The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females.
Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But some consider it racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime.
Major U.S. downtowns almost overnight went from mostly safe and clean to terrifying and toxic — and we brag that we are at least “tolerant” of the medieval conditions.
The Pentagon and CIA put out recruitment videos that sound like kindergarten diversity, equity, and inclusion programming.
Yet the military is less eager to explain why the United States met utter humiliation in Afghanistan or why the army only has met about 50 percent of its scheduled recruitment targets.
Few dare to attribute declining morale, inept strategic thinking, and anemic recruitment to the stereotyping and targeting of middle-class white males, Soviet-style workshops, and diversity, equity, and inclusion mind conditioning.
The Biden administration in its first 18 months warred on the U.S. oil and gas industry. Radical cutbacks in fossil fuels supposedly would “transition” the world to a greener future.
Biden expressed little worry about the resulting economic damage to the middle class or the lack of commensurate efforts in India and China to curb emissions.
During COVID, American popular culture has collectively demonized any who were lax on masking and social distancing as “super-spreaders.”
Federal employees and military personnel who skipped the new mRNA COVID-19 inoculations on grounds the shots were not fully vetted, were stereotyped as red-state conspiracist super-spreaders. They were accused of endangering all Americans by their supposedly selfish behavior.
Yet there has been no such judgmental criticism of individual conduct during the current monkeypox outbreak.
Given the loud woke media, few would dare suggest that social distancing, or avoiding areas where promiscuous sex is frequent might slow down the dangerous epidemic — 95 percent of whose cases so far have been sexually transmitted. Ninety-eight percent of infected people were gay or bisexual men, 41 percent had HIV and the median age was 38.
The daily stuff of tabloids is cancel-culturing, virtue signaling, and suing over race and gender.
Recently, the woke movement may have jumped the proverbial shark when a family filed a $25 million lawsuit against Sesame Place in Philadelphia. One of the guilty theme park’s costume character actors apparently ignored a young African-American girl in the crowd who was reaching out for a hug.
The American middle class is learning just how much poorer they are after suffering a collective $3 trillion stock loss in retirement accounts.
For some reason, their stocks plummeted despite Wall Street’s past loud commitment to politically correct Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment. That new woke idea puts green, racial, and gender issues ahead of profit and loss investment calculations — at least for the declining middle class.
ESG may be a permissible luxury in a bull market, but it can help to ruin millions of lives in a bear one.
The new “anti-inflation” budget bill manages to increase federal spending in times of inflation, while upping taxes and regulation during a recession.
Interest rates must climb far higher to slow down spiking prices. But the higher they go, the harder it is to service the gargantuan $30 trillion — and climbing — national debt.
Our enemies abroad, particularly China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, are watching all this woke, comic madness with absolute glee.
They are delighted the United States is diverting trillions of dollars and man hours away from production to ideological witch hunts, woke cannibalism, green virtue-signaling, spendthrift consumption, racial and gender fixations, warped science, suicidal surveillance, and commissariat indoctrination.
Woke means that Americans have less money, labor, and time to hone their military readiness. They will produce less competitive energy, but more pseudo-science, non-meritocratic advancement, and unsound investment — all reasons why America will no longer dominate the world.
Most analysts abroad do not believe that being woke translates into more accurate missiles, more lethal infantrymen, more efficient industrial production, better medicine, cheaper, more plentiful energy, a more united, cohesive population — and a higher standard of living.
So, our unwoke adversaries certainly want us to stay woke.
And why not? Russia already has better hypersonic missiles and more nuclear warheads.
China can likely sink any $12 billion American aircraft carrier and its 5,000 diverse “they/them” crew that dares to venture into the Taiwan strait.
Beijing already produces 90 percent of “the global supply of inputs needed to make the generic antibiotics,” and nearly as large a percentage of our key vitamins and painkillers.
India and Brazil do not want any more pot-to-kettle U.S. lectures on their need for better elections and racial relations.
While we war on our past, our competitors abroad prep for the future.
They are more likely to erect than tear down statues. We spend what we borrow; they invest what they earn.
How odd America once taught the world what works — only now to mock its own lessons.
