Musk declares war on the woke mind virus
No society can thrive, let alone survive, if governments replace free market economies with social [equity] justice wealth redistribution models.
“The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters”—Elon Musk
Woke is an old term that means being awake to social injustice, but it is now used pejoratively, as in to follow a narrow, intolerant, and moralizing ideology that uses cancel culture and identity politics, among other means, to shut down opposing views. Woke liberals demand unquestioning adherence to ideas of social justice, racial inequality, police reform, the environment, and government spending. While many Americans agree with reform in principle, they do not agree with the progressives’ policy directions.
The progressives want to change America by opening borders, defunding police, emptying jails, increasing debt, suppressing speech, and revising history – not by making America better but by destroying the founding principles that made her exceptional.
Critical Social Justice projects such as ESG (Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance), DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and CRT (Critical Race Theory) are potent variants of the virus, infecting the institutions that define and drive our economic system. The climate change and race hustlers are force multipliers that simultaneously enrich themselves and virtue-signal their woke bonafides.
Critical Social Justice is the fusion of Critical Theory (neo-Marxism) and Post modernism (post-Marxism) schools of thought with the goal of achieving its ideas about “Social Justice” through radical identity politics.
Our dumbed-down educational system has inspired our youth to embrace woke ideologies and socialism. Many parrot the Left’s rhetoric, which is tearing the fabric of our country apart. The mid-term election of woke progressives like Fetterman (PA) and Warnock (GA) to the Senate shows how the woke mind can succumb to the lure of big government socialism. Politicians give away money based on what makes sense politically, not on what makes sense economically.
The presidency, the Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in woke progressive mode. Our First Amendment is now under attack and the state has become the gatekeeper to free speech, not its guardian. The state and the Democratic Party collude with like-minded Big Tech elites (social media) and left-wing media. Collectively, they control the flow of information to advance their progressive agenda. They do so through censorship and biased reporting that suppresses and slanders opposing voices.
Any government that focuses solely on wealth redistribution—for social and racial equity justice—does not produce a dime’s worth of growth. We all suffer because the economy grows below potential, and living standards decline. Borrowing money to fund ever-growing social spending is a recipe for long-term economic pain and eventually higher unemployment and poverty.
No society can thrive, let alone survive, if governments replace free market economies with social [equity] justice wealth redistribution models. Woke progressives focus solely on policies of redistribution because they see inequalities, not opportunities. A free enterprise market is the best system for prosperity.
Unlike conservatives, progressives and government technocrats want to choose winners and losers. Industrial policies typically subsidize unproductive firms—the losers. Imagine a race in which everyone gets a medal. Athletes with skill, speed and endurance will probably stay home, thus denying the spectators the pleasure of seeing them run.
At their best, free markets are blind, rewarding those who innovate or take risks, irrespective of race, color, gender, or religion. A market-based economy wants people to make their own decisions because sellers want to know if their goods and services are what their customers want. A woke progressive government policy replaces merit with mediocrity.
Welcome to the New America—the United States of Progressive Dystopia: open borders, massive increases in government, reckless spending, crushing debt, a demonized, defunded, and demoralized police, coddled criminals, canceled cultures, identity politics, censorship, and socialism.
Elon Musk has figured out that the woke mind virus must be defeated – a virus that may well prove to be more virulent and dangerous than the coronavirus we now manage to live with. Beyond common sense and sound reasoning, there is no antiseptic, antibiotic, or antiserum to marshal against it. It cannot be reasoned with or contradicted. It must be, as Musk says, defeated.