PROgressives are “woke” — i.e., awake, alert and ready and aware of injustices that they seek to first identify and then rectify and, yes, that includes climate change and damage to our shared environment along with other issues of personal freedom for individuals over corporations and social justice and equality of opportunity for everyone. Being “woke” is to be inclusive, expansive and protective — seeing the “big picture” and acting on it.
Conservatives proudly proclaim themselves the opposite of “woke” — i.e., COMATOSE. Being comatose is to be blind to any experience or perspective other than one’s own very narrow personal existence, hating anyone who is different.
Those who ridicule being awake, alert and ready apparently prefer to be in a drunken stupor of hate-infused intoxication and a world of insecure, conspiratorial hallucinations and (their term) “alternative facts,” rather than the real world-reality of being awake, alert and ready.
To be “woke” is a badge of honor. Those who try turn such beautiful aspirations into something ugly say more about themselves than they do about those they unsuccessfully seek to denigrate.
Florida Governor Ron DeSatan picked a fight with a Disney mouse, lost a billion dollar expansion along with several thousand good-paying jobs that will instead go to Gavin Newsom’s “woke” California. We Californians (along with our Governor, Gavin Newsom), thank Florida for helping move our state ever closer to becoming the fourth largest economy in the entire world (currently number five) — larger than most other nations.
Ron DeSatan’s “war on woke” will work out for him just about as well as fellow tyrant Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is working out for him.
PROgressives are “woke” — i.e., awake, alert and ready and aware of injustices that they seek to first identify and then rectify and, yes, that includes climate change and damage to our shared environment along with other issues of personal freedom for individuals over corporations and social justice and equality of opportunity for everyone. Being “woke” is to be inclusive, expansive and protective — seeing the “big picture” and acting on it.
Conservatives proudly proclaim themselves the opposite of “woke” — i.e., COMATOSE. Being comatose is to be blind to any experience or perspective other than one’s own very narrow personal existence, hating anyone who is different.
Those who ridicule being awake, alert and ready apparently prefer to be in a drunken stupor of hate-infused intoxication and a world of insecure, conspiratorial hallucinations and (their term) “alternative facts,” rather than the real world-reality of being awake, alert and ready.
To be “woke” is a badge of honor. Those who try turn such beautiful aspirations into something ugly say more about themselves than they do about those they unsuccessfully seek to denigrate.
Florida Governor Ron DeSatan picked a fight with a Disney mouse, lost a billion dollar expansion along with several thousand good-paying jobs that will instead go to Gavin Newsom’s “woke” California. We Californians (along with our Governor, Gavin Newsom), thank Florida for helping move our state ever closer to becoming the fourth largest economy in the entire world (currently number five) — larger than most other nations.
Ron DeSatan’s “war on woke” will work out for him just about as well as fellow tyrant Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is working out for him.