WOKEISM: A Preface to a Serious Series

Joke to Woke... to Joke

Preface

From my days climbing the ranks, from the ground up, into senior I.T. executive management, and all the related experiences associated with that, I am convinced that half of Americans are full-time mentally ill. I’m not a doctor, but just as I do not have to be a criminologist to recognize a crime, I do not need to be a mental health professional to recognize illnesses of the mind - and what those manifest in the public sphere.

There are plenty of definitions for “illness” but this will do. From Merriam-Webster:

ILLNESS (noun): an unhealthy condition of body or mind.

I’m not speaking of people in sanitariums or within formal treatment… for such things as major delusions, hallucinations, disorganization of thought/speech, addiction to drugs, and other maladies and psychoses - although plenty of that abounds now in general society… and was even prevalent inside the Biden White House.

Rather, I’m talking about people who are working in stations high and low, supposedly sustaining the country, and in other instances “running” the country. Again, I’m no doctor, but you don’t have to be to realize that many people among us simply cannot mount rational thought and match it to rational action. I’ve worked with ‘em, supervised ‘em, fired ‘em, in some cases mistakenly hired ‘em.

I wasn’t going to delve into specifics in this Preface, but as a late-breaking example of delusions, and thus in my opinion, an illness, something distinctly unhealthy, just consider the CBS journalist, Margaret Brennan (and those behind the scenes at CBS), who consider free speech to be a contributor to the Holocaust. What?! Nazi Germany did not have free speech. (Just research Sophie Scholl and the White Rose group. I’ve written about her before). Indeed, if free speech had been practiced in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust may have been exposed early on to the wider world’s understanding, and mitigated or prevented.

Rather, the German Reich Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment ensured hard boundaries for what constituted speech in Nazi Germany’s media of the time: Radio, newspapers, books, magazines, and even pamphlets and leaflets. Speak out against the regime and its objectives and you were arrested, tried, convicted, and either shot, hanged, or guillotined.

Ms. Brennan: Free speech did not lead to the Holocaust. Rather, Nazi Germany’s suppression of free speech allowed its mount, spread, and sustained operation(s). This woman is a dummkopf. I’m willing to upgrade her to a hack. CBS crapped on itself with her rancid “reporting,” or “journaling,” or whatever it is she and her team do… and what “management” either encourages, allows, or feeds. Truly, “CBS” is a metaphor: See BullShit.

It seems that most of the mental illness harbors within those who identify as being on the political Left. I am out of patience with the political left - they are thoroughly corrupt, ill, and toxic. Not all on the Left are mentally ill/unstable: There are those charlatans who are adept, indeed expert, at capturing advantage of those who are unstable and corralling them to corrupt action(s), and thus subsequently capturing advantage of all of us.

Corrupt, ill, and toxic.

I think that's a nice summary of the left.

What used to be a joke is now Woke(ism). And now, Woke is being exposed to ever-more people as its start-point: A joke. It’s true that many, many of us have always seen Wokeism as such. But, we’ve seen it as a joke that was never funny… rather, one that is at best tragi-comic - and at worst annihilating: California? New Orleans? (Whether considering the truck attack, or Katrina). The Secret Service? The plummet in military recruitment - and related debasement of standards? (The latter hopefully having turned a corner). The flexibility and fungibility of an infinite number and variety of genders? We can go on and on. And on and on and on… Education? Schools? Test scores? America’s formerly porous borders thanks to a corrupt President Biden, half or more of Congress, and wokeism’s cancerous effect to the “three Rs,” STEM, plain sense, and its influence on sanctuary cities and even whole states?

Twenty or thirty years ago, the thought of teaching pre-pubescent children anything about sex probably wouldn’t even survive the writing/editing cycle for a Monty Python routine. What happened to simple hygiene classes?

Drag shows in K-12? Absolutely nuts. Carving time away from the “three Rs” and STEM” for DEI, CRT, ESG, LGBTQ2I+? A recipe for society’s crash and burn (literally in California’s case). Considerations of “homosexuality” had generally evolved into “I don’t give a damn who sleeps with who,” thus the political left had to widen the victim group, increase its population, and “abrase and stir” it into Pride Months and in-your-face protests and infiltration to schools, course curricula, and children’s vulnerable and indoctrinable minds. That, my friends and enemies, is SICK.

Matters of gay marriage and a few other collateral things aside, we just needed law-abiding citizens who could hold down jobs and deliver benefit to society… and to themselves (ourselves). As to the military, we needed people capable upon orders to break things and kill people, while holding ground and gaining ground. That’s all. Oh; it was also helpful if they could fly helicopters when trained and ordered to do so.

We now have people taking pride for immutable characteristics as if that represents accomplishment… or some special standing. In other words: You can and should take pride for simply standing in your shoes. That is the sick joke of our times. From Joke, to Woke, to joke.

In launching from this Preface, this series of articles on Wokeism will be difficult to start. Where to start? Subsequently, how to rank the emphases on Wokeism’s component parts, in setting a prioritization schema, for publication and illumination? For example, which parts need early definition (for these articles) and early understanding(s), in leading to subsequent understandings of “next parts of the puzzle(s),” and how at the same time to prioritize according to dangers, and needs for addressal, to assemble all (or most) into a cohesive-whole of attendant dangers: dangers to individuals, groups, and society-at-large?

