I had originally written this article years ago and turned prophetic about the soon end of the Woke reign of terror, as it could be seen now clearly with Trump victory. My insights about Woke fast power grab in 2020 are also pretty useful now.
Since I’m an old-school Star Wars fan, I used analogies from Star Wars movies (old ones before Lucasfilm sold the franchise to Disney and Disney in turn had mutilated Star Wars too with Woke agenda starting from 2015) to illustrate my points on Woke power grab. Enjoy the read!
Original Article
The year of 2020 was the year of the Woke Reign. It was the year of BLM, trans hysteria and Trump election defeat (most likely due to fraud as could be seen now and surely due to FBI election interference on suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop story - ed.), as we all remember. Both Woke elite and Woke mobs had finally came forth in all their ugly glory after decades of secret preparation and 'silent revolution' by overtaking of all our major Western institutions from universities to media, governments and largest corporations. But finally, the Woke time had come. They didn't have to hide any longer, and rushed forwards headlong, finally getting into public spotlight. At first, the public, already distressed by ongoing COVID crisis (that was no coincidence too as we will see later!), was so taken aback by the Woke sudden onslaught, that gave in to it, dazzled. That was the Woke triumph. However, it proved to be pretty short-lived. Last year, multiple fronts of resistance to the Woke tyranny had emerged, and the Woke influence in public discourse was largely undermined.
To understand how both of that happened, let us look at the Woke history. Our Left-leaning elite, the predecessors of the modern Woke, spent two last decades by stirring our old divisions based on our group identities, and creating new ones. Thus, elite had turned immigrants against locals, women against men, gays against straight, Blacks against white, etc. Now, I'm not saying they had completely made those divisions up. Our society unfortunately has a long shameful history of racism, sexism and homophobia. However, instead of helping to heal those old traumas, to celebrate the progress we as society made with regard to gay, women and Black rights, and to move on to the happy discrimination-free future, our corrupt and dishonest Left-wing elite had sprinkled a lot of salt upon our old wounds, and weaponized our traumas to turn us against each other. In addition to it, they had invented relatively new divisions along our group identities (trans activism being the most notable there since both transgenders and transphobia are relatively new terms).
Even more importantly, our Left leaning elite perverted and exaggerated the division along political lines by demonizing their right-wing and conservative opponents, and all their supporters by extension, equating them all with 'sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic bigots and haters', while elevating themselves and their own Left-wing supporters as 'highly virtuous and moral individuals, human rights and democracy and vulnerable minorities' defenders', etc. So then one couldn't even vote right any longer without being accused of bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. Thus, divisions along our group identities were artificially connected with those based on our political views. Certain political views were associated with a 'threat' to certain vulnerable identities while other political views - with their protection. That was pretty craftily done. This was the Woke preparation for their cultural revolution.
Now, back in 2020 the Woke puppeteers who remained largely in the shades before, had decided that their time had finally come. They judged that public at large was brainwashed and divided enough to embrace the more radical parts of their toxic ideology as well. Also, since public was largely distressed by COVID lockdowns, and, hence, at its most vulnerable (that’s why COVID crisis was no coincidence either but a scam), it was decided to be a perfect moment for the Woke cultural revolution and coming out of shades. The Woke 'Order 66' (analogy with Palpatine's Order 66 in Star Wars) was issued and executed. George Floyd's murder in US and JK Rowling 'transphobic comments' in UK were the signals to execute this order and to start the Woke grand assault on our democracy, culture and civilization.
So, in summer of 2020 all kind of hell broke loose. BLM and Antifa radicals had invaded American streets with violent riots, burning and looting with impunity. While American public was at large shocked by this unprecedented demonstration of violence and lawlessness, American media and elite were well prepared to it and knew exactly what to do (after all, it's Woke elites from media and large corporations who had given a signal to BLM and Antifa radicals to invade the streets of American cities!). So, American largest Left leaning media outlets like CNN and New York Times began to cover up for BLM and Antifa, presenting dangerous violent riots as 'peaceful protests for racial justice'. At the same time, Big Tech social media giants started to censor the evidence of violence perpetrated by BLM and Antifa radicals from their platforms as 'misinformation'. Meanwhile, American Democratic politicians and largest corporations pledged their support to BLM movement for 'racial justice' one by one, as by the command as well. It all unambiguously proved a corrupt collision between American media, Big Tech, largest corporations and Democratic politicians with BLM and Antifa radicals against American people. This was done so craftily, and American public was so distressed by COVID crisis and so distracted by Trump scapegoat figure due to TDS, that initially almost no one had noticed the foul play behind the scenes, and pledged their support to BLM and Antifa radicals as well (now this picture luckily changes as more and more people are opening their eyes to the lies of the elite).
At the same time, the Woke trans activists had stricken on another front, vilifying and verbally abusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling for very reserved and actually reasonable comments. Now, for most people those two events - BLM riots in US and JK Rowling trans row in UK - seemed to be completely unrelated and happening in different countries even, but in truth they were closely connected and both were staged and directed by the same groups of people! It’s crucial to understand, and I’m not sure many people still understand its significance. Moreover, indeed, the same people who were cheering BLM and Antifa riots on American streets, were condemning JK Rowing on the Internet pages. Media and elite reaction was also the same. One by one all our celebrities, including Harry Potter cast, began to denounce JK Rowling as 'transphobic'. The witch hunt had began.
