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What do you observe when you view this picture? I observe the demise of the Democratic Party. All four individuals in this photograph were democrats at some point in their lives, and in 2024, they united under the republican banner to challenge their former party.

They believe that the democrat party has been overtaken by extreme progressive elements that employ force and manipulation to influence public thought. What troubles me is that when a significant portion of the Democratic Party views this image, they perceive it as representing racists, Nazis, and white supremacists. The woke mindset has become so widespread within the Democratic Party that truth and common sense have been supplanted by an ideology that discourages rational thought.

It seems that once the woke ideology takes hold, it disables various cognitive functions that are essential for applying common sense and factual reasoning in the pursuit of truth. The necessity of eliminating what is often referred to as wokeism from our party cannot be overstated. If we permit these far left ideologies to shape our narrative, we risk losing future elections. Americans are increasingly weary of progressive ideals and are no longer willing to engage with them. This has become a significant liability for the Democratic Party as we look ahead.

So, just how deeply has the ideology known as wokeism permeated the thoughts of progressives? https://youtu.be/IVotofpFE5M?si=GA-Lx-pWaDdR0Oix Here's a striking example of a progressive transgender woman articulating the belief that the Paralympics should be integrated into the Olympics, as everyone is equal. In this perspective, differentiating individuals based on gender, sex, or ability is viewed as racist, misogynistic, or insensitive within the framework of wokeism. That's correct, this progressive trans woman believes that not only should women compete with men in the Olympics, but so should individuals with disabilities. This serves as a clear illustration of how wokeism can permeate one's thinking, leading to a disregard for common sense.

Wokeism instills such fear in individuals about their perceived virtue and their role in protecting society's minorities that they are prepared to impose pain and suffering on others. This is done in the pursuit of being recognized as the most kind, virtuous, and understanding individuals on the planet. It's a complex issue that I don't fully grasp yet, but I do recognize that it has significantly influenced the Democratic Party. We won't succeed in future elections until we address this challenge, as the American electorate is unlikely to support the Democrats again until they move past wokeism.

Individuals seek happiness and wish to greet each day with anticipation for a fulfilling life, yet wokeism hinders that pursuit. Wokeism conveys the message that the world is inherently unfair, particularly for those who do not identify as white males. Wokeism aims to instill feelings of depression and anxiety in those who embrace its misleading narratives. Wokeism aims to create a sense of compliance among individuals, allowing a select few at the top to influence the larger population into thinking that these leaders possess all the solutions to happiness. Consequently, people are encouraged to simply follow the guidance of those in power, who claim to hold the keys to universal contentment. This is a fraudulent scheme and a perilous belief system that results in emotional distress and mental manipulation.

It has taken over the most significant political party to ever exist, and I hope to witness the defeat of the so called woke mind virus known as wokeism before my time is up. That way I can feel a sense of pride in my party once more, reminiscent of the years when common sense prevailed within the Democratic Party.

Wasn't there a white woman who identified as a black woman some years back and led some pro-black cause or other? That sounds pretty woke to me; why did she garner so much negativity?

Okay, but do you have any examples of people who left your beloved democratic party who aren't undocumented aliens from the planet - assholesrus?

People who think what's happened to the Democratic party is worse than what has happened to the GOP are irrational and can't be saved.

Right... we should be more worried about people seeking equality in their clumsy ways than we should a party full of liars, thieves, hypocrites and wannabe dictators trying to eliminate our freedom.

I call this HFAS: Head Firmly up the Ass Syndrome. You make it sound like the American people are sensible and were right to choose Trump. damned dumb.

Jeff Bezos told his employees that all companies die and Amazon one day too will die. Every empire dies and every political party will someday die. Instead of sadness, why not embrace the new? It seems like you've found sanity in Donald Trump and Musk-turned-heel, so why not become Republican and sail into the prosperity that you believe they will bring to the nation?

Some Schmo wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:36 pm

People who think what's happened to the Democratic party is worse than what has happened to the GOP are irrational and can't be saved.

Right... we should be more worried about people seeking equality in their clumsy ways than we should a party full of liars, thieves, hypocrites and wannabe dictators trying to eliminate our freedom.

Well put, SS!

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I know what will help.

Mass deportations.

Hound of Heaven wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 12:37 pm

What do you observe when you view this picture? I observe the demise of the Democratic Party.

HTH:

canpakes wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:20 pm

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I know what will help.

Mass deportations.

But of who?

Chap wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 7:11 pm

canpakes wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:20 pm

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I know what will help.

Mass deportations.

But of who?

Perhaps of The Woke Right.

Hound points out an important issue. Would Hound advocate for replacing the Woke Left (which is now dead and gone anyway, having been killed off by King Trump as a distraction against ever-rising grocery prices) with an even more pernicious Woke Right?

From The Atlantic:

One of the defining features of the social-justice orthodoxy that swept through American culture between roughly the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 to Hamas's assault on Israel in 2023 was the policing of language. Many advocates became obsessed with enforcing syntactical etiquette and banishing certain words.

"Wokeness," as it's known, introduced the asymmetrical capitalization of the letter b in Black but not the w in white. It forced Romance languages like Spanish to submit to gender-neutral constructions such as Latinx. It called for the display of pronouns in email signatures and social-media bios. It replaced a slew of traditional words and phrases: People were told to stop saying master bedroom, breastfeeding, manpower, and brown-bag lunch, and to start saying primary bedroom, chestfeeding, workforce, and sack lunch. At the extreme, it designated certain words - such as brave - beyond redemption.

This was often a nuisance and sometimes a trap, causing the perpetual sense that one might inadvertently offend and consequently self-destruct. In certain industries and professions, wrongspeak had tangible consequences. In 2018, Twitter introduced a policy against "dehumanizing language" and posts that "deadnamed" transgender users (or referred to them by their pre-transition names). Those who were judged to have violated the rules could be banned or suspended.

Donald Trump promised that his election would free Americans from ever having to worry about saying the wrong thing again. He even signed an executive order titled "Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship." But a few weeks into his administration, we hardly find ourselves enjoying a culture of free speech and tolerance for opposing views. Almost immediately, the president did the opposite of what he'd promised and put together his own linguistic proscriptions. Most of the banned words related to gender and diversity, and this time the rules had the force of the government behind them.

"Fear that other words could run afoul of the new edicts led anxious agency officials to come up with lists of potentially problematic words on their own," wrote Shawn McCreesh in The New York Times. These included: "Equity. Gender. Transgender. Nonbinary. Pregnant people. Assigned male at birth. Antiracist. Trauma. Hate speech. Intersectional. Multicultural. Oppression. Such words were scrubbed from federal websites."

Plus ça change. The government itself determining the limits of acceptable speech is undeniably far more chilling and pernicious - and potentially unconstitutional - than private actors attempting to do so. But what is most striking about this dismal back-and-forth is how well it demonstrates that the illiberal impulse to dictate what can and cannot be said is always fundamentally the same, whether it appears on the right or the left.

An extraordinary number of conservatives have ignored and even delighted in their side's astonishing hypocrisy. But a few consistent defenders of free speech have not gone along with what they see as the new "woke right."