Woke Hits the Wall. Part Four Victor Davis Hanson
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Another tenet of woke was a veritable war on gas and oil. Note the same serial ironic theme: if Biden inherited a calm border, he had the luxury or rather the margin of error to demagogue it, destroy it, and not be swamped by illegals—for a while.
It was also easy to call for defunding the police and the BLM agenda, as long as such megaphones were safe—and they were until the full effect of their nihilism eventually rooted them out.
And so too it was easy to war on fossil fuels when Trump’s full-production agenda had given an incoming Biden seemingly limitless gasoline and natural gas at cheap prices, with a full strategic petroleum reserve.
But as in the case of illegal immigration and crime, Biden’s rhetoric of banning fossil fuels finally caught up with him. Grinding down the fracking industry, canceling and restricting federal energy leases, stopping pipelines, and freezing vast oilfields finally gave Biden what he wanted and most feared: record-high gas prices and an irate public that blamed him for its misery.
The iconic, jump-the-shark moment of his failed fossil fuels campaign was when Biden began draining the strategic petroleum reserve right before the 2022 midterms.
Biden’s woke subtext went something like this: “Because we curtailed production of our own horrific fossil fuels, we want to get our hands on more of the awful stuff by either draining what the evil Trump had stockpiled for us, or begging the illiberal Saudis, Venezuelans, and Iranians to produce the icky goo that we will not.”
What, then, is Biden’s energy policy? It is to virtue signal greenness and to damn the Saudis, the oil companies, and the MAGA Winnebago and snow-mobile crowd for two-year intervals.
And then before a national or midterm election, it is to turn on the oil spigots in order to get gasoline prices down before the mail-in-voting begins, by begging the now good Saudis and the noble Venezuelans and our partners the Iranians, draining the last drop out of the strategic petroleum reserve, and symbolically opening a new federal oil tract for leasing that likely has little oil beneath it.
The transgender community convinced America that sexual dysphoria did not just merely affect the traditional, less-than-one percent of the population, but was socially constructed, not biologically determined, and thus quite large. And if the twenties-somethings did not have their civil rights moment, their Vietnam War, their hippy world, the trans movement offered them at least a facsimile of “protest” and “social justice.”
And the result? The sickening violence of a recent and now deceased trans shooter who murdered young children in Knoxville, who wrote a manifesto outlying the agenda of such violence.
Yet the mass murderer was contextualized by the Left as a victim’s last cry-of-the-heart anguish. And so, to this day, the manifesto is strangely still under wraps, in a way not true of other such manifestos of egocentric mass killers.
As for the participation of biological males in women’s sports, the feminist Left is fine with this new social justice frontier. The old leftwing concern for the “children” was out-woke by allowing trans biological males to share showers and locker rooms with adolescent girls.
Yet, the effort to create a special “trans” category of sporting events found zero takers: too few endorsement opportunities, too little media exposure, and too little shock value. And when transgender men transition, why do they not compete in and win men’s sporting events, since according to trans gospel there is no difference at all between a transgendered man and a biological man? And yet do trans-men ever win major male competitions? And if not, why not?
The list of woke grifts, cons, paradoxes, hypocrites, tragic ironies—and civilization nihilism—could be easily expanded, as woke is revealed as contrary to nature, nihilist, racist, an utter con, and fated to disappear.
Why? Is it because the majority of Americans have always opposed open borders, “anti-racist” racism, the green new destructive deal, and the trans hysteria?
Unfortunately, not at all. Public opinion does not matter much to the leftist activists.
Rather, woke imploded because it was always destined to devour those who created it. And when it finally did just that, woke blew up, not with a bang but with a leftist whimper that it should never have applied to those who birthed it.
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