Wakeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the Coalition of the Oppressed.
Those who are allegedly victimized by traditional America are “victimized” because of past and present American sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged crimes of America. You will find cross-cutting solidarity.
The so-called white male heterosexual victim class became collectively responsible for the sinful trinity of white anger, superiority, and privilege.
Class considerations are no longer required. The Duchess of Sussex and billionaires Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James shared their grievances against all white people, whether from Martha’s Vineyard or poor East Palestine, Ohio.
The elites of both coasts will draft an agenda that wakes them up, and the oppressed will follow orders.
That top-down blueprint would include billions of dollars in reparations for Black people.
In unison, all victims will rally behind a Green New Deal that mandates high energy costs to curb fossil fuel consumption.
The new transgender norm mandates three genders. Gender is socially determined, not biologically determined. And with a large, oppressed, transgender population, this is America’s next big civil rights struggle.
Historical awakeners have submitted a list of complaints about America’s arguably flawed past. Statues had to be knocked down to prosecute the dead. I had to change the name. History was to be rewritten. Even the founding date of the United States was reconsidered and changed.
But Wake’s rainbow fabric is now fraying for a variety of reasons.
First, Wakes is on track after the perfect storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, the devastating lockdown, the violent riots and looting that lasted 120 days after George Floyd’s death, and years of endemic Trump Derangement Syndrome. began to ride Most of those catalysts are declining. Americans who lost their freedom temporarily are slowly getting back on their feet. Millions of comatose people are waking up to normalcy, unaware of their country.
Second, the Awakened One is retrograde, reactionary, and counter-civilized. Decriminalizing the code, defunding the police, failing to apply norms to the homeless population, and breaking meritocracy are all hollowing out major cities.
20, 40, or 80 years ago San Francisco was a much cleaner, safer, and friendlier city than it is today.
The FBI, the Pentagon, or the aviation industry wakes up and becomes a matter of life and death.
Third, class has become a far more accurate measure of oppression than race or gender in modern America.
It’s one thing to limit fossil fuel exploitation if you’re in the top 1% of income brackets, and one thing if you commute 50 miles a day in a used car. If there is reparations, why not include Eric Holder and Al Sharpton but not poor Hispanics and Asians and poor whites?
Billionaire, preparatory and Ivy League-educated former President Barack Obama may blame an unawakened Senator Tim Scott (RS.C.) for lack of victim awareness. But will Obama do so from one of the three enclaves: the Kalorama mansion, the Martha’s Vineyard mansion, or Hawaii’s off-limits beach retreat?
Fourth, religion takes precedence over race. Hispanic American Catholics and Middle Eastern American Muslims outnumber the awakened elite of atheists and agnostics pushing the lie that the anti-religious organization Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is merely a charity. also have many things in common with so-called white Christians. .
The Muslim-American community in Michigan does not want their children to see drag shows or pride flags that carry the same status as the American flag. The Catholic-Hispanic community in Los Angeles has little tolerance for eerie anti-Christian motifs that herald a Los Angeles Dodgers game.
Fifth, Awakeningism is cannibalistic. Even awakened architect kids with perfect SAT scores and 4.0 grade point averages are being rejected by coveted Ivy League schools on the grounds of race.
Neither the Beverly Hills mansion nor the Presidio Heights mansion qualify as a violent criminal sanctuary, and the Anointed are now exempt from criminal liability for violent criminals.
The most sleepy Hollywood celebrities will eventually lose movie roles and be disqualified from film awards because of their race.
Even the most left-wing filmmakers don’t want to be ordered by Soviet-style commissioners to hire staff, actors and writers on the basis of race.
Sixth, Awakeningism is a dangerous diversion of American resources.
The US may have sponsored gender studies programs, hoisted pride flags and boasted a mural of George Floyd in Kabul. But it also suffered its most humiliating defeat in half a century, fleeing Afghanistan, leaving terrorists with billions of dollars in deadly weapons.
Our elite work to ban abundant natural gas, subsidize transgender activism abroad, and lecture about sexual identity within the military. China’s elite are building dozens of coal and nuclear power plants and doubling the size of their navy as they prepare to absorb Taiwan.
Americans are rejecting Awakening because they are finally beginning to realize that without Awakening, civilization will not survive.
Victor Davis Hanson Distinguished Fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of Basic Books’ The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. You can get in touch by sending an email to authorvdh@gmail.com.
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