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I read most of this article<\/a>.\u00a0 It was long and boring and loaded with leftist jargon related to the constant in-fighting and bickering that causes organizations like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, BLM and many others to spend all their time fighting their management over perceived racial and gender slights instead of doing their work.<\/p>\n

That the institute has spent the course of the Biden administration paralyzed makes it typical of not just the abortion rights community \u2014 Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and other reproductive health organizations had similarly been locked in knock-down, drag-out fights between competing factions of their organizations, most often breaking down along staff-versus-management lines. It\u2019s also true of the progressive advocacy space across the board, which has, more or less, effectively ceased to function. The Sierra Club, Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, the Movement for Black Lives, Human Rights Campaign, Time\u2019s Up, the Sunrise Movement, and many other organizations have seen wrenching and debilitating turmoil in the past couple years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is familiar to anyone who has worked at one of these woke corporations that spends all its time henpecking its employees about diversity, equity and inclusion.\u00a0 All of the day is spent in meetings with aggrieved groups that want to litigate their grievances with the company instead of doing their work.<\/p>\n

But think about how much worse it must be in companies where their stock in trade is leftist outrage like Planned Parenthood.\u00a0 And what a delicious paradox.\u00a0 They can’t take advantage of the Biden Administration to inflict even more wokism because they are busy torturing their management about their own grievances.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quote from a director of one of these lefty organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest with you, this is the biggest problem on the left over the last six years,\u201d one concluded. \u201cThis is so big. And it\u2019s like abuse in the family \u2014 it\u2019s the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. And you have to be super sensitive about who the messengers are.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>And then, sometime in the summer, the forward momentum stalled, and many of the progressive gains lapsed or were reversed. Instead of fueling a groundswell of public support to reinvigorate the party\u2019s ambitious agenda, most of the foundation-backed organizations that make up the backbone of the party\u2019s ideological infrastructure were still spending their time locked in virtual retreats, Slack wars, and healing sessions, grappling with tensions over hierarchy, patriarchy, race, gender, and power.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSo much energy has been devoted to the internal strife and internal bullshit that it\u2019s had a real impact on the ability for groups to deliver.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMy last nine months, I was spending 90 to 95 percent of my time on internal strife. Whereas [before] that would have been 25-30 percent tops,\u201d the former executive director said. He added that the same portion of his deputies\u2019 time was similarly spent on internal reckonings.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah, the delicious schadenfreude.\u00a0 Thinking about the executives at these woke companies being harangued and accused of not being woke enough by their protected minorities is hilarious.\u00a0 That is the Achilles Heel of these companies.\u00a0 They are filled up with nuts.\u00a0 And now that they’ve been inspired by the George Floyd revolution they can’t be controlled by their employers.\u00a0 Hopefully they’ll burn their companies down and then end up unemployed, starving and miserable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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