An unlikely voice has spoken out against the woke mob mentality overtaking this country – James Carville.
The self-indulgent among the younger crowd, those whose frame of reference extends only to their memories from childhood and forward, might not recognize Carville’s name.
But perhaps they have heard of former president Bill Clinton, the man Carville got elected, twice. Carville once was the guru of the Democratic party.
He was a particularly unattractive man physically, once described as looking like the love child resulting from the sex scene in the movie “Deliverance,” a disturbing image on many levels.
Regardless, Carville knows politics and he skews hard left ideologically. Yet even Carville is concerned about his party and it’s full-on embrace of the radical religion of wokeism.
Think of wokeism as the modern equivalent of the Salem witch trials. The woke gang is a crazed, self-righteous minority that, under the guise of pursuing equality, operates as judge, jury and executioner.
It is a definitive example of mob mentality, where even those within the crowd who disagree to some extent are afraid to speak up lest they turn the mob’s attention on them. Those on the outside are even more timid to challenge the mob agenda.
That was Carville’s message in a recent interview with Vox, an ironic venue considering Vox is Latin for voice, but all voices on Vox seem to speak with a left-leaning accent.
That Carville would use this digital soap box to call out a movement that Vox denizens likely would agree with, at least to some degree, is telling.
Said Carville: “Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It’s hard to talk to anybody today – and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party – who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud.”
The fear is one of retribution, albeit most often not physical violence. The threat from the cancel culture is ostracism both online and in professional life. It can put a former insider on the outside looking in; a formerly successful business person in the welfare line.
Even major corporations are quick these days to toe the woke line in commenting for public consumption lest they become victims of campaigns to turn their bottom lines red. The thinking seems to be, go ahead and speak out against the majority because those milquetoast types lack either the guts or the motivation – or both – to fight back.
This doesn’t mean violence is not a weapon, too, of the woke crowd. “Mostly peaceful” demonstrations that turn violent and destructive are the hammer that gives implied threat to the more pedestrian campaigns to discredit and shame on social media or in the lamestream news outlets.
So, cowed by fear, what likely is a majority – even among Democrats – that does not endorse full-blown socialism and blatant racism for the avowed purpose of reversing past racism – sits silent while the mob has the floor.
This is not a new concept. Then-president Richard Nixon referred to the “Silent Majority” in a televised address in 1969, calling on them to support him against protests of the time both racial and against the Vietnam War, as well as to back him as an opponent to the overall rise of the so-called counterculture.
Donald Trump tapped into that silent majority sentiment, won one term as president and arguably was re-elected if the voting fraud could have been factored out of the equation.
Already Trump, admittedly not a young man, is making overtures of running again in 2024. If he is still around, and hale and hearty at that time, and if wokeism continues to gain speed flying in the face of the majority of this country’s citizens, it’s going to take exponentially greater voter misconduct to beat back Trump in 2024 than it did in 2020.
Carville realizes that and he’s trying to get his party’s attention.
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