And at times in our nation's past assorted what became known as “cultural identities” were kept somewhat in both perspective and in-check when weighing the commonalities which helped to unite our multitudes together against that which separated and divided folks of different backgrounds into what has now morphed into compartmentalized sub-categories. And it's those sub-categories that have not only become prevalent in today's America... what with the words “cultural identity” taking over the public discourse...leaving what really defines one as being an “American” to be used instead to help not only divide the very “fabric” that encompasses the entirety of what is the collective sum of “We the People,” but to shame, mock, and accuse our country of being a “racist nation” if we don't buy into the liberal rhetoric known as DEI...“diversity, equity,” and “inclusion.”
Simply, what the leftists forget is that, at times, the sum of the whole of “American culture” is not always derived by its individual nor unique components, for such components do tend to be be added or removed when the political parties in control of power switch hands. However, what does make we “Americans” and our “culture” unique is not about the names we call ourselves nor is about TV shows watched, games played, books read, foods eaten, individual religious beliefs held or not held, or which poliical party one belongs to, but it is about that which collectively binds us together as “We the People” while encompassing our individual similarities yet understanding our multitude of individual differences.
And here I start with whom I consider to be the antithesis of what is not only tried and true “American culture” but “American exceptionalism” as well. Simply, “ground zero” from which began the corruption of said “American culture,” as well as the man who initiated and then implemented the far left turn into the cultural and moral ludicrousness that has overtaken our nation. And he did so, first by his directly stirring the pot of racial discontentment while adding into it what were decidedly adversarial social and moral narratives, and then by his hoping to at least get close to finishing the job he started courtesy of the shell of a man that is Joe Biden. But now this same man has tasked his newest puppet Kamala Harris with finishing the job Biden failed to do...while keeping his fingers crossed.
And so now as the annals of “American cultural history” continues to be written...history that must be based upon fact not upon how one man wants or doesn't want it to be written...misrepresentations still abound as to what really is meant by “American culture.”
America...“the land of the free and the home of the brave” has now, at least in the political realm, become a land where a “placeholder president” gets away with ruling by executive order while his political opponents cower in fear of being called “racists”...“racists” in the broadest and most twisted sense of the word...as in those being perceived to be driven by narrow-minded bigotry of anything proposed by or initiated by the left.
America...a once true melting pot of
blended races and cultures is now anything but as the voices of
certain minorities seem to override the majority and dominate both
common sense and the political discourse, while at the same time
seeing these same folks completely separating themselves from what
was once viewed as the sum of American culture. And this in turn has
now filtered down into becoming broad based cultural biases, biases
not without merit, yet biases having little or nothing to do with
race or ethnicity per se, while having everything to do with
politically driven anti-American ideologies.
And what better way to describe such anti-American ideologies than with the two words “cancel culture”...the movement trying to erase and rewrite American history itself...as if tearing down statutes, removing paintings, and other such foibles changes actual history...it emphatically does not and will not for what was...was...period. Now going against not only our American way of life and what is basically western prevailing societal norms, values, and ethics, the adherents of this ideology, for the most part, are black malcontents who thinks today's white folks owe them something for their ancestors past; are spoiled rich white kids with too much time and money on their hands; or are those liberal sorts who love using race and misplaced sensibilities to force their opponents into both political and cultural submission.
But what exactly is this somewhat new ideology known as “woke culture?” It simply is the now favored media description du jour of those progressive sorts who have suddenly and oh so miraculously “woken up”...as in become “aware”...of what they perceive to be not only ongoing unaddressed racial discrimination issues but other assorted social injustices here in the U.S. as well, including the standard plethora of leftist issues...climate change, abortion, inclusion, fossil fuels, illegals, etc...that are both the hallmark and calling card of those out to destroy our beloved America.
Simply, the joint ideologies...the joint weapons of cultural war...of both “cancel culture” and “woke culture”...has not only divided our country into warring political camps, but into actual race-bating camps as well...camps that do not even bother to hide the fact that their goal is to openly pit black folks against white folks, and law and order folks against a criminal element now being given free reign to run amok by an administration run amok itself. And while “cancel culture's” and “woke culture's” adherents claim that what they do is based upon their first amendment right to free speech, their (supposed) striving for racial equality, and their right to the “pursuit of happiness,” they in turn willingly and knowingly deny those very same rights to those of us who oppose them.
Simply, only time and the maddening futility of still non-existent
events will determine whether things, no matter the label du jour
attached to them, will change our country's current status quo unless
“We the People” rise up to claim the ultimate sort after
prize...as in the America we remember and long for...as in “the
land of the free and the home of the brave,” a land where "liberty and justice for all" is the true order of the day.
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