Wokeness is Fascism: Everything is about power and control
This is what a pep rally in a police state looks like: "Thanks to the dear leader for a bountiful potato harvest!" the proletariat chants, even as the people starve to death.
The many faces of wokeness still paint the same picture: Fascism at its worst, seeking power and control by the few over the many. (Photo Illustration: Kenny Everly/America’s Conservative Voice) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How do you know if you're living in a free society?
Here's a quick test: Are you allowed to say obviously true things in public? Or are you forced to lie? As George Orwell put it in "1984": "Freedom is the ability to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
But what if that freedom isn't granted? What if you're required to repeat things that you know aren't true? What if everyone who hears you perfectly well knows that you're lying, but they can't say so out loud? What if everyone is required to nod along in mock sincerity as if it's all completely real?
That's what a pep rally in a police state looks like: "Thanks to the dear leader for a bountiful potato harvest!" the proletariat chants, even as the people starve to death.
When they don’t want to hear what you have to say because it contradicts them, they silence you. Facebook and Twitter, acting as an unofficial arm of the Biden regime, permanently banned President Donald Trump from their platforms because ― well, for no other reason than he is Donald Trump. Supposedly he “incited insurrection” January 6, but he did no such thing. So they lied, shut him down, and that was that.
Nicki Minaj had to back out of the Video Music Awards earlier this month because she isn’t vaccinated and has no intention of being vaccinated. The annual event has a vaccine mandate and all attendees are required to show proof upon entrance. Social media turned on her immediately, users calling her out for being “misleading.” They also uploaded various memes on Twitter, poking fun at the chaos Minaj had created.
What is in store for Minaj is hard to say. She is a big name in the music industry and can likely survive the assaults on her character for daring to think for herself and not be vaccinated. But the fact that those who may have admired her turned on her in an instant is very troubling in this current atmosphere.
Then there is Mike Tunison, who was #MeToo’d in the early days of the movement. A published author, a writer and editor for The Washington Post, his name appeared along with about 70 others on a list purporting to name men in the media who abused women emotionally and, sometimes, physically. The list was one big lie, but because the Post and most other media had passed on the stories of Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, the paper’s ownership was in no mood to be vilified once again for failing to report such things.
So Tunison was summarily fired with not thought given to truth. Today, he is a janitor at a Dave & Buster’s in Alexandria, Virginia. He may never be able to write professionally again.
Pete Buttigieg was in the Democrat race for the presidential nomination last year. A few years before that, back when he was best known for being mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg made the point that "all lives matter."
He said it because it's true. All lives do matter, no matter what they look like. Every life has value ― period. That's the message of Christianity and the civilization that it spawned in the West. But in the modern Fascist Democrat Party, it can no longer be acknowledged. So Buttigieg had to apologize for his wrongthink.
Several Democrat candidates in 2020 had to apolgize for innocent remarks made years before that had since “offended” someone, including Beto O’Rourke, who made a joke about being on the campaign trailw while his wife stayed home with the kids. (Photo: Tana Guthrie/Daily Oklahoman) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beto O'Rourke, another Democrat candidate, was asked during the campaign about a harmless joke he once told about his wife staying home to raise their kids. O'Rourke fell apart completely. He groveled and whimpered and abased himself. He even expanded the self-criticism and apologized for how he was born.
This is what Maoist tribunals looked like during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. You can imagine Buttigieg and O’Rourke wearing paper dunce caps with "white privilege" scrawled across them as a warning to other would-be revolutionaries who fail to live up to the woke Fascist party line.
Pretty much everyone running for president as a Democrat in 2020 had to face inquisitions like this. They would write their confessions of guilt, bowing before their accusers on Twitter and begging for forgiveness. Kirsten Gillibrand read her confession on live television. Years ago, when she was running for a different office, Gillibrand once expressed sympathy for the idea of a closed border. Looking back, she was deeply ashamed. She could hardly believe she ever thought something so immoral.
