{"id":5413,"date":"2022-03-10T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2022-03-10T07:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:38:59","slug":"convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>If you liked Smokey and the Bandit (1, 2, and 3) then you had to love 1978\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SERnoR0jAu4\">CONVOY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTHERE MUST BE A MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEWS BLACKOUT \u2013 \u201cGOOD BUDDY!!!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;WHERE\u2019S THE WALL TO WALL COVERAGE OF \u2013 THE CONVOY!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ottawa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In life and in politics, there\u2019s something called \u201ca window of opportunity\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a simple concept:&nbsp;&nbsp;there\u2019s a \u201cmagic time\u201d when all of the trends point to a single action.&nbsp;&nbsp;For the fortunate, that manage to do the right thing at the right time; they can change the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian Truck protests were a prime example of the \u201chitting\u201d the moment.&nbsp;&nbsp;A small number (ten percent?) of Canadian truckers were furious with the vaccine mandates required to cross the US border.&nbsp;&nbsp;The mandates were on both sides, both Canadian and US policies.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the truckers protested the Canadian rules, by driving their trucks into the national capital of Ottawa, and paralyzing the town.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They wouldn\u2019t leave.&nbsp;&nbsp;And Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister, was loath to use offensive police action to remove them.&nbsp;&nbsp;So the Canadian truckers got a world stage in the streets of Ottawa and at the border crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trudeau<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many felt that Trudeau should have acted sooner, and ordered the police and the tow trucks into Ottawa.&nbsp;&nbsp;But perhaps Trudeau realized that the truckers were already \u201clate\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their \u201cwindow\u201d was closing.&nbsp;&nbsp;The science was clear that the Omicron variant of Covid was burning through and burning out.&nbsp;&nbsp;Soon the infection, hospitalization and death rates would drop as quickly as they went up.&nbsp;&nbsp;In short, the longer Trudeau waited, the less the truckers had to complain about.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian truckers hung around for almost a month.&nbsp;&nbsp;Finally Trudeau declared a national emergency, and with very little violence, the vehicles were cleared and \u201cnormal\u201d life was restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eastbound and Down<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But the trucking protests resonated in the United States. Much of the Canadian trucker financing already came from US sources.\u00a0\u00a0Canadian trucks even had pro-Trump signage.\u00a0\u00a0If it worked in Canada, a country that pretty much went along with all of the Covid protocols, then it should be HUGE in the United States where Covid wasn\u2019t seen as a public health issue at all.\u00a0\u00a0It was completely politicized, divided along partisan lines.\u00a0\u00a0Americans who erroneously felt that Donald Trump won the Presidency, were generally against every public health measure to control Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there is a long tradition of trucking protests, so big, that in the late 1970\u2019s they made a major motion picture about it \u2013 CONVOY!\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0\u00a0had big-time actors, with Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, and even Ernest Borgnine.\u00a0\u00a0It was about a \u201cprotest\u201d of local traffic controls that became a national truck protest,\u00a0\u00a0and it resonated with an America that was fatigued from the Vietnam War protests, hippies, and the upheaval of the Watergate Era.\u00a0\u00a0We went from anti-war protest rallies and songs about martyred students (<em>Four Dead in Ohio<\/em>) to disco,\u00a0<em>Staying Alive<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Smokey and the Bandit (1,2, and 3, the one with the elephant)\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0and finally\u00a0<em>CONVOY<\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grievances<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a perfect fit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some Americans were frustrated with the Covid mandates \u2013 demanding personal \u201cFREEDOM\u201d from masks and vaccines.&nbsp;&nbsp;And they were truly angry that Joe Biden won the Presidential election.