June 11, 2023

We’re told by the left that our history of slavery is America’s original sin.  They insist that since some of our founders failed to honor the God-given rights of all humans, our founding principles are flawed, and America remains unsalvageable.  So why is the left demanding a headlong rush back to slavery — this time administered by state rather than plantation masters?

‘); googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1609268089992-0’); }); document.write(”); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.pubads().addEventListener(‘slotRenderEnded’, function(event) { if (event.slot.getSlotElementId() == “div-hre-Americanthinker—New-3028”) { googletag.display(“div-hre-Americanthinker—New-3028”); } }); }); }

Just days before the election of 2008, Barack Obama declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

He didn’t promise to heal, tweak, or improve America.  He promised to “fundamentally transform” America.  That is precisely what the radicals have been working toward — using woke ideology to accomplish it.

“Woke” originally was used to indicate an awareness of racial injustice.  However, it has expanded to include all elements of social injustice — as defined by the self-proclaimed social justice warriors.  According to the woke, all the injustices are “systemic.”  The rich are more successful than the poor not because they worked harder and made better decisions.  It’s because the system is unjust.  We’re told that America is plagued with systemic racism.  It’s not that there are evil people among us; it’s that the system is unjust.  The system needs to be transformed — to achieve social justice.

‘); googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1609270365559-0’); }); document.write(”); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.pubads().addEventListener(‘slotRenderEnded’, function(event) { if (event.slot.getSlotElementId() == “div-hre-Americanthinker—New-3035”) { googletag.display(“div-hre-Americanthinker—New-3035”); } }); }); }

The social justice of “woke” has expanded to include:

  • climate justice,
  • minority justice,
  • sexual justice,
  • gender justice (not the same as sexual justice),
  • economic justice, and
  • moral justice (i.e., moral relativism).

Woke ideology demands human behavior consistent with the demands of social justice across all elements of society.  It requires top-down control of all Americans — down to our very beliefs and behaviors.  That would indeed be “fundamental transformation.”

But “fundamentally transform” America into what?  America was founded as a self-governed country, based on individual rights and respecting private property (capitalism).  A fundamental change to that foundation would be centrally governed, based on communal rights and public control of property.

Our three-year COVID nightmare gave us a glimpse of what a fundamentally transformed America would be.  Pandemic protocols gave us a taste of our future if our current flirtation with socialism/communism is not arrested.

The commune (the state) determined who could work and when.  Those deemed “essential” were allowed to continue working.  Others were denied employment.

The commune dictated what people could and could not do with their own property.  Property owners were denied access to their land and possessions.  Landlords were prohibited from collecting rent on their properties.  Small businesses were shuttered while their mega-corporation competition was allowed to thrive.