All scams depend on two human weaknesses — either greed or hate, and sometimes both. Following WWI, the suffering German people deeply resented a treaty that stripped their defeated nation of territory and economic resources. For Hitler, that resentment meant the German people were ripe for a scam. Adolph promised them retribution and instead gave them genocide. Closer to home, America’s angry black community deeply resented what it claimed was racist domination by the white community. For B. Obama and later J.Biden, that resentment meant that the African American community was ripe for a scam. Barak and Joe promised them the moon and instead gave them Marxism. In short order, the Democrat Party embraced Marxism and rebranded it as WOKE-ISM — an anti-America movement based on hate and greed. If you dismiss this conclusion, at least be honest enough to pay close attention to Marxist infiltration throughout all of America’s major institutions. In particular, examine the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) mandated policies of public schools, of universities, of large corporations, of media, of healthcare,  of the church, of the military, of federal, state and local governments. For instance, your alma mater’s medical school made news recently by adopting Critical Race Theory, making it  a mandatory study in social justice and anti-racism .*** This same university’s head BB coach led her national championship women’s team to showcase BLM tee shirts during games, as she used and still uses occasions to speak of “social injustice.” But get this: The only place you won’t find a millimeter of DEI is in college and professional sport. The one place you won’t find a socialist economic system is on college and professional playing fields and arenas. Only one attribute drives the sporting world — MERIT. In other words, coaches recruit the best players based on documented performance —  period. When head coach and BLM advocate Dawn Staley (at South Carolina) is on the recruiting trail, she leaves DEI in a dark closet. And occasionally she will sign a token white player to prove she’s not racist. Nobody buys DEI on professional circuits. Affirmative action has no place on the PGA tour. Equal pay has no place in the NFL. The LA Dodgers pay Mookie Betts $188,000 (before taxes)for every game he plays, or doesn’t play. NYY pays Aaron Judge $246,000 per game ($40MM/year). No “equity” here. Yes, Matilda, the world of sport is America’s model for pure capitalism, the engine of individual freedom and prosperity. And nobody messes with it. Ironically, irrationally, shamefully, stupidly, unethically and criminally, America’s major public and private sectors — government, business, education, places of worship and healthcare — are neck deep in DEI pathology. The last time you looked, the CEOs, Legislators, Educators, Pastors and Administrators — the leaders — push WOKE pathology to curry favor under the boot of Federal extortion. But please don’t think the elite ruling class actually lives the WOKE lie. WOKE is strictly for the minions of the world, the doormats, the 2023 version of slaves. They are corporate employees who toe the line to keep their jobs. They are the obtuse, ungrateful millennials and Gen Z’s, who wrap themselves in hedonistic affluence. They are the minorities who prosper, based not on merit, but on skin color and/or  gender. They are America’s dependents who sell their self worth and self respect to the Democrat Party for a handout. Essentially, WOKE is saying to these minorities: “You need help because you are inferior, inadequate, unworthy and lack the brainpower or work ethic to take care of yourself; but always remember, you can count on us.” It’s the same message the Carpetbaggers had for freed slaves in 1865: “We’re going to give you one acre and a mule — just remember who should get your vote.” One hundred fifty eight years later,  little has changed. Slavery still exists. You don’t have to be owned as chattel to be “owned. ” History is the undisputed teacher on this judgment. Until 1776, history was (and still is) an unending repetition  of dictatorship under kings, queens, emperors, czars, oligarchs — under fascist tyrants.  Under monarchies, or under communism today, “free” people exist with chains. America was an astonishing attempt to limit aristocratic rule by announcing that “all men are created equal . . . . ” Eventually, at great human cost, those words and that promise were fulfilled. Sovereign individuals were free to chart their own lives and elect their own leaders who were bound to a moral code and limited power. Unfortunately, both the code and the limitations have fallen to tyranny.  Frankly, without a reawakening of the American Principle, the USA is destined to take its place in the long line of dictatorships like Marxism, in this case cloaked in euphemisms like DEI. And future generations may exclaim, “Why in the world did the people let that happen?” There’s only one answer. They just did, as countless generations of people before them.

*** https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-south-carolina-education-courses-centered-social-justice-anti-racism

*** https://donoharmmedicine.org/2022/12/26/we-found-out-how-woke-the-university-of-south-carolina-school-of-medicine-really-is/

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