Posted on 07/01/2026 5:38:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of “cultural appropriation.” Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized “fatphobia,” even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably aimed at white supremacy. Meanwhile, a slew of studies and papers and articles argued that punctuality, excellence, and other forms of professionalism are “the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness.”
Today, as universities are dismantling their DEI bureaucracies, corporations are scaling back antiracism training, and academic trigger warnings and diversity pledges have become punch lines rather than cudgels, it is tempting to believe that the excesses of the woke movement have not just peaked but are a thing of the past, a passing fever dream of a peculiar era.
Such thinking, however, underestimates the power and persistence of “wokeness,” which was never a spontaneous outburst of moral righteousness born of COVID lockdowns and rage over George Floyd’s death, but a philosophy and a worldview that were decades in the making.
The success of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America in recent congressional primaries in New York and mayoral races in Los Angeles and the District of Columbia underscores the enduring appeal of a leftist moral framework that casts American society as a Machiavellian struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed.
Although the DSA’s ascendancy in Democratic Party politics is a relatively new phenomenon, RCI’s analysis of high-profile issues that have defined the movement in recent years – from slavery reparations and polyamory to transgender advocacy and anti-colonialism – reveals that this dogma is still percolating through the culture, with some new outbreak almost every week. These deeper currents indicate that the DSA is not a driver but a reflection
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"the history of communism is required in Florida public schools. The State Board of Education approved new standards that mandate instruction on the dangers and consequences of communism, starting in the 2026-2027 school year."
Well, I’m not going down without a fight. We owe it to our ancestors and kids.
It doesn’t take a majority to change nations
How old are you?
It doesn’t take a majority to change nations
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I think you need a solid number of people to change a nation of 350 million people.
Mental illness has always been a part of human existence. It probably always will be.
The entire school curriculum in regards to what was known as “social studies” (civics, social problems, and much of history) has been erased from most government schools. The three branches of government are NOT “Democrat, Republican and Independent”, a belief common among many young people today. They have no clue because none was laid out for them.
And now we reap the whirlwind.
Colorado? NY? Minneapolis? Cali? The exact places youd expect it to gain some traction? illegal immigrant strongholds propped up by guilty white liberals? When they figure out how to extract the money from the billionaires let me know. Until then they can dream big… it will just hurt that much more when they are crushed.
The Communists of a century ago were different than the ones today. Back then the movement, albeit misguided, was virile; it was backed by soldiers, farmers, factory workers, male politicians -- almost all of them white European.
The Communists today are basically comprised of gays, women, underclass minorities, and aging Boomer hippies. These are the modern-day "proletariats." These people are inherently incompetent. Anyone who would support them is poor, uneducated, or mentally ill.
Most revolutions are started by a cadre of the dedicated
The American civil war even till the tipping point of 1860 election
The American revolution it’s hard to say
Pretty small continental army
The buildup was definitely the zealots
The real push in the south which had more tories was after Tarletons massacre of prisoners at Waxhaws
That turned the tide in our favor in the south as back country Scots Irish and English frontiersmen streamed in to fight the Brits from as far away as tennessee and Kentucky etc
Most revolutions and civil conflicts at minimum start small
French and Spanish conflicts same
Just my observations
These elite spoiled kids winning as socialists are managed by professional communists who hope to sow destruction and chaos they can replace and lord over this utopia as elites cause they hate the west and Christendom
It’s not new really is it and they aren’t that plentiful
The fact over half of American women are unmarried is their soil on which to plant
Part of “woke” is to make everyone believe it is bigger than it actually is. I don’t believe it’s bigger than 15% of the population - but is just concentrated in certain places and demographics, e.g. young women in urban areas.
It certainly isn’t for young men, increasingly rejecting it. The majority of adults aren’t “woke” either.
Throw in a good dose of voter fraud and you have the illusion that “woke” is everywhere to most people. It isn’t.
And it is being run by foreigners who hate the USA. No loyalty, no commonality, no civic pride. Look how many they already have. They will have no problem turning the guns on native born Americans.
I strongly disagree. Everywhere I look, DEI is coming apart, woke is suffering. Disney will be the last to go, but it will go, as even Disney will run out of money.
I agree, WOKE DEI is in a death spiral. Unfortunately the older evil, communism’s raising it’s ugly head...
I agree that DEI is falling apart, but it is not dead. I hope you are right that the total collapse in inevitable, but it could still do damage.
It just sits there festering. Because of so-called tolerance. Tolerance is weakness. Do not tolerate evil. Ever.
Nope.
The American Revolution and the Civil War were both secession movements as opposed to cultural revolutions like in France or Russia.
George III would have envied Lincoln’s success at defeating “the traitorous rebellion”. George’s August 23rd 1775 Proclamation is remarkably similar to Lincoln’s April 15th 1861 Proclamation:
“By the King, A Proclamation, For Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition” (1775):
Abraham Lincoln, Monday, April 15, 1861 (Proclamation on State Militia):
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