The End of Wokism Won't Be Pretty

The overwhelming fact about the current left epitomized by the Woke left erupting in the Democratic Party and in SJWs and the cancel culture is that it is not going to go away until the American people strike it on the head, right between the eyes, with an axe.

Here's an American Spectator piece reckoning that the Democrats have No Idea what they are getting themselves into with an impeachment trial in the Senate. Why, the GOP could even order Hillary Clinton to testify. This shows that the young Woke Democrats have not yet developed a strategic instinct that allows them to understand what may well happen around the next corner.

Here's an NRO piece reporting on the Democrats' plans for their next administration.

This president could roll back Trump’s deregulatory efforts, bring backed stalled Obama initiatives, and launch government giveaways and major assaults on business, all without the legislative branch’s help.

Erase student debt, Green New Deal, hit up drug companies. All without a vote of Congress.

There are two problems here. First of all is the idea that the educated and the evolved think we need massive new injections of Force into American life: that everyone should be Forced to enroll in a one-size-fits-all health program; that everyone should be Forced to completely change energy use, etc., because End of the World.

This philosophy flies in the face of the One Big Thing of the last two centuries, that it is amazing what humans can do by cooperating together without the resort to Force.

Now, our lefty friends have seized upon one aspect of this, in their utter condemnation of War and Imperialism. Couldn't agree more, chaps.

But then they amp war up to the limit on the domestic front with class war, race war, sex war, etc. The whole point of leftist politics is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Golly Saul. Your Rules for Radicals sounds suspiciously close to War, old chap. Sounds like the first thing you radicals need is an Enemy. Are you telling me that all this stuff about Peace and Justice is just a cunning trick to disarm the deplorables so that you can then drive your lefty SJW panzers into our heartland and enslave us to your fantastical power fantasies?

Still I understand why. If you elevate politics to the status of a religion then you have to have war, and armies, and enemies. Because politics is war by other means.

And indeed, Lenin took the natural tendency of revolutions to end in the frenzy of a witch hunt or a Reign of Terror and made it the central principle of his Bolshevik regime, to use Force to the utmost. To make domestic politics into total war. He understood the internal logic of leftism. That it is all about Force.

But Lenin and all the lefties that come after him, down to the Four Idiots that call themselves The Squad, have completely missed this fundamental lesson, that the whole point of humans is social cooperation, not human force.

Now back in the old days cooperation was encouraged by, e.g., Christianity. Indeed, Nietzsche points out how that works, with his insult that "the priests" taught us to hate each other. Yes, Fritzi, that is exactly the point. Before you plunge your sword into the other guy, you think, hey, maybe I'm the guy that has the problem.

But in the Great Reaction which is the Left, it is always the other guy that has the problem: the bourgeoisie, the capitalists, the rich. And now white supremacists and racist sexist homophobes.

Hey lefties! Suppose the problem was You.

OK. Let's back off a bit. Suppose you lefties are right about almost everything. But what about that one little thing that you got wrong? How would you know?

And, lefties, don't forget that now we have settled science on a lot of this stuff. Economics. Game theory. Prisoner's Dilemma. All of this settled science tends to explain why the last 200 years has been the age of the Great Enrichment, in which slavery and subordination has been radically reduced so that nobodies could invent stuff and get it built and change the world.

And then you lefties came along and built the two biggest slave societies in history.

Yep, that's some achievement. Lefties. Greatest slave societies in history. Put that on a monument!

Hmm. I'd better put that in my Maxims. Lefties created the two greatest slave societies in history.

How about them apples, lefties?

So I say that the current eruption of Wokism is bound to end in tears. The only question is whether the tears will be the tears of all the widows and orphans caused by the lefty Celebration of Force or whether the tears will come from the lefties weeping over the failure of Wokism to win the votes and the hearts of ordinary Americans.

And with everything in this world, the jury is still out.