Waking Up from Woke, or Does the Nightmare Continue? By James Reed

Recently Elon Musk made another punchy tweet where he said, responding to a Free Press.com that people are waking up from woke, or what used to be called political correctness. The context is upon the Hamas massacres and the aftermath. The idea is that this is all going to kick onto fundamental political change. But, looked at from the perspective of sociology, this is most unlikely in the short term, as the Left has a fundamental death grip upon Western society, and as was seen in the Voice referendum, the globalist corporates are firmly in line with woke agendas so long as these serve the interests of global capital. With the Voice referendum we were lucky, but the early stages did not look good for the No side, and inadequacies in the Yes campaign led to defeat. But, it could have been different, and next time, just like with the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the elites will be more careful.

So, while there is clear evidence of cracks appearing in the citadel of Leftism, there is still a long and hard battle ahead.

 https://www.thefp.com/p/waking-up-from-woke-seneca-scott-migrant-crisis

“A black activist fights the progressivism he says is destroying his city. Left-wing Jews say “screw the allyship” after seeing fellow progressives cheer Hamas’s pogrom. Immigrant New Yorkers oppose the new migrants coming to New York “with the expectation they’re going to be taken care of.”

Today in The Free Press, three stories paint a picture of a larger political shift happening in America.

It is sometimes said of the pandemic that it accelerated preexisting trends: we were already living online more and more, reinventing the traditional 9 to 5, automating ever larger parts of the economy, and abandoning shopping malls. And the lockdowns simply turbocharged it all.

Might recent weeks be having a similar effect on our politics? Could outrage at the horrifying events in Israel, the global explosion of antisemitism, and the Hamas apologism on campuses and in newsrooms, crystallize into a big political upheaval? 

Yesterday, Elon Musk, responding to a Free Press story on X, said that “people are waking up from woke.” Last week, a similar argument was made by Konstantin Kisin in our pages with his essay “The Day the Delusions Died.” He wrote that “many people woke up on October 7 sympathetic to parts of woke ideology and went to bed that evening questioning how they had signed on to a worldview that had nothing to say about the mass rape and murder of innocent people by terrorists.” 

One person who has felt disenfranchised from the left for years is Seneca Scott, a black Oakland activist fighting for the future of his city. Scott is a former progressive who used to support defunding the police. But then he changed his mind. In 2020, “I realized how deep the damage was,” Scott tells David Josef Volodzko in a profile for The Free Press. Oakland’s leaders, “the people we had put in place . . . were just complete frauds.” Now Scott says he’s aiming to start a revolution in his city that will spread across the country.”