Posted on 05/10/2021 11:41:48 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Edited on 05/10/2021 1:27:46 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution.
The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90 million castle, as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top executives of Coke, Target, and Delta Airlines believe their $17 million-a-year salaries make them experts on the crimes of non-diversity, exclusion, and inequity. Anytime revolutionaries at the outset of their enterprises seek exemption from the consequences of their own ideology, we know their plans will end badly for everyone else.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Sometimes this all seems like a bad dream, if I get woke up will it stop ?
Should I start drinking coffee ?
I dumped TV news in 1997. The only wokism I see is what I see here. It my day to day life it doesn’t exist.
Well, that may be because 10 years ago I left the city (Seattle) for a 32 acre hobby farm in rural Kentucky.
My grass and trees and chickens and dog are not woke. My wife DEFINITELY is not. And they are the only ones I talk to, except for church, where they are not woke either.
the words to use when confronted with it are: SO WHAT?
over and over with each presentation: SO WHAT?
Victor David Hanson alleges Americans are now terrified or fear -
“the FBI of James Comey vintage,
John Brennan’s legacy at the CIA,
the same old IRS of Lois Lerner,
the Justice Department once branded by Eric Holder,
the predictable court order of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
inquisitional [military] officers,
the once-revered FBI [now] become analogous to the Stasi,
the once indomitable CIA after 2015 [now] emulating the KGB, and
the federal prosecutor [becoming] a vindictive Inspector Javert.”
The emotions that are most dominant in patriotic Americans are total and complete disgust and revulsion for the leaders in these organizations, along with the outrage that these traitorous people in such organizations have not yet being arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, and publicly hanged for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
And the Americans’ disgust and revulsion spreads to cover those who appointed or confirmed those people into the organizations.
“ ...see whether a brief tap-in to the 10-minute screed suffices to pass the moronic multiple-choice, endless gotcha questions that follow.”
The best part of going Galt was to get away from this.
The work environment has devolved into the sadistic torture of whites.
I was pleased to see VDH admit academia’s failing in this, too. Institutions of learning, which should have been the last bastions of freedom of thought and expression, have, instead become the worst oppressors.
I believe this is all following the China model.
bkmk
*VDH bump*
PING!
IMO still the smartest man in the universe! I’ve upgraded him from in the “U.S.,” to in the universe!
Mock them and use their own rules against them.
Sounds to me like you’ve won the lottery of life!
Congratulations on making good decisions!
What can I do? In the face of the coming storm, what constructive actions can we take to conserve what works and protect ourselves? Here are a few actionable solutions anyone can adopt at a personal or local level.
Find your tribe. Network, meet in person. Social media can’t censor what you say in private. This also helps you emotionally, since you’re meeting with people who support you instead of mistaking the digital lynch mobs for what matters.
Preserve conservative institutions like churches, schools and clubs. Fight social justice infiltration or pressure to submit to liberal political demands like, “you really need a BLM lecturer in here, you’ll be good if you throw up our political symbols”.
Educate. Teach your kids your values at an early age, by reading stories that share your values. Don’t let the kids go to drag queen story time or social justice story time. Protest if the school or daycare does this, or if you’re not able to do that, take your kid out and discuss the protest with other parents. Abilene Paradox – people wrongly think that the official dictate is what everyone agrees with because no one says anything against it.
Buy books that explain the conservative worldview and defend it like those by Dennis Prager. Buy books that explain why liberals and conservatives are different without demonizing them like Jonathan Haidt’s works. And start book clubs reading these books. Hello, tribe!
Fight any attempt to add social justice to codes of conduct. For example, the National Association of Realtors just implemented a policy where you can be fined or expelled for “hate speech”, public or private. Other organizations have weaker versions of this, but expect it to ramp up.
Law, medicine and social work already have rules regarding this, equating trust and respect and empathy to liberal values - so you can’t get licensed if you don’t agree. Fight this, if you don’t want to be kicked out of professional organizations if you don’t pass the liberal political litmus test.
Hire conservatives, because businesses are firing them. Assist those who have been fired for their beliefs.
2ndvote.com allows you to find conservative and neutral businesses that share your values.
You can even sort by category (restaurants, groceries, hardware, retail) or values (pro-life, 2nd amendment).
Do you like the local or national conservative talk show hosts? Buy the stuff they’re hawking, and especially use the reference or discount codes they provide. This will tell sponsors that this sponsorship is financially important to them. And that helps keep these shows on the air.
Clean your room. Sort yourself out. You can’t fix the world, but you can improve your own life and situation. Read Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University books. Get out of debt. Save up an emergency fund. If Biden’s cronies crash the economy, you’re in a much better situation. And you’re in a Christian group that can be the start of your tribe, or you can arrange classes at your church or with your networking groups to bring everyone closer together.
Encourage Sanctuary Cities/Sanctuary States on any issue you support. Second Amendment sanctuaries already exist. Pro-life Sanctuaries are far fewer but could spread. Support the groups that got these policies passed, and encourage such movements in your area. You may not be able to change federal tax and immigration policy, but you can try to preserve free speech if someone can implement a First Amendment Sanctuary law at a state level.
Use the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) college rankings on free speech to determine the least liberal schools in your area to send your kids to. Homeschool if you can.
Victor David Hanson alleges Americans are now terrified or fear ....the once indomitable CIA after 2015 [now] emulating the KGB, and
the federal prosecutor [becoming] a vindictive Inspector Javert.”....The emotions that are most dominant in patriotic Americans are total and complete disgust and revulsion for the leaders in these organizations, along with the outrage that these traitorous people in such organizations have not yet being arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, and publicly hanged for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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What I read and synthesize takes me to the end point, too. It is not hard to figure out the enemy. The real question seems to be do we have the intestional fortitude to make a run for freedom from those people or take them all down?
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