‘Wokeness’ is why Democrats will lose Congress in November
The woke brigade has overplayed its hand by insulting many of those whose support they depend on
Biden's progressive handlers have been calling the shots on policy and who gets hired and nominated. They do so at the behest of woke liberals who demand unquestioning obedience to policies on social justice, racial inequality, police reform, the environment, and government spending on entitlements. These policies are not supported by the majority of Americans.
Wokeness was not coined to mock those who abhor racial injustice. It was coined to describe a political ideology that seeks to change our country in ways that many Americans neither understand nor support. Most Americans are aware that racism is pervasive, and part of the American social fabric. What most Americans don’t accept is that all social issues must be viewed through the prism of critical race theory.
It is self-evident to say that politicians who advocate woke policies are woke politicians. Saying so does not weaponize the characterization nor mock those that acknowledge racial disparities. It accurately describes it.
Woke is an old term, first appearing in the 1940s to mean being awake and not asleep to social injustice. But it is now a pejorative term, meaning to follow a narrow, intolerant, and moralizing ideology that uses cancel culture and identity politics to shut down opposition.
Centrist Democrats use ‘wokeness’ against the more left-leaning members of their party, accusing the left of using cancel culture to damage the employment prospects of those who are not considered sufficiently woke. They are right to do so.
To its critics, ‘wokeness’ is an insincere form of performative activism that uses virtue signaling to show how morally and virtuous someone, party or company is. It is easy, facile and ultimately meaningless. Texans would say it is all hat and no cattle.
‘Wokeness’ is why Democrats will lose Congress in November. It's reflected in the ill-suited and incompetent people Biden hires and reflected in the growth and job-killing policies he pushes.
My takeaway is that many people are tired of being lectured by political activists and politicians who use identity politics against those who criticize government fondness for social engineering. But
The woke brigade has overplayed its hand by insulting many of those whose support they depend on. If you’re going to blame people for historic wrongs, make sure they are responsible for what you say they did. White or Black, we cannot change our genes or ancestry.
This is why the Democrats will lose in November.