A lot of discussion has been expended about exactly how real is the belief in the \u201cWoke\u201d religion.\u00a0 Many find it unimaginable that there could be so many people who actually believe in the nonsense being preached by the Left.\u00a0 Everything from the Gaia cult of humanity-as-a-disease to the Anti-White mania to the recent trans-fetishism bespeaks a lack of intelligence that is shocking in a country supposedly so steeped in higher education and civilized values.<\/p>\n
But what people forget is that in a country of 330 million people even a tenth of a percent is over three hundred thousand madmen.\u00a0 And that is more than enough to account for the street theater we have seen unleashed across the country last summer.\u00a0 Even a few thousand people would be enough as long as they are tolerated and even encouraged by the local officials.\u00a0 And because even if the maniacal believers only number in the thousands, the majority of the millennials have been indoctrinated in these things for decades.\u00a0 And even if they don\u2019t believe these things, they believe that everyone else believes these things because that is what the media and Hollywood and their teachers have told them.<\/p>\n
So, a small minority of true believers push the sheep in the direction they want.\u00a0 And if no one resists that is the direction the country will go.\u00a0 But what about the top of this pyramid?\u00a0 Do the shot-callers in Washington and New York believe in these things?\u00a0 I think the answer is certainly not.<\/p>\n
I think that is like asking if Joseph Stalin believed in Communism.\u00a0 I have been reading the Gulag Archipelago for the last month or so.\u00a0 I have just about finished the first volume.\u00a0 That\u2019s over six hundred pages of very dense text and numerous footnotes and so far, we haven\u2019t even arrived at the labor camps.\u00a0 The level of intentional cruelty and systematic destruction of every organization in the Soviet Union up to and including members of Stalin\u2019s own inner circle is mind-numbing.\u00a0 The lengths that he went to destroy any power other than his own is shocking.\u00a0 Solzhenitsyn estimates that he was responsible for the death of sixty million Soviet citizens through his purges and other attacks.\u00a0 There was even a belief in the Soviet Union that before joining the Bolshevik revolution Stalin was a member of the Tsar\u2019s secret police.<\/p>\n
I assume what Stalin believed in was Stalin.\u00a0 But what he saw was a population of people who did believe in Communism and he wielded that population as a tool to gain control over a giant empire.\u00a0 And once he had full control of that empire, he liquidated those true believers because they were a danger.\u00a0 He was like the phony televangelist who discovers that other people\u2019s faith can be a money-making machine.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t believe in God.\u00a0 He believes in himself and he sees other people\u2019s faith as a tool for making himself rich.\u00a0 Luckily for those faithful, the televangelist won\u2019t have to kill them off at the end of the latest crusade.<\/p>\n
But in the case of the woke faithful they may not be so lucky.\u00a0 Once they have performed their function, once they\u2019ve provided the Left with total control of the country, they may become inconvenient themselves.\u00a0 Stalin was lucky in that when he decided to purge people he didn\u2019t want around, he didn\u2019t have to bother with things like laws and judges and juries and courts.\u00a0 The various incarnations of the secret police that would one day be the KGB simply scooped up the victims and brought them to interrogation prisons and used physical and psychological torture until the victims were glad to sign confessions to whatever ridiculous charges had been concocted.\u00a0 Prison was a relief, even a bullet in the head was a release from a fate worse than death.<\/p>\n
Our FBI is trying out for the part of the KGB.\u00a0 Right now, they\u2019re a poor man\u2019s version.\u00a0 But it\u2019s easy to see the shape of what they would like to be.\u00a0 And it is the KGB, or in our case, the Justice Department that gets to play kingmaker.\u00a0 They can support or thwart a president.\u00a0 They can terrorize private individuals of all levels of importance and they can even take down political opponents with the help of a hand-picked federal judge who is willing to hand-waive a FISA warrant and refuse bail to a railroaded victim.<\/p>\n
The only question is who will be their boss?\u00a0 Will it be a Stalin or more of a committee?\u00a0 Will Barack Obama and the Clintons and the people who pull Joe Biden\u2019s strings sit down with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and the CEO of Goldman Sachs and Jeff Bezos and decide how we will be fed into the American Gulag?\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t surprise me a bit.\u00a0 And to get back to the original question, no, none of those people believe in any of this woke crap in the least.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a hell of a way to conquer an empire.\u00a0 They learned it from Uncle Joe Stalin, the guy who wrote the book.<\/p>\n