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The Impersonal Cruelty of 2nd Class Citizenship
How Crossroads Credit Union Betrayed Its Own Mandate and Why Big Banks Never Have To Face The Music.
The “system” of regulators protects them from accountability through an artifact of hyper specialization. Even as individual regulators do their best to work in a system broken by design, they accomplish nothing because specialists are deliberately trained to avoid the margins where generalists dominate. Hence why real people get marginalized in spite of anyone’s best intentions.
This is why protesting and freedom convoys matter. They address marginal problems when the bureaucrats can’t/won’t. This is the natural response when people are tired of being shoved to the back of the line to make room for so-called “more important people”.
I am a second class citizen because I don’t have a bank account anymore and I don’t want one. I was planning to get one again when Trudeau is out of office. Now I’m not so sure given the way the credit union has treated me for the last several months. I am a second class citizen in a country where “essential” services like banking are denied non-account holders. Even to the point where they won’t cash cheques people write to me for a fee. The policies they cite change as fast as their excuses.
