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This isn’t politics

Its religion

America wasn’t established by Anglicans but Puritans, who won the Religious Civil War of 1861-65. Military history used to teach it was the English Civil War again with New England the Puritan Victor, the South the defeated Cavaliers, even the Irish were again involved as cannon fodder on both sides, with the Scot Presbyterians making their own cameo from West Virginia and Kentucky/Tennessee (mostly on their own side). There’s a lot of truth in this and it was likely without either race or slavery being the issue -although it was.

Same again Reconstruction, same again one of Reconstructions repeat performances bringing Democracy to Iraq ⁉️

⁉️ said the Iraqi

or Afghanistan 🤣🤡

ALL HAIL PALLAS ATHENA, THE MOST BLOODTHIRSTY OF ALL THE GODS !

This isn’t law, and it’s not politics. It’s religion.

Or Prohibition.

Or Civil Rights.

It’s the REVEREND Martin Luther King, not Doctor King, or Mr. King.

It’s the worst kind of religion, they don’t know they’re religious.

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the long warred's avatar

“America wasn’t established by Anglicans but Puritans” unlike Australia, for example.

Or really England since the Glorious Revolution.

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e.pierce's avatar

Wrong. Virginia (and the slightly larger Tidewater region), the most powerful state up to the US Civil War, was Anglican, and unlike the rest of the south in a number of ways. See Albion's Seed, Colin Woodard, Kevin Phillips, etc.

A number of credible social scientists have stated that "wokeism" is a dogmatic cult and a quasi religion, including black, liberal PhD Linguistics professor John McWhorter that wrote a book recently called WOKE RACISM.

One of the basic points McWhorter makes is that the civil rights and social justice movements have been taken over by social parasites, race grifters and posturers since the 1960s, as well as a vast surveillance state bureaucracy that was created by the 1960s civil rights laws to eradicate the vestiges of Jim Crow, which was a system of state-sponsored, actually racist, terrorism between the 1880s (when post-civil war reconstruction failed) and 1960.

My late father was born in Corsicana, Texas in 1926, into a family that had ancestors on both the Union/northern side and the Confederate/southern side of the civil war.

His first memory as a small child was seeing a lynching of a black man that was "on the wrong side of town after dark" that was murdered by being burned at the stake in the town square in front a compliant citizenry. He said the stench of burning human flesh was profoundly revolting.

One of the problems with the use of laws to try to reverse Jim Crow racism was that it created a "2nd Constitution" (and as noted, a surveillance and enforcement state) that was at odds with the original Constitution and that worked against the imperfect system of popular democracy, substituting elite, bureaucratic control.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/roots-partisan-divide/

imprimis. hillsdale. edu /roots-partisan-divide/

The anti-racism bureaucracy was increasingly aligned with what became postmodern-marxist "woke" ideology over time, providing funding for the education of the anti-racism work force and their careers, and various spin-offs that I call the race-grifter-industrial-complex (or woke-grifter-industrial-complex).

Economic neoliberalism and globalism was a huge boost to the race-woke-grifters, the professional-managerial class (PMC). Having stripped class conflict away from Marxism to create postmodern neo-marxism, the "woke", grifter "left" was then able to make itself useful to the globalists that were throwing the working classes under the bus by providing a cover of "anti-racist" virtue to the globalist corporate-state elites.

Musa Al-Gharbi, a black american from a family of military veterans and a Muslim convert and an excellent social scientist covers the origins of most or all of that stuff in explaining why upper middle class, college educated whites are more supportive of "wokeism" than working class non-whites, especially immigrants (who see the cruelty of things like Affirmative Action more clearly).

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/musa-al-gharbi-academic-truth-duncan-moench

www. tabletmag. com /sections/news/articles/musa-al-gharbi-academic-truth-duncan-moench

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How the social disease of postmodern neo-marxism flourished in the era of suburban consumer culture:

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/complex-relationship-between-marxism-wokeness/

newdiscourses. com /2020/07/complex-relationship-between-marxism-wokeness/

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e.pierce's avatar

Elite control of "wokeism"

The woke-grifter-industrial-complex:

$8 BILLION business

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement

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e.pierce's avatar

Elite control of "wokeism" and the Neo-Feudal schemes of the globalist elites:

https://joelkotkin.com/our-neo-feudal-future/

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