The United States is obsessed with whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender women.
Crime has reached unprecedented levels in 40 years. However, some find it racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions and imprisonment deter crime.
Major US downtowns have turned from mostly safe and clean to scary and toxic almost overnight – and we boast that we at least “tolerate” medieval conditions.
The Pentagon and the CIA have released recruitment videos that sound like programs on preschool diversity, equality and inclusion.
However, the military is less willing to explain why the United States faced complete humiliation in Afghanistan or why the military only met about 50% of its planned recruitment targets.
Few will dare to attribute declining morale, inept strategic thinking, and anemic recruitment to stereotypes and targeting white middle-class men, to Soviet-style workshops, and conditioning the mind of diversity, equality, and inclusion.
The Biden administration was at war with the US oil and gas industry in the first 18 months. Radical cuts in fossil fuels will purportedly “transform” the world into a greener future.
President Joe Biden has expressed little concern about the resulting economic damage to the middle class or the lack of commensurate efforts in India and China to reduce emissions.
During COVID-19, American popular culture collectively demonized all those who indulgently disguised themselves and distanced themselves socially as “super spreaders.”
Federal workers and military personnel who skipped the new COVID-19 mRNA vaccination due to the shots not being fully validated were stereotyped as red state conspirator superbowers. They were accused of endangering all Americans with their allegedly selfish behavior.
However, there has been no such judgmental criticism of individual handling during the current monkey pox epidemic.
Given the high-profile, wake-up media, few would dare to suggest that social distancing or avoiding areas where promiscuous sex often occurs could slow down a dangerous epidemic – 95% of cases so far have been sexually transmitted. Ninety-eight percent of those infected were gay or bisexual men, 41% had HIV, and the median age was 38 years.
The daily themes of the tabloids are the annulment of culture, the signaling of virtue, and the sue of race and gender.
Recently, movement awakened may have recently jumped on the proverbial shark when a family filed a $ 25 million lawsuit against Sesame Place in Philadelphia. One of the theme park costume actors guilty apparently ignored the young African-American girl in the crowd, reaching for a hug.
The American middle class finds out how much poorer it is after losing $ 3 trillion in retirement accounts.
For some reason, their stocks plummeted despite Wall Street’s prior high-profile commitment to politically correct environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. This new awakening idea puts ecological, racial, and gender issues ahead of profit-and-loss calculations – at least for the declining middle class.
ESG may be an acceptable luxury in a bull market, but a bearish market can ruin millions of lives.
The new “anti-inflation” fiscal bill increases federal spending in times of inflation, while increasing taxes and regulations during recessions.
Interest rates must rise much higher to slow down rising prices. But the higher they go, the harder it becomes to handle a gigantic $ 30 trillion – and grow – public debt,
Our enemies abroad, especially China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, are absolutely delighted to watch the awakened comic madness.
They are delighted that the United States is diverting trillions of dollars and man-hours from production to ideological witch hunts, has awakened cannibalism, green signaling of virtue, profligate consumption, racial and gender fixations, skewed science, suicide surveillance and police station indoctrination.
Woke means Americans have less money, work and time to improve their military readiness. They will produce less competitive energy, but more pseudoscience, non-meritocratic progress, and unwise investments – all of these are the reasons why America will no longer dominate the world.
Most analysts overseas do not believe that waking translates into more accurate missiles, more lethal infantry, more efficient industrial production, better medicine, cheaper, more energy, a more united, cohesive population – and a higher standard of living.
So our unawakening adversaries certainly want us to stay awake.
Why not? Russia already has better supersonic missiles and more nuclear warheads.
China could possibly sink any US $ 12 billion aircraft carrier and its 5,000 different crew members that dare venture into the Taiwan Strait.
Beijing already produces 90% of the “global supply of raw materials needed to make generic antibiotics” and almost the same high percentage of our key vitamins and painkillers.
India and Brazil do not want more US lectures on the need for better choices and race relations.
While we are at war with our past, our foreign competitors are preparing for the future.
More likely to erect than tear down statues. We spend what we borrow; they invest what they earn.
How strange America used to teach the world what works – now only to mock its own lessons.
• Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished member of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classic and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fight and Won from Basic Books. You can contact him by sending an email to authorvdh@gmail.com.
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