{"id":1562,"date":"2023-03-20T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/american-restoration\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:54:54","slug":"american-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/american-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"American Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Substack<\/em> articles by Bruce Abramson. From his About page<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suppose you think that it\u2019s wrong to discriminate based on race. To the Woke, you\u2019re a racist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you say that humans are either male or female. To the Woke, that\u2019s dehumanizing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you champion free speech. To the Woke, you\u2019re promoting hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you think that the ends don\u2019t justify the means. To the Woke, you\u2019re impeding justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you believe in God. To the Woke, you\u2019re an unstable superstitious bigot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The list of such absurd defamations is long, and it grows longer every day. But it\u2019s no joke. Once the woke have labeled you a hateful, dehumanizing, unstable racist whose mere existence stands in the way of justice, they will treat you as if that\u2019s who you really are. They will work to destroy you\u2014terminate your personal relationships, professional aspirations, and financial possibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worst of all, the Woke are winning. The United States is mired in a Second Civil War. The country no longer functions as either a free society or a constitutional republic. Every single one of our major institutions has been corrupted: Academia, K-12 education, the media, the civil service, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the legal and medical professions, and nearly every important professional society. Recent years have even uncovered deep Woke rot running corporate boardrooms, the IRS, FBI, CIA, NSA, and the military.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaders and organizations that are not Woke themselves cower in fear and fall in line. More than 60% of American report being afraid to voice their opinions; they fear woke reprisal.<\/span><\/p>\n

This situation is neither tolerable nor sustainable. If we don\u2019t move quickly to restore the free society America was born to be, we will slide irretrievably into an autocratic, elitist oligarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are beyond the time of timidity and prudence. We have become both the counterculture and counterrevolutionaries. Very little of what we have done in the past is suited to those roles. If we are to restore America, we will need new lessons, strategies, tactics, and priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

This essay series is for those who want to master the techniques we need.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is Abramson exaggerating? I'd say he isn't. What say you?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Substack articles by Bruce Abramson. From his About page: Suppose you think that it\u2019s wrong to discriminate based on race. To the Woke, you\u2019re a racist. Suppose you say that humans are either male or female. To the Woke, that\u2019s dehumanizing. Suppose you champion free speech. To the Woke, you\u2019re promoting hatred. Suppose you think … Continue reading “American Restoration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,163,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civilization-and-its-discontents","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-ponerology","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}