The answer will be what we all know is right, and that’s a three day week. Less energy less spending less inflation less stress. Spread the workload to more people and we will have equality.
Say yes to kneepads,
now you’re writing what you really believe in mock flippance. Do you have a lot of time on your hands now that you’ve been fired from CNN or something? Don’t worry. You’ll have Dõn Límon to keep you company soon. You can sniff each other’s fingers to pass the time waiting for your unemployment checks and fan emails that never come.
Double-plus good.
You’re kidding right? Where do you expect to find these individuals the ones who WANT to work?? All these morons got “retirement”, without working AND saving the 50 years the rest of us did to get there. Now that they’ve enjoyed getting money without working there us no way they’ll ever want to go back to it. Good luck in YOUR utopian world it’s never going to work.
We have to finally understand the democracy is plague, it destroys everything it touches. Look at Russia: 30 years of democracy and it is done as a great power. We have the same. Before 1960s, we limited the right to vote of a lot of people and we survived and prospered. But in the 1960s, we introduced full voting rights, and now we are falling off a cliff pretty much like Russia.
We have to finally understand the democracy is a plague, it destroys everything it touches. Look at Russia: 30 years of democracy and it is done as a great power. We have the same. Before 1960s, we limited the right to vote of a lot of people and we survived and prospered. But in the 1960s, we introduced full voting rights, and now we are falling off a cliff pretty much like Russia.
You do know America is a republic, right? Constitutional republic, representative republic, whatever you want to call it. Just don’t call it a democracy because it isn’t. I’ll bet even Hanson would say there’s never been a real democracy, not even in ancient Athens.
But you’re dead right about ignorant and indoctrinated voters. What a nightmare. We don’t need voter registration drives, we need voter education drives. I debate that with my fellow Church congregants all the time, lefties that they are. (Christian leftists. That still seems bizarre to me even after five years or so.)
My dear Jeff, it should not surprise you at all, not if you connect the dots of Christianity consistently, logically, with no contradictions.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, all of them, all supernatural, mystical, belief systems, all religions, when practiced logically and consistently lead to Leftism, to collectivism, to theocracy, to the sacrifice individual for a “greater” good.
Supernaturalism, faith, and mysticism logically lead to the tyranny of theocracy. Only reason and naturalism, reality-ism, realism, lead to individualism and capitalism.
Judaism prepared the ground for Christianity. And both Judaism and Christianity prepared the ground for Islam and Marxism.
It is not the Leftist Christian who is the odd-man-out, the oddball, the eccentric, interpreting Holy Scripture in his eccentric way. It’s the Right-Wing Christian, the Christian who believes that Christianity really endorses individualism, individual rights, private property rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and capitalism that is the oddball, the eccentric, the odd-man-out.
If only you would carefully and slowly read the two articles at the links below you might begin to understand that Christianity and religion lead to Leftism not Rights-ism.
“Religion versus America” – Leonard Peikoff
“Holy Scripture and the Welfare State” – Richard M. Salsman
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2011/04/28/holy-scripture-and-the-welfare-state/?sh=5be8a48424f2
Wow, you sure are an expert on comparative religions, or whatever the dark satanic mills call those courses nowadays. And by expert, I mean expert like the Alzheimer Joe administration’s economic and global climate warming change experts. Or the family experts who hold tranny strip shows for kiddies.
And Leonard Tossoff is still trying to get attention from under Rand’s skanky shadow, I see.
Jeff, what are your highest values and why are they your highest values? Are they life on earth, liberty on earth, and the personal pursuit of happiness on earth — the American way of life?
If Jesus appeared to you in a vision and he told you to forget about fighting for life on earth, liberty on earth, and the personal pursuit of happiness on earth, those things don’t really and ultimately matter, what really matters is saving your eternal soul for his Kingdom after you die, would you obey him and give up fighting for life on earth, liberty on earth, and the personal pursuit of happiness on earth and instead do everything possible to prepare yourself for the after-life?
