Woke is Dead reads the title of journalist Piers Morgan’s recently rolled out book. President Donald Trump may subscribe to Morgan’s thesis, too; he said months ago that the U.S. is “woke no longer.”
If only.
The reality is that wokeness, asserts The Christian Post, “isn’t dead, dying, hospitalized or even hiding.” The Telegraph warns likewise, writing:
Heralding the end of woke is like heralding the end of cancer. Sane people would love it to happen, and people are working hard on it, but it’s not even remotely the case now or soon.
Good analogy, but here’s where it’s lacking: Some people are working on it. But unlike with cancer, other people are working hard to spread it to all of us.
Why do many believe the woke era is past? With Trump’s ascendancy, the federal government has largely (completely?) stopped agencies from funneling money to woke, social-engineering entities. The administration has, for example, threatened to freeze the funding of approximately 60 leftism-peddling universities. Yet such pressure has caused many entities to merely rebrand their woke initiatives. For example, multiple companies are reportedly continuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs — under different names.
To really grasp how embedded “wokeness” is, however, it’s necessary to understand what it really is. Contrary to common belief, the phenomenon wasn’t born when the word currently describing it, “woke,” entered our lexicon (2017). Rather, it’s an intensification of “political correctness”; i.e., “the suppression of Truth for the purposes of promoting a left-wing agenda.” And political correctness is a brand of evil that has bedeviled us for many decades. It hasn’t gone anywhere, either.
Toxic Schools
For example, consider what The Christian Post’s Percy Sinclair uncovered during an investigation. He points out that 87 percent of American children still attend government schools — institutions that are still aggressively left-wing.
Sinclair conducted research in a Trump-voting county (66 percent in 2020, 68 percent in 2024) in which he once lived. Searching library catalogs, he found 690 books with sexual devolutionary (“LGBT”) themes across 23 schools, including every elementary school. The details follow:
- Elementary schools — 50 books featuring themes such as homosexual families, drag queens (e.g., RuPaul for ages six-plus), revisionist Stonewall-riots narratives (K-3 level), and cross-dressing history.
- Middle schools — almost 170 books, including graphic novels involving teen crushes on older counselors or same-sex love triangles. These books normalize homosexuality, coming out, and “gender identity” in a grooming-like manner.
- High schools — nearly 470 books, with some normalizing teen-adult homosexual affairs or crushes on older men. Themes include the affirmation of homosexuality, “transgenderism,” and coming out as “just who you are.”
Of course, “who you are” is a child of God, but don’t dare mention that in school.
Adding perspective, Sinclair mentions that his county is in a conservative state with 72 percent Christian identification (46 percent evangelical). The wokeness is likely even worse in liberal states.
Note here that The New American (TNA) has for years warned about how leftism permeates even the most traditional regions. As for schools, the issue is in part that all the teachers generally emerge from the same teachers colleges. They also tend to use the same textbooks, which are infused with woke, but often unrecognized, propaganda.
For more on this topic, read the following TNA articles:
No-so-jolly Old England
Also writing about this, just today, is The Telegraph’s Zoe Strimpel. Talking about Britain, which largely does mirror the United States on this, she warns that woke ideology persists in arts, publishing, and healthcare. Here’s a summary of examples she provides:
Terms such as “chest-feeding” and “pregnant people” are still used.
Holocaust narratives avoid the term “Jew” so as to not “privilege” white victims.
In education, Oxford University prioritizes “representativeness” over merit, resulting in 16 percent of black undergraduates admitted despite lacking grade qualifications (vs. six percent white, two percent Chinese). Epitomized by Oxford Union president George Abaraonye’s subpar admission, this social engineering undermines hardworking students, including minorities.
Wokeness’ anti-Western bias fuels attacks on Israeli businesses and bans on Israeli fans, falsely labeling them as genocidal.
Recent U.S. murders, such as Charlie Kirk’s assassin citing “trans” rights, Brian Thompson’s killer targeting “capitalist parasites,” and embassy staff killings for “Palestine,” reflect wokeness’ justification of violence under a “justice” narrative.
In the UK, the “rape gangs” inquiry reveals truths about Pakistani-Muslim perpetrators suppressed over “racism” fears.
A principal was pressured to soften “sinister” descriptions of a Rwandan teen (later a murderer) to avoid racial profiling, potentially costing lives.
And how is Britain relevant to the United States? Well, whether SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) or a mind virus, what happens overseas doesn’t stay overseas in our now “small” world. Evil’s existence anywhere is a threat to goodness’ existence everywhere.
The Bottom Line
The truth is that wokeness — a manifestation of evil, really — is thoroughly embedded in our system. It has its millions of foot soldiers, officials in government, academia, media, big tech, corporate America, and entertainment. Coming to mind here, too, is what late Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov stated in the mid-’80s already. (Yes, it goes back that far and further.) Calling these people products of an “ideological subversion” process, he warned that they are “programmed.” You are “stuck with them,” he said.
Bezmenov also elaborated on this subversion, saying:
What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that, despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
Sound like anyone you know, or don’t want to know — or know of?
In addition, Bezmenov pointed out the obvious: The only remedy is inculcating an entire generation with an authentically American sense of virtue (what most call “values”). Not easy?
No, it’s not. But until and unless this is done, wokeness, by this name or some other, will ever plague us. In fact, the steroid-engorged iteration may be just one presidential election away.
