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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The woke seem to be everywhere. Is there some way to turn them against those who indoctrinated them?
Reading or listening to Mark Steyn increases your IQ a few points.
democrat party voters are the enemy, folks.
The MSM is the enemy.
We somehow got into this awful situation where Big Gov/Big Media/Big Biz/Big Labor and Big Tech are all singing from the same woke hymnal.
“democrat party voters are the enemy, folks.
The MSM is the enemy.”
Both are the enemy.
History shows they eventually eat their own, but sadly it will not be until the rest of us and our nation are consumed from within.
Did people really vote for “this”?
I think Mark is saying that he has met the enemy, and it is us.
So true
Right now, they only seem to be everywhere.
It is the Delphi Technique on a large scale.
They KNOW it works but only if you don’t know how.
Know and understand, if you won’t fight for freedom
now, all you will know is subjugation.
This is Tal Bachman.
Marking.
I knew the quote was from Pogo, but thought it older and less green.
Still, a good line.
The Commodore Perry quote is, of course, much older. The paraphrased Pogo version seemed appropriate. The environmental movement was arguably the genesis of American pop culture wokeness. I remember Matt Christiansen jumping in with both feet.
I don’t believe we as a majority votes for this any more.
Until last year I did not think fraud decided much besides an occasional local race.
Yes, for example, I had no idea that Veruca Salt was a political cult.
Their first candidate on the "Cancel" priority list is Biblical righteousness which is defended by exposure of evil in the Woke individual's objectives followed by surgical dismantling of them with prejudice.
The god of this world--Satan--is the master and model of "Wokeism," IMHO.
huh?
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