“wokeness” now appears to be just an obnoxious rhetorical style that helps cover for something else: a coercive system administered by governing elites that demands adherence to an ever-expanding corpus of basically random sets of laws and regulations designed to keep the lower classes in check. If that doesn’t remind you of the communist dictatorship in North Korea, I don’t know what would.
What would? Excusing every proven fault and flaw and *actual crime* of an elected official and stumping tirelessly to reinstate him as ultimate power and authority when he has said repeatedly and often that he NEVER INTENDS TO STEP DOWN! That's what would remind me of North Korea, the literal same cult of personality emerging within america's borders. But sure, I guess to you it's diversity training.
There's no even conversing with a mind this strange.
Yet I feel duty-bound to point out, this incessant conflation of "wokeness" with "elites" which is the most ridiculous plank in the Republican platform ever. Anything you would call "woke" is absent in 95% of elected officials the country over, and very possibly more of the wealthy. While the left is pretty proud to be able to claim more actors/singers/entertainers than the right, it's still true that anyone with any kind of political or economic power is overwhelmingly likely to be fiscally if not socially conservative. So trying to leverage that into a worldview where, inexplicably, there's some massive governmental push to shove butterflies and rainbows down everyone's throat is again, unhinged. They just overturned Roe, did you not hear? Most conservative supreme court in our lifetime-? Literally how anyone can be out here complaining about "wokeness" is beyond me- unless it's just a smokescreen for 'I don't like how free all these plebes seem to feel lately and I want some boot to crush them'. Which it is.
