Posted on 09/25/2023 4:14:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Woke continues because its privileged creators believe “What I create for others, certainly will not apply to me.”
America has been in a veritable cultural revolution since the 1960s. Nearly all our major institutions finally became woke—the administrative state, traditional and social media, universities, K-12, the corporate boardroom, entertainment, professional sports, and the foundations.
So the Obama and the Biden administrations finally seemed to have achieved their aims, in what the Obamas once boasted would be the “fundamental transformation” of America into something unrecognizable by its Founders. But what they gave us was nihilism—the destruction of norms, laws, and customs. There is no border, no criminal justice system, no real president any more.
The citizen is a serf, the illegal alien the veritable citizen. The former needs a passport to reenter the country, the latter is waved on through. There is a slob in gym shorts and a hoodie establishing dress codes for the Senate, teen murderers bragging that they won’t spend a day in jail, and a would-be state legislator filming herself doing sexual gymnastics while begging for cash only to be upset over the invasion of her “privacy.” So the Left got what it wanted and gave us our new America.
The curious result, however, is that even the elite Left is now forced to live among, and cannot always escape, the ruination it created—and for the first time is becoming slightly unhappy with what it birthed.
Critical legal theory has now trickled down into most of our large cities. It insists that criminals are not criminals at all, but rather victims of prior racial and class oppressions. Thus their victims should blame society for their injuries, not their predatory victimizers. Critical legal theory is a sort of Marxist redistribution schema—the middle class almost deserves its equal share...
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“”There is a slob in gym shorts and a hoodie establishing dress codes for the Senate””
Love it....VDH always says the right thing - speaks for majority of us....HERE at FR at least!
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Great insight, Dave! This is indeed, a key virtue of American society, the freedom/flexibility to MOVE to live in a place of our choice. In Europe, the countries are so small comparatively -- the language barriers too deep -- so it's not so easy to break the bond of a particular town/city or employer.
This physical mobility is great for escaping the high tax states of CA, NY, IL, PA, MA etc. But escaping federal mismanagement is much harder -- unless you've got a weapon like President Trump working for you!
That is a stupid stupid comment.
Do you WANT a visit from the FBI? I know JimRob does not enjoy them.
Don’t post idiocy on this platform
“This physical mobility is great for escaping the high tax states of CA, NY, IL, PA.”
My wife reminded me of our relatives and good friends starting to leave the high tax/crime states starting about 10 years ago. We decided not to move to southern Oregon during that time period.
Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana and Iowa have been the prime move to states for these people.
But election fraud will never be fixed peacefully.
“No one is less amenable to reason that someone whose life work is exacting revenge for imaginary crimes, especially when that work turns out to be as highly lucrative as it is emotionally satisfying. Common to communism, socialism, Critical Theory, and collectivism in general ...”
Very well said.
In the middle of the last century, I recall grade school teachers saying how government jobs like theirs 'paid less but were more secure'. Over the decades that has somehow changed to 'pay better and are more secure'. The extra cash and free time that government jobs bring now attracts unprincipled miscreants who leverage those benefits for power - power over the larger populace that funds their positions.
Complaints to their unworthiness are met not with "well, yes, I guess we government workers are getting a bit too large a share of our common wealth", but with "we are government workers, your betters, so don't complain. We might have a mind to punish you".
And if they have the authority, punish they will, just as the Roman magistrates would unbundle their fasces of sticks & axe to mete out beatings or beheadings as they deemed appropriate.
They are quite happy with the lucre they receive, and are willing to take advantage of others to keep it. They rationalize that their advantages are earned, while imagining that others who complain to them are unworthy deplorables. They "bare their teeth", as you said, at those who question them. They are the "successful" thieves who convince themselves that because they are more highly rewarded than their neighbors, it follows that they are more deserving, and better than, their neighbors.
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