Wokeism encompasses areas formal (well…) and informal. The former encompasses such things as “Identity,” DEI, ESG, CRT, LGBTQ2SA+…, and more. As to the latter (the informal, or less formal), these are no less corrosive. Things such as “my truth,” “offense is in the eye of the beholder,” “White males need not apply,” “No jail-no bail,” and other dictums are literally - literally - yielding a fast slide to pure lunacy. Trucks through crowds/trucks blowing up; murder on the subway; lighting someone on fire on the subway; prosecuting a “Good Samaritan” Marine,” multiple deportations and return of murderers, rapists, thieves… branding good Americans as (unarmed) insurrectionists and jailing them with no bail and indefinitely suspended jurisprudence… prosecution and persecution of a former-President-and-now-President… it appears America has lost its collective mind… until you realize it’s all coming from the idiot, ill, Political Left. Who can argue that they are healthy? Have you heard them chant? Have you heard them sing? Have you heard them screech (such as Maxine Watters and Elizabeth Warren - and many, many others).

But in matters of priority and arrangements of Parts, I decided to follow the advice of my old High School Chemistry teacher: “Let’s make life easy!” His example for plunging ahead with experiments, concoctions, elemental charts, mad scribblings on chalkboards, all while managing to avoid blowing us up, serves me here.

Thus, let’s make life easy. We’ll jump right in - onward and upward - as we slay the Left’s slimy political agendas; their warp of safety, truth, honor, merit, gender, sex, and society itself. America, itself. Dare I say, “Fuck these people”?… and just when I was laboring to be more decorous and was going to eschew using the word “Fuck.” Oopsie! But this ain’t no time to be singin’ “Zip-a-dee-doodah” or “What a Wonderful World.” The Left’s Mr. Bluebird took a shit on our collective shoulder… and keeps right on a’doin’ it. Fuck that.

I’m tired of that. How about you?

Just consider California: Whether Lefty Governors who can’t fill some reservoirs and hydrants, or discern a fish’s priority for life from a human being’s, to a Mayor who thinks a Ghanese Presidential ceremony has priority over her “own” city (it ain’t hers - it’s ours), to a Lesbian fire chief who wants more DIE… er, DEI (I can hear them singing upon dispatch to a fire, “Lesbian our way, ho ho, hey hey!”), we are in some deep waters here. Well, not California - they blew up four dams and drained all their water away. Ho ho. Hey hey.

In the coming days, we’ll get to some specifics. You’re going to enjoy it. Who knows? Maybe some former Dems are ready to tip into that dreaded zone: Independent. That’s where I reside. They may even begin to “get” Trump. I voted for him three times - and I know many here did. I know a lot of people who flipped and voted for him in 2020, and/or in 2024. I’m firmly convinced as he gets going (barring some unthinkables) a whole lot of other people are going to switch sides… and come aboard the Trump Train.

Stay tuned. Part I will tackle the second largest federal department of the federal government: The Department of Veterans Affairs. Just wait until you hear what they’re doing to our vets (no wonder recruitment and retention are down). I’m going to crack open two specific Ohio clinics: The Columbus (Ohio) Clinic (The Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center), as well as its subordinate clinic, the Zanesville Community-based Outpatient Clinic (Z-CBOC). Wokeism at these two clinics has done something amazing - and not in a good way.

Every time I hear a pundit or someone like VDH or Finnerty (Newsmax) or J. Watters say "the Democrats have learned nothing from the 2424 election” I can't help think how off-target they are: There is nothing for the Dems to learn; they are in the business of breaking America, in the sustenance of problems, in the building of new ones, and in the maintenance of their own power by disabling and disorganizing us, the good people of sound mental health. The Democrats are not interested in serving America's/Americans' best interests; they are not interested in "moving to the center," or making sincere efforts to understand the electorate and our issues. The Democrats are a domestic enemy, bent on destroying America and serving the NWO - the globalist agenda - that, and enriching themselves along the way, siphoning from various slush funds (the Ukraine/Russia war being the biggest, hence no effort on the part of the Left to end it).

Oh yeah - now that we’ve cracked a few eggs, my omelet is firmly cast: Fuck Wokeism.

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P.S. In terms of the profane and the profound, I like to consider myself a bit above Joe Rogan, and just a smidge under Dr. Victor Davis Hanson and Dr. Thomas Sowell. :^ )

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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY; ShuffleLabs, Inc., Virginia, more) as well as employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as TS contract work for clients (most notably BCP, Int., Alexandria, VA). Mr. Strain has passed three FBI background checks in association with his work. He is also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE: A PI’s Strange Bounces through a Surfeit of Eateries, Juke Joints, and Dark Doorways (2020) and A Bohemian in a Precarious Belfry - Vol. I: Poetry & Prose (2023). (Available on Amazon - Kindle and paperback). Prior, he authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, others).