Because that’s what serious Christianity is really about. It’s not about enjoying this life, or making the best of this life, or pursuing happiness in this life, or prolonging this life. It’s not about saving America. It’s not about defending America. It’s not about fighting for America. It’s not about you or your happiness on earth. Serious Christianity is about atoning for Original Sin and seeking salvation and redemption from this Fallen World through self-sacrifice and renunciation for God, Jesus, and neighbor.
Mother Teresa and Kayla Mueller are the serious Christians not John D. Rockefeller, George W. Bush, or Joel Osteen.
So Jeff, if Jesus appeared to you in a vision would you give everything up on earth to follow him to his Kingdom in the after-life or would you pursue your personal happiness on earth? Because that is the choice for serious Christianity and a serious Christian.
“It is not the Leftist Christian who is the odd-man-out, the oddball, the eccentric, interpreting Holy Scripture in his eccentric way. It’s the Right-Wing Christian, the Christian who believes that Christianity really endorses individualism, individual rights, private property rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and capitalism that is the oddball, the eccentric, the odd-man-out.”
Sorry, as always you never start with a true statement of what Christianity is. The old testament, as the foundation of the biblical Christianity, was clearly for private property rights. The attempt to seize someone else’s property was condemned even if a king attempted it. In the bible, the individual’s responsibility before God is always maintained against a false collective. The prophets of the old testament often had to stand aginst the people or the government when the leaders or the people fell into unrighteousness.. Jesus Christ did not revolt against the leaders of Israel but He constantly spoke the truth aginst them. He ultimately stood alone aginst the leaders of Israel, when they were in defiance of the God the claimed to be following. Finally, all men, individually must give an account before God as to their lives in relation to Him.
God, being the source of all life a blessing, and having created us for His own purposes, knows what will make us happy. He knows it better than we know ourselves. The fall of man into sin and willfulness against his Creator, has brought in much unhappiness, and misery, including disease and death. God is calling all to repentance and the reception of His blessing for time and eternity. He is graciously calling us back to Himself through Jesus Christ.
All attempts to make some collective utopia on earth in rejection of God has failed and will fail. The wisdom of the US constitution is the way it anticipated the tendency of all men to indulge in self interest (even if it is thought to be rational self interest) and political power over others. The checks and balances of the constitution, now being squandered, took account of the sinful nature in man that seeks control over others. It is not a utopian scheme but it has been somewhat successful, at least in the past.
The Randian’s rail against Christianity out of their commitment to atheistic materialism. The do so in ignorance of biblical Christianity. There is indeed a dark time coming, but it will come from unregenerate man seeking to impose a world government without reference to the living God. The idea of a coming Christian dark ages is ludicrous. The secularist/atheist worldview, as typified in evolutionism, is creating the moral and spiritual caos that will lead to the final events foretold in the bible. The rejection of God, and the fact that man is created in the image of God, is producing bad fruit. This moral decline will continue to accelerate toward its predicted end, unless there is a revival of biblical Christianity.
Jeff,
Your wry observation reminds me of a sage joke.
Q] “What’s the best argument against democracy?”
A] “A five minute conversation with your average voter.”
That’s a very good observation. 🙂
Nice photo of some typical young woketards. They look properly self righteous and militant in their factional hatred for ordinary Americans, like the uncritical thinkers they obviously are. The fists upraised in geek chic are an honest display of their oikophobia, although not a rational display.
I never used to think honesty could be contemptible but leave it to the woketards to break new ground in being obnoxious. They must be big fans of Alzheimer Joe, who’s quite possibly the least charismatic and most obnoxious human being who’s ever lived. He’s like a demented and mentally retarded version of Nero with a level of sexual deviancy equal to Caligula’s but without the grandeur. And instead of a horse in the Senate he has a Kamel as VP. (Tell me Heels Up Harris doesn’t look like that “Joe Camel” cartoon character that used to be used to hawk cigarettes to minors.)
I’m glad I don’t live next door to any of them, which means I’m glad I don’t live next to their parents, of course. Or their single moms or two moms, two dads, two trans or whatever alphabet soup their families spell out.
At least the national debt is only 30 trillion bucks. I thought it was 31 trillion. Whew! What a relief. Now I can sleep soundly tonight without worrying if I can eat breakfast in the morning. And we only have two years and three months left to go worrying whether Russia or China will nuke us. Life is good.