&nbsp;&nbsp;They longed for a simpler time, when issues like diversity and pandemics weren\u2019t problems &#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;the \u201cgood old days\u201d, like the late 1970\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;So a trucker protest, starting in California and unifying the entire nation as it crossed to Washington DC seemed like a perfect \u201cvehicle\u201d (hah!) for their grievances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trucks began in Adelanto, California, outside of Los Angeles, and slowly (about 350 miles a day) made their way across the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were ultimately about 150 trucks, and many more pickups and cars that joined up the procession as it moved across the American interstate highway system.&nbsp;&nbsp;The convoy was well coordinated with local and state police, and politely avoided disrupting the city centers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there was support.\u00a0\u00a0From many suburban and rural overpasses and exits, small groups gathered with American flags, Trump signs , and \u201cDon\u2019t Tread on Me\u201d banners to show their agreement with the honking parade.\u00a0 Donated feasts were laid out at the overnight rest stops by Convoy &#8220;groupies&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Too Late<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem for the convoy organizers, was that the \u201cwindow\u201d was already closed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Literally as they crossed the country, state after state dropped mandatory mask mandates for their cities and schools.&nbsp;&nbsp;That wasn\u2019t in reaction to the Convoy, but in response to the science.&nbsp;&nbsp;Omicron was burning out, and the mandates were no longer necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regular media stopped covering the Convoy as a political statement, and dealt with them more as a traffic hazard.\u00a0\u00a0And then, Russia invaded Ukraine.  All of the media &#8220;oxygen&#8221; went out of the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cConvoy\u201d is still out there, staying at the Hagerstown Speedway in Maryland, about ninety minutes west of Washington, DC.\u00a0\u00a0Sunday through Tuesday, they lined up and drove I-70 east to the I-70\/I-270 split to Washington.\u00a0\u00a0Then onto the DC outer-belt, Interstate 495, for a sixty-four mile loop around the Capital.\u00a0  Wednesday it rained, and they stayed in Hagerstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they didn\u2019t go \u201cinto DC\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0They made great efforts to prevent the unending traffic nightmare of the DC beltway from getting worse.\u00a0\u00a0And their issues:\u00a0\u00a0mask mandates and Covid restrictions, continued to disappear.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s nothing more frustrating; they missed their \u201cwindow\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cConvoy\u201d is irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Below the Fold<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0moved the \u201cConvoy\u201d story from the front page on Sunday, to \u201cbelow the fold\u201d in the Metro section on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cConvoy\u201d leaders met with Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, to discuss government mandates.\u00a0\u00a0But that discussion becomes more \u201cacademic\u201d by the day.\u00a0\u00a0Even the\u00a0<em>Washington Times<\/em>, a conservative newspaper sympathetic to the \u201ccause\u201d, had only a five sentence article buried in their metro section on Wednesday morning (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/7\/ted-cruz-ron-johnson-meet-peoples-convoy-truckers\/\">Wash Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Convoy organizers face a choice.\u00a0\u00a0They can complete their week-long protest, circling the DC outer-belt with faint views of the Washington Monument and the Capitol building, then head back off into the countryside.\u00a0\u00a0Or, they can try to \u201craise the stakes\u201d and force their column into town, hoping to circle the National Mall.\u00a0\u00a0That will get them back on the \u201cfront page\u201d, as a traffic hazard and disruption.\u00a0\u00a0But it won\u2019t change their misfortune \u2013 their window of opportunity is firmly closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTen-Four Good Buddy \u2013 time to put the hammer down and head for the barn.\u00a0\u00a0See you on the flip-side\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked Smokey and the Bandit (1, 2, and 3) then you had to love 1978\u2019s&nbsp; CONVOY \u201cTHERE MUST BE A MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEWS BLACKOUT \u2013 \u201cGOOD BUDDY!!!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;WHERE\u2019S THE WALL TO WALL COVERAGE OF \u2013 THE CONVOY!!!!!\u201d Ottawa In life and in politics, there\u2019s something called \u201ca window of opportunity\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a simple concept:&nbsp;&nbsp;there\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/convoy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Convoy&nbsp;&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Convoy&nbsp; : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Convoy is still circling Washington DC. 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