Friday, June 23, 2023

America Wake Up to Woke- Victor Davis Hanson

America Wake Up to Woke - Victor Davis Hanson 
"...Yet, the rainbow fabric of woke is now fraying - and for a variety of reasons.
  • For one thing, woke took off after the perfect storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, the devastating lockdowns, the 120 days of violent rioting and looting following the death of George Floyd, and years of endemic Trump Derangement Syndrome. Most of those catalysts are waning...
  • Two, woke is retrogressive, reactionary, and anti-civilizational. Decriminalizing the legal code, defunding the police, failing to apply norms to the homeless population, and destroying meritocracy have all hollowed out our major cities...
  • Three, in modern America, class is now a far more accurate metric of oppression than race or gender...
  • Four, religions also trump race...
The United States may have sponsored gender studies programs, flown pride flags, and bragged of George Floyd murals in Kabul. 
  • But meanwhile its military suffered the most humiliating defeat in a half-century, as it skedaddled from Afghanistan, leaving behind billions of dollars in deadly arms for terrorists.
  • Our elite work to ban plentiful natural gas, subsidize transgender activism abroad, and lecture on sexual identities in the military. 
  • China's elite builds dozens of coal and nuclear plants, and doubles the size of its navy, while preparing to absorb Taiwan.
Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left.

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