Woke version 1 - Ep 26-323

You can see it everywhere. DEI is getting dismantled. The language is changing. Corporations that once couldn't get through a board meeting without somebody mentioning diversity, equity and inclusion are suddenly discovering the timeless beauty of merit. And now we have Democrats talking about something called “Woke One.” Woke One. I love that. It sounds like a software release. Apparently Woke One was the beta version. There were some bugs. A few systems crashed. The police department stopped functioning. People discovered that men and women were somehow both the same and different depending upon which sentence you were constructing. Universities became ideological pressure cookers. Americans were instructed to evaluate virtually everything through the lens of race, gender and identity. And then there was the small matter of telling people that America itself was fundamentally rotten. But don't worry. That was Woke One. We're moving on. I have a question: How many times can you get woke? Because that's the part I don't buy. I don't think Democrats are ushering in a new woke. I think they're waking up from woke. And there's a difference. A very important difference. Because when you say “Woke One,” you are trying to make history sound like software. You are suggesting that there was an earlier version, perhaps with some excesses, and now the sophisticated people have moved on to a newer, improved operating system. Woke 2.0. Same ideology. New packaging. Maybe fewer pronouns in the installation instructions. But that's not what I think is happening. I think somebody finally pulled the fire alarm. And the wake-up call came from two directions. First, Democrats began destroying themselves. They took ideas that might have started with something relatively ordinary, like treating people fairly, and pushed them into increasingly bizarre territory. They turned identity into politics. They turned politics into morality. They turned disagreement into evidence of moral deficiency. And eventually they reached the point where ordinary Americans began looking at the Democratic Party and saying, essentially: What the hell happened to you people? Kevin Jackson has been called, the "white-collar" Joe Rogan. Given their similar backgrounds in TV, comedy, and martial arts, it's easy to see why people enjoy Kevin's show so much. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.