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Woke Got What It Wanted—and Then What?
American Greatness ^ | December 8, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/09/2021 7:34:21 AM PST by Heartlander

Of the collapse of the woke appeal, perhaps we could say, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of zealots.”

The woke movement was giddy after January 20, 2021. The Left controlled both houses of Congress.

Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer of 1980s Democratic normality to ram through an otherwise hard Left agenda.

All the major cultural, financial, economic, entertainment, and media institutions had played various roles in seeing Donald Trump not just defeated, but also impeached twice. He was written off as persona non grata after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

So, academia, the corporate boardroom, Hollywood, the media, the Pentagon, professional sports, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street in near hysterical fashion all boarded the woke train.

All now boasted of ferreting out “white rage,” and hiring legions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” czars.

Critical race theory would be mainstreamed to excise racism and discrimination by embracing racism and discrimination.

“Crime” was to be seen now mostly as a construct created by the elite to protect their own privilege, prerogatives, and property. Shoplifting, looting, and street thuggery were just part of living in a normal city.

Social justice warriors could replace defunded police. Gone would be most bail, incarceration, mandatory jail time, stop-and-frisk, and broken-windows deterrent policies.

Green agendas would fundamentally transform America to put an immediate stop to man-made “climate change.” So, lots of oil and gas leases were either canceled or their fees vastly increased.

Pipelines were stopped. Gas and oil companies were warned that everything from lack of financing to new regulations would put them soon out of business. The golden age of wind and batteries was already upon us.

Modern monetary theorists assured us that printing money “spread the wealth”— devaluing the cash of undeserving capitalists who had too much and...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson; woketopia

1 posted on 12/09/2021 7:34:21 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

Even that old fag Keynes would have been against the US’s ongoing fiscal policy. He would only have us run deficits during economic downturns. Instead we run deficits on a continuous basis.


2 posted on 12/09/2021 7:39:32 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Heartlander

The French Jacobians got what they wanted too. So what?


3 posted on 12/09/2021 7:43:56 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Heartlander

They still didn’t get mine and won’t until I’m on my way to the Spirit in the sky.


4 posted on 12/09/2021 7:48:42 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Heartlander

Wokeness (no movement can prosper if even its very brand is bad grammar), aunty Fa and burnlootmurder are like an internet date. Turns out there was rather more to know beyond the smiling face pic and the paragraph bio.


5 posted on 12/09/2021 7:54:53 AM PST by lurk ( )
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To: Heartlander

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6 posted on 12/09/2021 7:58:01 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: HighSierra5

That’s where I’m gonna go when I die...


7 posted on 12/09/2021 7:58:50 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: sauropod

Gonna go to the place that’s the best


8 posted on 12/09/2021 8:10:13 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Heartlander

Utopia...


9 posted on 12/09/2021 8:11:30 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Loved that song growing up.


10 posted on 12/09/2021 8:24:13 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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