But we\u2019re so, you know, Americans [we\u2019re] chauvinistic about our own country, this stuff going on up there, well now everybody\u2019s looking at Canada because there\u2019s this giant trucker protest, I guess. See, I wasn\u2019t that into it for the first couple of weeks because it \u2026 looked like it was just a small group of people, and it is a minority, it was first about vaccine mandates the truckers have to get, 90% are vaccinated. But they\u2019re crossing the border. This goes both ways. Some of them then when they started the protests had Nazi flags, which of course, is going to look bad and is bad. \u2026 Sometimes the Nazi flag means I\u2019m a Nazi and sometimes it means you\u2019re a Nazi. I\u2019m calling you a Nazi. So, I don\u2019t know what this is, but it\u2019s not the most of the people there. What\u2019s happening this week, it looks like, is people are understanding that this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate. It\u2019s becoming a big thing. It\u2019s happening all over the world now. They think it might happen here in Washington on Super Bowl Sunday. Do you agree it\u2019s about something more? And if so what?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>VIVEK RAMASWAMY: Look, I think it is about something more; if you think this is about vaccine mandates, or about white supremacy, you\u2019re missing the point. And this isn\u2019t a Left or Right issue. This is about an uprising of everyday citizens in democracies around the world. It\u2019s not just Canada, it\u2019s not the United States, it\u2019s western Europe, too, rising against the biggest threat to actual democracy, which I think is the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world that are crushing the will of everyday people through bureaucracies. And it\u2019s the same people, by the way, Bill, who staff corporate boards of directors, who end up as associate deans of universities, who then end up being appointed as diplomats abroad. These are the unelected class of leaders that ultimately, I think, are using their bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday, not only Americans, but Canadians and western Europeans, too. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re seeing a fusion of both the Left and the Right here saying that actually, we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table. And you know what? The beautiful thing about a democracy is that so far, thank God, this has been a peaceful set of protests. I hope it says stays that way. That\u2019s part of the messiness of democracy. That\u2019s part of what makes it beautiful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MARIANNE WILLIAMSON:&nbsp;I believe that democracy&nbsp;is messy, and that\u2019s the price you pay in a way for a free society, as long as we\u2019re going to honor free expression, protest is important, but also protest is inherently disruptive. So the line we have to find for ourselves is where does disruption become harm? These people have spoken, they have expressed themselves, they have a lot of passion behind their message, obviously, and what the Canadian government and any government has to then balance is, at what point does this now move over into more than your grievances, but the grievances of people, such as workers in Detroit and elsewhere, who are finding economic harm because of these of these protests? I think it\u2019s interesting this issue of our looking at Canada, because, you know, these protesters are not attacking their capital. And their government is not bringing out, they\u2019re not attacking the building, I mean they\u2019re in Ottawa, they\u2019re in front of the Capitol, but they\u2019re not attacking the Capitol building.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAHER: Right. And they\u2019re not trying to stop an election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WILLIAMSON: Well, but my point is, there\u2019s no violence in what they\u2019re doing, even though swastikas are not funny \u2026 but those are outliers there. Yes. My point is that in a way, we get to see that this can be done in a way that does not bring violence with it. I think for Americans, it\u2019s actually something to look at there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAHER: But I\u2019m asking you about the bigger issue here is like, why is this and why truckers, and I thought, you know, like during the pandemic, you know, I talked about this many times, you know, we would see these ads \u201cwe\u2019re all in it together,\u201d and I think, \u201cno, we\u2019re not. No, we\u2019re not.\u201d There are some people who stay home. And some people who bring them the food. You know, if you\u2019re just ordering Amazon, and you don\u2019t ever have to go out, and your job you can do remotely, but who\u2019s bringing me Amazon things? The trucker. You know, it\u2019s, it was just, it looks, you did not use that word \u201celitist\u201d in your whole speech, but like, that\u2019s the word that I think is on people\u2019s tongues and minds, and I mean, that certainly is what populists, including bad ones like Trump, play on. But there is this idea, and it\u2019s not wrong, that some people are staying home in their Lululemons and other people, and you know, can afford to like, wait out and get a free vacation, and money from the government, and other people can\u2019t, and they\u2019re pissed off at the people who can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAMASWAMY: I think one step beyond that is this is also, furthermore, a group of people who have, further by the elites, been excluded in the name of capitalized inclusion. And so I was a biotech CEO after the George \u2014 when the George Floyd protests played out in 2020. I was still a biotech CEO back then, back then every institutional elite in America, in other countries around the world, but especially in America, would step up and say what we need to do is we need to listen and open our hearts and minds. And I think those same institutional leaders would now do well to take a page from that playbook and listening to these truckers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy told HBO host Bill Maher on Friday that the trucker protests in Canada were not a Left or Right issue, and that it was about everyday citizens &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}