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We Have Met the Enemy
Steyn Online ^ | 6 Apr, 2021 | Tal Bachman

Posted on 04/08/2021 5:32:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber

At the end of my last column for SteynOnline, I asked: "What can patriots do to retake their beloved nation?"

Space permits only a few quick thoughts today. I hope to add more in the future, but just for starters:

We could do worse than getting to know our enemy. Not just know them, but really get inside their heads to understand where they're coming from, and why.

This is what I see.

The strange figures known as Wokists currently destroying America aren't just reprises of earlier enemies. They represent something rather new. The political cult of Wokism combines the worst aspects of every political cult in history.

Whether they realize it or not, Wokists themselves combine the lunatic loyalty of the Manson family with the hollow pseudo-joy of Jonestown residents, the racism of National Socialists, the inhumanity of Mao Tse-Tung, the bratty tantrums of Veruca Salt, the nihilism of Bakunin-style anarchists, the totalitarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union, the child torture and sacrifice of the Mayans, the derangement of Heaven's Gate followers, the sadistic violence of the Jacobins, and the ruthless control-freakism of the current Chinese Communist Party.

Now add to that noxious syncretic blend the Wokist use of powerful communication technologies to shape narratives and meta-narratives, destroy opponents, and recruit new converts, and you've got yourself a thing.

Through it all, a counterfeit moral imperative with a deceptively appealing name ("social justice") drives the cult. That counterfeit imperative casts all existence as one great battle between Good (Wokism) and Evil (everything that is not Woke). It denies any constraints on efforts to win that battle. It entails an obsessive totalitarianism. It forbids critical self-examination of itself. Adherents of the cult are Knowers of the One True Truth. They are crusaders in righteous battle.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: deathofthewest; woke
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To: Mr. K

Did you read the original post?


21 posted on 04/08/2021 7:22:45 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Mr. K

#3 +1


22 posted on 04/08/2021 7:38:59 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: Mr. K

Absolutely


23 posted on 04/08/2021 7:40:46 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: Hieronymus

24 posted on 04/08/2021 7:44:14 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: MtnClimber

Stop paying attention to them. Ridicule their insanity. Like, really ridicule them.

And read their manuals. They are out there. None of this is secret.


25 posted on 04/08/2021 7:44:34 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Mr. K

Yes...although Tal Bachman (She’s so high above me) wrote this one!


26 posted on 04/08/2021 7:50:15 PM PDT by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: MtnClimber

The Social Justice Warriors are the useful idiots. The Globalists are the wannabe tyrants(pick your favorite).

The Globalists say to the SJWs, “Hey, we are woke, too. We are allies in the fight against the opposition. We can help you destroy them.”

Once the mission is accomplished and a one world tyrannical govt is installed, the SJWs finally realize that they are slaves to the New World Order and they will be disposed of too if they dissent.


27 posted on 04/08/2021 8:13:07 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: nascarnation

The definition of fascism. An alliance between business and govt.


28 posted on 04/08/2021 8:13:49 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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29 posted on 04/08/2021 8:50:48 PM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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To: MtnClimber
... Wokists currently destroying America aren't just reprises of earlier enemies. They represent something rather new

Super computers, and databases at the fingertips of unethical humans, are the difference, IMHO. In centuries past, most occupations developed trade associations over time, with ethical rules imposed on the members. Databases have grown so quickly in society that ethics have gotten short shrift. The information the data provides is a drug to people are in a position to control it and impose control on others by using it. Ethics be damned. Privacy? How quaint.

One Ring database to rule them all, One Ring database to find them, One Ring database to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them

30 posted on 04/08/2021 8:52:02 PM PDT by Tellurian (2/4/2004: DARPA Lifelog terminated, Facebook initiated)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


31 posted on 04/08/2021 9:03:08 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: MtnClimber

You go after then exactly like the Texas Rangers went after the Comanches.


32 posted on 04/08/2021 9:38:49 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: joma89

Amen to that!


33 posted on 04/08/2021 11:53:07 PM PDT by sport
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To: MtnClimber
said, "lunatic loyalty of the Manson family"
Wrong group.
Jim Jones was the reason for the big switch from the party of the Klan to the party of pity.

"I was constructed in a garage in Palo Alto'" - Hillary Clinton Feinstein, Pelosi, Jerry Brown, Jane Fonda, Harvey Milk and Jim Jones all hang in Palo Alto where Jim Jones lived. Hillary didn't say she hung out with Jim Jones but she implies it. Jimmy Carter had a number of meetings with Jim Jones.

Jim Jones was running a number of criminal actions USING Blacks in the elections around San Francisco. look up at Wikipedia which isn't bad in this case "Peoples Temple in San Francisco" Pelosi got her start from him. After Jonestown was formed you can hear video of official representatives from the USSR came there to make a speech.

Jim Jones was a hard core atheists that coined the term Sky god and was a hard core communist. His father was a Klansman. That makes sense why he had so many black at JonesTown and San Francisco. Part of his money raising racket was Social security fraud through the peoples Temple. He had communal living of blacks with them handing over they SS checks.

He would also call blacks "Negro" and he was one of the first to use the term "social justice" Jim Jones is the one that turned the democrat party from the party of the Klan to pandering to blacks.

Jim Jones was the son of James T. and Lynetta Putnam Jones. The father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.<<< That is why Jim Jones had demonrat support.
Wikipedia does a fair job with more details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple_in_San_Francisco
34 posted on 04/09/2021 1:55:40 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: imardmd1

The god of this world—Satan—is the master and model of “Wokeism,” IMHO.

I suggest your opinion is anything but an opinion. Literal fact would be more like the reality.

...but, I might be inclined to disagree with your comment on Biblical righteousness as the first priority. I don’t think the woke would in reality recognize righteousness anymore than the multitudes recognized the Bread of life in the sixth chapter of John.

They were literally and figuratively fed by the Son of God, and failed to recognize either him or the Father that sent him or the represented real righteousness of the sinless one. The wokeism of the time was the recognition by the Jewish government that said Jesus, was the enemy to their fiefdom and control over the people.

In the course of time, that recognition spread among the people allowing to take place what in reality, desperately needed to take place, the crucifixion of the only begotten Son of God by the very people he was sent to save. They crucified their King and Redeemer. No pun to your screen name intended.


35 posted on 04/09/2021 1:55:53 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: joshua c

The definition of fascism. An alliance between business and govt.

Aaah yes, the vaunted public/private partnership. The first step on the road to ruin or globalism, take your pick.


36 posted on 04/09/2021 2:02:46 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: MtnClimber

Eat the rich. :-)


37 posted on 04/09/2021 2:08:40 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Tellurian

I have always maintained “there is nothing new under the sun”.

Human nature is what it is, and there are those who choose righteously, and those who choose otherwise for whatever reasons. If you have what it takes to move mountains and influence people, there are but two paths to follow. One leads to salvation and eternal life, the other to destruction and death.

Choose wisely.


38 posted on 04/09/2021 2:10:25 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: wita
I added the IMHO to make a statement that I think is the truth a little more tolerable to readers that might want to simply otherwise find fault.

So why do you think that Biblical righteousness (as compared to self-righteousness which is a "woke" attitude) would not be the prime target of those who wish to cancel out the basis of traditional American laws and acceptable behavior?

I'm interested in your explanation and ranking system.

39 posted on 04/09/2021 4:24:10 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: flaglady47

“democrat party voters are the enemy, folks.”
“The MSM is the enemy.”
“Both are the enemy.”

Add as enemies of America:
pubic school teachers,
college professors,
lawyers,
HR directors.


40 posted on 04/09/2021 4:41:34 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...lyet.)
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