Great column. I think the many collapses it describes are not accidental but are, instead, the intended result of the “woke,” who are essentially socialists and communists. After all, their prophet Marx instructed them to “ruthlessly criticize all that exists” precisely in order to destroy the existing system.
I think a lot of the collapses are deliberate, too. The rest are just the result of overweening incompetence and drooling stupidity.
It hey they’re all set (apparently) to vote for Fetterman over OZ. You’re so right we need voter education! Half these twits have NO CLUE what or whom they’re voting for.
Yes!
Remember a year ago when the whole world was terrified of Russia?
“Oh my, if the USA gets into a war with Russia, America will be defeated!” Look at Russia now! It has always been Russia that was the “Paper Tiger”.
The same is MORE true of Communist China. Communist China is a slave-pen of terrorized serfs and nothing more than that. In a real war with the USA, Slave-Pen Communist China, would collapse like a house built from a deck of cards.
Yes, Russia, China, Iran, and the whole envious world would love nothing more than to see the USA collapse. In the same way that envious lepers dying of leprosy would experience perverse pleasure seeing a healthy person come down with leprosy.
If America does collapse with the leprosy destroying the rest of the world, the leprosy of unreason, irrationality, collectivism, statism, socialism, fascism, theocracy, tyranny, the rest of the leprous world will go down with it.
America is the world’s first, last, and only hope of a healthy recovery from the clutches of a New Dark Age of Unreason.
Sometimes you’re right, like when Bareback Hasbeen Osama said words matter. If America implodes, the world will go through a REAL Dark Age.
The one-thousand years of the Christian Dark Ages were a real Dark Age caused by the unreason of — Christianity.
And….your’e back to your irrational self.
Ayn Rand said, 50 years ago that if you want to know what is wrong in a society, look at what is taught at universities. A century of Marxist / progressive presence and the last half century of their dominance on campuses have accomplished what no foreign military invasion could – hollowing out the culture. The left leveraged McCarthy era victimhood into cultural and institutional dominance. Conservatives, as fatally compromised libertarians have not helped prevent the decline.
Even somebody ugly enough to stop a clock is right twice a day. Rand was right that “our” universities are the source of what’s wrong with American society. All the pernicious trends seem to originate in them.
Theories are not necessary. After less than 2 years of progressive woke government we are poorer, weaker and engaged in a proxy war in Europe that is getting more serious by the day. More Americans believe impossible “facts” than ever before in our history at the same time as we have more citizens who are supposedly highly educated. By their fruits shall you know them.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Marxism are all belief-systems of impossible “facts”.
Voting should include a civics test, pass then vote.
But then Democrats would never get elected!
I don’t get why VDH doesn’t get that “woke” is American Communism on a path of deliberate destruction of capitalism, economy, our military, society, family, heritage, education, energy/food supply and basic human rights. I’m not enlightened by the meanderings of VDH.
It ‘s the WEF Stupid!
Prof. Hansen is correct again. The left will do anything it can to remake the American mind. Converting the military mind is a necessary part of the woke blue print as is severe economic downturn, open borders, drug addiction, fostering homelessness, deliberate lowering of US esteem in the minds of allies, unreasonably low or no bail, inflation, increasing interest rates, higher fuel costs, mindless and speculative movement to electric vehicles, conjecturally developed wasteful plans to combat climate change, unreasonable increase the national debt, woke federal give-away programs (e.g. college tuition indebtedness forgiveness), election fraud, increased dependence upon foreign countries (especially our foes) for vital goods, wantonly inept acting chief executives, remolding of the justice department, weakening of our military—-what have I forgotten—-all designed for the sake of mediocrity to remake the U.S. into a socialistic society and, hopefully beget better relations with China and Russia (such uninformed thoughts I offer). Ah but don’t the staunch advocates of these policies hope to get rich for selling us out—-perhaps they expect to acquire oligarch status as a result.
“How odd America once taught the world what works — only now to mock its own lessons.”
This is basically all you had to say Vic – we get the rest.