Subject: The woke & The buck

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“The greatest guilt of modern industrialists is not the fumes of their factory smokestacks, but the pollution of this country’s intellectual life, which they have condoned, assisted and supported.”—Ayn Rand

A Rasmussen poll asked what should be the highest priority for business in the United States. 84% said business should focus on earning profits, providing good benefits and pay to employees and offering consumers high-quality products and services at the lowest priced. 3% said social justice causes.

Yes, there are rabid racists. They come in all shades and races. But they are few in relative number and condemned by all sane people in any political party. Yet too many of us have been cowered to face these racial bullies. Too many of us are unwilling to respond to real racism perpetrated by the liberal/democrat Party repudiating their bigotry in loud, bold language. Instead we slink to diversity awareness programs at work and school and pretend they are useful. We yield to the propaganda our children are fed in the liberal-monopoly government schools at the expense of the canons of Western civilization without standing up to demand better of our educators, reluctant to stand up for our children against the onslaught of illiberal education due to the tactics of revenge liberals will rain down upon them. Yes, people are made scared to talk about race in this country for fear of what's going to happen to them if they do.

If there’s segregation look who's behind it. It is your civil rights & liberal/democrat leaders. Don’t listen to their flowery rhetoric; look at their actions and the results. These leaders want segregated everything these days. Maybe they need to get out and start hanging out with the rest of us. Maybe they need to try actually living where Americans live and where Americans work, they’ll find that the obsession with race and racism in this country is found only on the left.

However, what in the hell is the grievance anymore? What are the grievances and misconceptions we supposed to talk about? That would satisfy the left? What are we supposed to understand? Are we supposed to blame others for the violent harms done by an individual, or a mob? How tough life is in general? How disadvantaged we all are? What are we supposed to understand, sob stories we all have about how difficult it is to get through the day? What are we supposed to talk about and what are we supposed to hide and what are we supposed to lie about, that liberals would approve of so that we're no longer called racists? They're the ones with unresolved issues of race. They're the ones who have problems with it, and so they accuse the rest of the country of putting them in positions of suffering, 'cause they can't reconcile the problems they have with their own choices and responsibilities.

Honest Americans resent calling this nation a bunch of racists. In fact we here are showing bravery on race. WE here are totally willing to discuss it openly and honestly, right here, right now! Let us tell you what we like about America and what we don't like, instead of obfuscating by hiding behind a bunch of policy proposals and your hateful demonization of us, Be honest and brave and judge someone by the "content of their character and not the color of their skin."

Americans of good faith, who live lives with love in our hearts, charity in our actions, and malice toward only those who seek to destroy us must stand up for ourselves and resist these baseless charges and worthless observations. It is obvious that our acts alone do not satisfy the race-warmongers among us, and it behooves us to conclude that they never will. We, Americans of goodwill, must push back and declare that the sentiments of liberals/democrat are invalid, untrue, and unacceptable.

Don’t confuse free market capitalism with corporate oligarchism or crony-capitalism. Such autocratic supporting corporations are occurring favor and colluding with the liberal/democrat party by using their financial muscle to create a one-party political machine. In addition to those efforts, corporate CEOs have become activists and propagandist for radical liberal/democrat causes— organizing petitions, letters, and other politically motivated, public efforts, and even basing corporate success and achievement in radical social activism, while oftentimes doing business with, silence about and complying with Communist genocidal regimes like China.

Woke institutions are run by an overwhelming liberal managerial class without who’s acquiescence the lie that is wokeism could never have taken hold. These are NPR listening people who have fallen under the impression that pious, unempirical virtual signaling attacking any difference in status is a form of moral enlightenment and political activism.

Wokeness remade American capitalism in its own image. The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.

Woke capitalists are actually not free market advocates but monopolists. They favor the strong state that can support/promote their product/service; or a superstate such that they need only work with one party and its rule making capabilities(1).

Woke corporations working in tandem with woke politicians hope to be spared higher taxes, increased regulations, and antitrust legislation aimed at monopolies. They promote open borders, cheap labor and breaking up traditional structures such as the family and other intervening institutions between the individual and the state. They want to control competition in their favor.

In sum, they threaten our most basic and fundamental liberties.

“None has so revolutionized ordinary expectations of human life, lengthened the lifespan, made the elimination of poverty and famine thinkable, enlarged the range of human choice as Capitalism.”--M. Novak

1. Thus, their interest in also breaking down the power of individual states and moving towards globalism.

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