Why exactly JK Rowling was chosen as a target of the Woke rage? Well, she was pretty famous and influential person. One of the richest and most popular writers in the world, after all. If the Woke would have been able to break and/or cancel even her, it would have looked like a dire admonition and grave warning to any other, much less influential dissenters. Like, 'look, all her money and influence didn't protect her from us, then nothing would protect you as well, so shut up and put up with all our demands'. The Woke didn't fully succeed with their mission, though. They were unable to break JK and to force her to apologize as they would have liked, she was too strong for that. They were unable to fully cancel her as well, she was too rich and influential for that either. Yet, they were still able to damage JK reputation significantly, to turn a lot of young adults who loved HP books against their author, and to create a serious row between JK and HP cast. So, the harm was still done, and the grave warning to dissidents was delivered, even if not in its 'full glory'.
Again, it's very important to understand that both BLM riots and JK Rowling trans row were the links of the same chain and were staged by the same people, just on different fronts. But it all was the Woke 'Order 66', nevertheless. The technique was almost identical in both of those cases, and it was unmistakably Woke. Why had the Woke needed those two separate and seemingly unrelated assaults? Well, the Woke are greedy, and they wanted to achieve hegemony in both race and gender discourses which both are of the utmost importance to them. Also, by initiating two of those seemingly unrelated events at the same time, the Woke created an illusion as if it all happened by itself as a result of 'societal change to the better' and wasn't really staged by them. That was craftily planned and executed, again.
As a result of this carefully planned and executed plan, the Woke elites had grabbed an unprecedented power. Indeed, now anyone who dared to critisize BLM was immediately denounced as 'racist', censored, deplatformed and even fired from their jobs. Anyone who dared to defend JK Rowling was equally denounced as 'transphobic', and met with the same treatment. To go against Woke party line seemed impossible any longer. By the click of the button, the Woke were able to delete anyone who dared to oppose them and to challenge their power. It indeed looked like Woke triumph. It seemed even COVID was playing into the Woke hands back then, allowing them to frame Trump and his supporters as 'selfish science deniers' responsible for so many lives lost in US.
The Woke Empire had reached its zenith after American 2020 election when 'evil neo Nazi' Trump was defeated to the utter delight of the both Woke elite and mobs. Now they could openly jeer at Trump and Republican supporters. The victory was with the Woke, after all. Later, the affairs looked even better for them after FBI infiltrated Capitol Hill riots when Trump supporters in their frustration over election results which they believed to be falsified due to Trump repeated claims of election fraud (not entirely unfounded as it turned out now), had discredited themselves largely yet again before the public with a little help from FBI, and the Woke media and elite made sure to make the most of it, stirring the public hatred to those 'evil bigots and neo Nazi' to its fullest, and falsely equating Capitol Hill with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Yeah, that was the Woke golden age indeed.
However, the Woke reign proved to be short-lived. What the Woke elites and their brainwashed mobs had seen as their triumph, had in truth become their downfall. Again, the Woke were able to succeed only because the public was dazzled by their impetuous onslaught, and fogged by media and their favourite celebrities support for the Woke. But when initial shock was over, many people were able to put two and two together. Thus, after BLM and Antifa violent riots (despite all media cover up for them as of 'mostly peaceful protests'), utterly cringe and deranged Defund the Police campaign, and equally deranged and unhinged trans hysteria around JK Rowling, much more people had seen the true face of the Woke Left, and this face was ugly. Its ugliness became even more apparent when Trump who due to his colorful rudeness was drawing a significant share of public attention on himself was finally gone, and much more people were able to see a lot of pretty evil, lunatic and dangerous stuff coming from the Woke Left like Critical Race Theory or trans radicalism, in all their ugliness, which they didn't notice before, ostensibly because of Trump and TDS. This had opened a lot of eyes both in US (as Virginia elections had shown to us) and abroad when for example French mainstream press began to actively condemn American Woke derangement.
But more importantly, COVID crisis and new COVID international policies began to draw public attention from the Wokeism and toxic divisions and hatred it was stirring in our societies. Now, people were much more concerned with ongoing plandemic which refused to end after two years despite of vaccination of almost 80% of Western population, than with 'systemic racism' or 'transphobia'. Also, new divisions with regards to COVID crisis and more importantly COVID policies are becoming increasingly more important than all our old divisions based on our group identities and political views.
The Woke themselves had largely contributed to their downfall as well by their own utterly wild and lunatic claims and policies. I mean, comparisons of Capitol Hill riots with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor coming from the White House itself were bound to draw public attention. Utterly deranged Defund the Police campaign same as equally deranged and unrealistic Woke goals of 'zero emissions' or 'zero COVID death toll' were showing the true monstrosity and lunacy of the Wokeism much more than any Republican propaganda could have done. Critical Race Theory brainwashing of kids in American schools had opened many parents' eyes as well, same as wild push to give trans hormones to kids. All of this had contributed to the Woke lunatics going down the drain. Well, they didn't completely go down the drain yet unfortunately, but they had lost most of the power they had gained back in 2020 though. Multiple fronts of resistance to the Woke lunatics are rising both inside and outside US, and more and more people are opening their eyes to the Woke lunacies daily. That's good.
After all, the Woke were too complacent and too confident after their successful cultural onslaught back in 2020. They didn't realize that they were able to grab power only because they had successfully dazzled the public in already hard times for it due to COVID. When public had come to its senses and saw the Woke monster in all its 'glory', it rebelled against it, and rejected it. Good.
Damn Alex! You’ve hit the nail on the head!
Now I want to see a “wake” (funeral) for the “Woke” ideology.
Sounds about right. And I am cautiously optimistic that Woke reign has indeed passed.
Still, it was widespread and international, and was carefully and craftfully orchestrated. We need to determine the suspects who caused it all, and prosecute them accordingly. A lot of people died or were injured during ridiculous summer of 2020.
And the cancerous people responsible are still out there ... ready to it again if no accountability happens.