Had we been able to depend on an honest media in 2020, we may have given pause to consideration of voting for whomever became the Democrat nominee ― including Joe Biden. But the media’s own collective wokeness prevented them pointing out the absurdities of those ridiculous “apologies.”
Jerry Seinfeld, one of the leading funny men in the modern era, has stated he will not play college campuses to avoid conflict with politically correct students.
Not only are students in America victims of radical identity group politics, they can’t take a joke. The latest trend in the world of academia is to issue “trigger warnings” to alert the new generation of students that they could suffer psychologically from a book, film, TV show ― or indeed a comedian who may offend their sensitivities to the protected groups: Women, gays, blacks, American Indians, even animals.
Colleges have long ago abandoned free speech and the airing of variant viewpoints. Students are no longer attending institutions of higher education. Instead young people, from kindergarten through bachelor’s degree programs, are unwittingly drawn into a cult they cannot escape. If one should dare break from the PC protocol, they are forced back into compliance or ejected from the group, like the Morlocks in The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
There's nothing liberal about this, obviously. It's purely authoritarian.
Using the rewritten false history of The 1619 Project and the teaching of the factless, baseless, useless Critical Race Theory in public schools and colleges, the Fascist Left hopes to erode the underpinnings of our constitutional government. In the age-old tactic of the Democrats known as “race baiting.” They pit one race against another, tell one side they are oppressed and the other side they are the oppressors and should be ashamed. Amazingly, education white people are buying into these lies.
Professor of Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center and Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Seigel has been a leading critic of the Biden administration and the media for fearmongering over the China virus despite continuing positive news. (Photo: Fox News screen capture) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The fearmongering of the China virus is another avenue the Fascists attempt to utilize power and control tactics. Exercising their lust for those two prizes, the more extreme Fascist governors continue to lock down their states, limit the number of customers allowed in small businesses and impose irrational mask mandates on school children, even knowing of the dangers of physical and mental trauma to them.
Continuing to insist on the dangers of the CCP virus, the federal government now wants nearly every U.S. citizen to be vaccinated before it will consider lifting restrictions, mandates and contradictory declarations from the various medical bureaucracies vying for supremacy in the fight against COVID. At a time when hospitalizations are down, statistics indicate that the vaccines wane in efficacy over about six months and that surviving the virus is a far more effective method of acquiring immunity, the approach is highly questionable and unscientific. Yet each and every day the plead for us to “follow the science.”
Wokeness is nothing less than Hitlerian Fascism. Power over ideas. In place of thinking, obedience. In return for dissent, punishment. Lying as official policy ― and not just conventional lying, the ordinary truth-shading of everyday life, but terrifying full-inversion lies. The exact opposite of the truth. The kind of lies that regimes that seek total control must tell in order to maintain their power.
The Biden White House engages in these types of lies frequently. Black is white, right is wrong, good is evil. Afghanistan was a success. The humongous social programs bill doesn’t cost anything. Straight out of Orwell. Straight out of hell.
In the end, the question is not whether Nicki Minaj will survive being canceled, whether Mike Tunison will ever get a job in journalism again or Jerry Seinfeld will relent and work a college campus. It is not whether candidates for public office will have to apologize for remarks made in their teens, nor is it about how serious the government actually takes its response to the CCP virus.
The question is whether you want to live in a country where people have such political power, where humor and dissent are criminal acts, where lying is the currency of public life, where authorities whose names you don't know can destroy you for thinking the wrong things.
The world has seen this before. It was once called Nazi Germany. It was once called the Soviet Union. It is currently called Venezuela. It is currently called Cuba.
Imagine if these new Nazis complete their takeover of the United States of America and have the U.S. military at their disposal to impose their will. That is a truly frightening thought.
Mike Nichols is a conservative, a patriot, U.S. Army veteran, a licensed professional counselor, political enthusiast, sports fan and writer living with his beautiful wife Liz in the Heartland. He is a regular contributor at has a regular blog at the GenZConservative news website and a Facebook presence at Americas Conservative Voice-Facebook.