5 ways woke rebels become conforming robots

In the baboon community, the alpha male is the last one to adopt innovations discovered by the group. This insulates the leader if changes are dangerous. However, if changes benefit the group, like moving to an area with enough food for all, stubbornly defending the status quo will not hurt the alpha male. In other words, this leadership is not enlightened, only self-serving. It reminds you of a mob boss, a looter, or violent antifa thug, doesn't it?

How does this relate to staying "woke" as a gateway to conformity? Why do open borders, open showers and open season on unborn children, individual liberty, conservatives and freedom of conscience destroy a country? Because the majority is hurt by those policies, not the elite. Being a rebel used to mean being patriotic, loving the Constitution, defending the Bill of Rights, and fighting against historical norms.

Our Founding Fathers were rebels who codified freedom into law, and militated against powers of centralized government and foreign control. The civil rights movement began a worthy struggle the same way, against the injustice of the establishment. MLK lauded our Constitution as a "promissory note" that will deliver freedom to all Americans. The media fought the good fight, standing beside him in marches. Unfortunately, after he died, they became corrupt and sought powers beyond what the Constitution enumerated. Hating America became necessary to establish socialism. Here's what the left will never admit publicly: Socialist rebels become tyrants once in power.

Today, libs and socialists don't "rage against the machine" – they are the machine, the Deep State, the status quo. So-called rebels are defending these everywhere, in academia, in public schools, the media, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, in unions, abortion mills, in thousands of courtrooms, the public sector, at the FBI, DOJ, at the U.N. and in globalist corporate conference rooms. Holding onto power at any cost is their main objective. These woke rebels are not rebels at all. They are establishment zombies who fight for conformity in five ways:

1. They attack free speech. Groupthink becomes the moral arbiter in society. Hate speech laws, fear of boycotts or losing advertisers impel corporations to fire those who offend liberal orthodoxy.

Social media platforms provide cover for invisible character assassins who collectively pass judgment on innocent people. Anonymous sources and media charlatans become a moral tribunal of amoral gossips. Do Kavanaugh haters come to mind? The sheer volume of attacks against conservative principles and religious folk makes them seem more legitimate. Zeitgeist lends dignity to the conformist by making his opinions appear universal.

2. They socialize entire private-sector industries. The Obamacare debacle allowed the IRS to mandate health-care coverage, put personal medical information into the hands of bureaucrats and compelled the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their conscience by conforming to abortion coverage provisions for employees. Millions of dollars in fines were levied against them by government bullies for not complying. Eventually, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in their favor.

The more a government controls the economic activities of people, the higher the cost to those who dissent. A government's power inequality never grows without widening income inequality. See my WND column "3 ways socialism hurts people." Greed does not become more noble when its collective power spawns socialism. There is an alternative. Sow more skills in the marketplace. Competence in sowing yields more than greed in reaping.

Global corporations, not loyal to America or her workers, have joined the political correctness mania. They now routinely hide behind employment clauses and "terms of use" language to punish free speech. They blacklist known conservatives. They shadow-ban conservative content and demonetize their businesses. They crack down on traditional, nonviolent political or religious beliefs of employees expressed outside of business hours.

3. They indoctrinate children. In the Communist Manifesto's 10 planks, Marx states, "Free education for all children in public schools." How did China bend Tibet to its will? By criminalizing their culture, exiling their spiritual leader Dalai Lama, expunging their history, their language, and by establishing government schools that force-fed communist indoctrination. Sadly, the Democratic Party did something similar to American Indians, and later to African-Americans by supporting slavery and codifying Jim Crow laws and segregation.

4. They criminalize dissent. Bill Nye, (not a) science guy, is open to jail time for climate change dissenters. In Canada, quoting certain passages in the Holy Bible is a criminal offense. Hate-speech laws require thought police and permit longer prison sentences.

5. They embrace secular fundamentalism. The Bible and the Constitution are the two biggest obstacles to Americans conforming to socialist/communist doctrine. Those pushing such doctrine must undermine the authority of God and America's love of freedom. Atheism and Marxism are the two poisons that can kill American culture. The sugarcoating of social justice and redistribution of personal wealth disguise
these toxic destroyers.

Post this at every school function: "No government that takes away property rights will leave religious freedom unmolested." Freedom of conscience gets in the way of socialism. How can it be delegitimized? Libel it as illegal discrimination if expressed in a privately held business. If the punishment is severe enough, people will conform to secularism. Fundies may not believe in God, but hell is a recurring hate-fantasy against those who disagree with them. For liberals, God's Judgment Day refers mainly to punishing others. That's all they need from God. Not love thy neighbor, faith, forgiveness, not refraining from bearing false witness.

Here's the good news. Socialism is like cancer; it feeds on the wealth of a nation until it goes bust. But, as the saying goes, "This too shall pass." Improve your skills instead. Thank God for your blessings. It's easier to be woke than competent. That's why socialism is morally bankrupt.