{"id":36815,"date":"2026-05-06T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=36815"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:51:07","slug":"peak-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/peak-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We seemed to have passed through what can be described as \u201cmaximum wokeness.\u201d\u00a0 Sometime after 2020 all of the stupidest delusions about race and sex reached their apex.\u00a0 Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, LGBTQ madness like trans-everything and radical feminism like #metoo were all reaching a high tide.\u00a0 Insanity was piled on insanity and all the stupidest beliefs ran amok.\u00a0 People were fired and jailed and even killed during cancellations, purges and outright rioting.<\/p>\n<p>But since 2025 many of these beliefs have been shown to be absurd or even dangerous and fewer and fewer people will admit to believing in these things.\u00a0 Sure, in places like California, New York and Minnesota the lunatics are too numerous and too crazy to come to their senses but in many other jurisdictions the folly of what had been going on finally woke up enough people to the madness that things have been reversed to a large extent.\u00a0 And with Trump in the White House and a conservative Supreme Court many of the worst excesses are being swept away.\u00a0 Even old liberal attacks on constitutional practices, like racial gerrymandering of political districts are being overruled and eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>With all that said serious damage has been done to a couple of generations of young men in this country who have been deprived of the career opportunities that were instead reserved for women and foreigners.\u00a0 And this damage cannot be easily repaired.\u00a0 If a man doesn\u2019t have a stable, well-paid job how is he supposed to attract a wife and afford to raise a family?\u00a0 And if he can\u2019t do that then his line ends with him.\u00a0 Multiply this by the millions and you\u2019re looking at the cancelling out of America.<\/p>\n<p>Currently you hear about young men avoiding college and professional schools and instead heading into the construction and other trades like welding and mechanics.\u00a0 And this may be the only alternative to allow a generation of young men to earn a living.\u00a0 Now, this may be necessary but it seems like a step backward for all the families who scrimped and saved to help their kids to become doctors and lawyers and engineers.\u00a0 Now their grandchildren are back in the blue-collar world that they came from.\u00a0 But then again maybe it makes more sense to take the jobs that do exist and strive to start your own business and not be beholden to corporations that despise you.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019ve got grandchildren in college and even one graduating soon.\u00a0 And they are going to have to navigate these same obstacles.\u00a0 And it\u2019s very difficult to know what to tell them.\u00a0 But I know what\u2019s most important.\u00a0 I need to do whatever I can to support them and encourage them to strive to succeed in whatever they find available to them to earn a living and raise a family.\u00a0 Because, in all honesty, those are the only things that count in this world.\u00a0 All the other nonsense about status and prestige is just that; nonsense.\u00a0 The people you interact with are the essence of what we call human life.\u00a0 And as long as they can live a happy life with them, they are rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seemed to have passed through what can be described as \u201cmaximum wokeness.\u201d\u00a0 Sometime after 2020 all of the stupidest delusions about race and sex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5203,2581,4138],"class_list":["post-36815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-post-woke","tag-thriving-in-the-era-of-the-woke-revolt","tag-woke-corporations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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