Posted on 08/09/2022 4:43:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Eight years of Obama and eighteen months of Biden have turned the U.S. Military into the equivalent of a college campus—and that’s a dangerous thing.
College campuses have become remarkably dystopian in the past 20 years. Once they sought to end racism; now they aggressively pursue anti-White racism. Once they sought to bring women into parity with men; now they seek to replace women with men. Once they cherished their niche as places of unique intellectual freedom; now they demand complete intellectual conformity. And once, believe it or not, they used to teach that America was a shining light among nations, while now they routinely denigrate America, deriding its institutions and inherent value. That's bad. What's worse is that the Obama and Biden administrations have inculcated college values into America's military.
Thomas Spoehr, a retired lieutenant general who served 36 years in the United States Army, is now the director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation. In that capacity, he gave a speech at Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C. campus about the rise of the leftist "woke" mentality in the American military. Hillsdale has published an adaptation of Spoehr's talk in Imprimis. I found the speech fascinating and wanted to share it with you because it is such a lucid analysis of the way hard-left concepts about race, sex, intellectual freedom, and America itself have been hardwired into the military since 2008.
Spoehr opens his speech with two basic premises: (1) wokeness is now interwoven in the military and cannot easily be removed, even if a conservative administration makes the effort, and (2) "woke ideology undermines military readiness in various ways." That second point should worry everyone who believes that our nation can best avoid conflicts if predatory nations view America
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The private sector is looking at it from a different angle; they are protecting themselves against lawsuits in case an employee does or says something stupid to a co-worker in a protected class, and they are selling product to as many people/groups as possible.
The Republicans did the same thing; there is no real resistance to “gay marriage”, for example - or even abortion. Too many people on both sides of the aisle believe abortion is the solution to our unassimilated underclass, and many believe “playing married” is the only way to stop perverts from seeking out strangers in rest stops and parks.
Definitely NOT the military I was in back in 1966-1969.
Each year we had an assembly, and were read the Riot Act on queers. We then signed papers to show we had the talk, until next year.
In 2019, New Orleans actually issued special police badges for Pride Month.
Imagine being a normal, Christian cop, having to wear one of these.
That is one of the reasons why the Republican Party needs to stop kissing up to big corporations.
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