I like Bernie. He’s a populist. I don’t agree with his solutions [but] the biggest part [of politics] is identifying the problem and I think Bernie’s identified the problem. 

– Steve Bannon, Real Time with Bill Maher 

Partisanship, and, by extension, the culture war constantly being stoked by “Wokeism”, is largely an illusion carefully constructed by what based entrepreneur Darren Beattie calls Globalist American Empire (GAE i.e. Chinese Communist Party + Drag Queens) in order keep you focused on shiny, vague non-issues (transgender rights, reparations for slavery that ended 150 years ago, white supremacy, gender-neutral Mr. Potato Head, how many masks to wear/not wear, etc.) and distracted from the fact that both parties are working hand-in-glove (at the behest of our corrupt, contemptible ruling class elites) to cut you off at the knees economically while silencing you if you just so happen to ever notice them doing it. 

That’s right. The culture war is really just snobbish class warfare dressed up in weird new clothes that nobody wants. It’s a small faction of shrill elites scoffing at everyone they deem to be beneath them. 

The scenario we face invokes a scene in John McTiernan’s 1999 The Thomas Crown Affair remake in which insurance investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) shuts down New York City Police Detective Michael McCann (Denis Leary) after he suggests that their case is open and shut since the would-be thieves were intercepted and arrested at the scene of the Metropolitan Museum of Art crime scene. Catherine, suspecting that the ‘failed’ heist was merely a red herring for a separate theft that occurred simultaneously, and that the whole ordeal was secretly masterminded and executed by playboy billionaire Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan), asks McCann:  

What makes you think they failed? Maybe it was a successful robbery. Maybe they were setup to fail. Diversion. Make a lot of noise over there so over here in this room you can take a hundred million off the wall and waltz right out the front door. Oh, that’s good.

In other words, “The Great Awokening” (as coined by The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology fellow and “Wokeness Studies” scholar Zach Goldberg) that has occurred over the past decade is anything but a coincidence. It was and continues to be orchestrated and enforced with increasing aggressiveness by a uniparty establishment that clobbers us with an ever-growing load of supposedly “new” “hot button” issue like “critical race theory” as it passes bills that propagate the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. 

What is this “critical race theory” that wants us to avoid talking about solvable economic problems and how wealth is distributed in this country? As Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher F. Rufo defines it in his Critical Race Theory Briefing Book:

Critical race theory is an academic discipline that holds that the United States is a nation founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these forces are still at the root of our society. Critical race theorists believe that American institutions, such as the Constitution and legal system, preach freedom and equality, but are mere ‘camouflages’ for naked racial domination. They believe that racism is a constant, universal condition: it simply becomes more subtle, sophisticated, and insidious over the course of history. In simple terms, critical race theory reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, replacing the class categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of White and Black. But the basic conclusion is the same: in order to liberate man, society must be fundamentally transformed through moral, economic, and political revolution.

If you’ve been paying even the slightest iota of attention to the culture war of the last decade, all of this sounds, well, awfully familiar. Why? Because it is. This moronic, divisive claptrap used to also be called (and is also still known as) “Cultural Marxism.” In recent years, this civilization-collapsing ideology has also gone by “intersectionality” (which, of course, has either birthed or injected new life into stupid and/or recycled concepts like “whiteness,” “white privilege,” “male privilege,” “oppressor/oppressed,”  “systemic racism,” “diversity,” “inclusion,” equity,” etc.), “political correctness,” (the issue that inspired such an intense backlash that it put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016) and, of course, to bring us back full circle, “wokeism” (the secular religion held by our annoying, corrupt, elitist ruling class, politically correct intersectional cultural marxist gobbledygook with an even larger encyclopedia of bullshit terms like “antiracism”, “toxic masculinity,” “cultural appropriation,” and “white fragility”). 

The big picture here is that while the players (in this case, the language) of these “controversial” issues may change, the game remains the exact friggin’ same. The status quo holds because the corrupt oligarchy responsible for turning America into a failed state wants it to. Given their deeply authoritarian nature, plus the fact that they’re making more money on the way down than they did on the way up, this is hardly shocking.  

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. 

Using the aftermath of the 2016 election to frame and contextualize the phenomenon of ruling class antipopulists projecting their own failures onto the little guy, author Michael Lind exposes the big lie behind their ‘woke’ bait-and-switch scare tactics in The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite:

The Russia Scare story is only one of the two narratives that embattled members of the Western establishment [use] to explain the rise of transatlantic populism in a way that demonizes populist voters and politicians. The narrative of the post-2016 Brown Scare might also be called the Weimar Republic scenario. In this account, contemporary citizens in Europe and North America who voted for Brexit, Trump, and other populist causes are just like the voters who brought Hitler and his National Socialist Party to power in Germany in 1933. [However,] good thriller fiction is not necessarily good history. Far from being antiestablishment populists, opposed by most of the college-educated, prosperous elites of their nations, Mussolini and Hitler enjoyed substantial support from military, bureaucratic, and business elites in Italy and Germany who feared the working class and viewed fascism as a bulwark against communism, socialism, and liberal democracy. The myth that fascism was brought to power by less-educated members of the working class is nevertheless useful for managerial elites in Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin as they seek to delegitimize populist challenges to their political, economic, and cultural hegemony.

“Critical Class Theory” is our blanket term for this farce, as the most privileged members of society dump on the idea of “noblesse oblige” and avoid ever taking personal responsibility for their failures in the face of every conceivable fact in front of them. It’s an exercise in divide-and-conquer politics that gets increasingly obvious and pathetic with each passing day. Our supposedly enlightened elites think quite highly of themselves, but to anyone with eyes and ears, they’re not even as slick as Thomas Crown’s last bowel movement. 

On the so-called “Right”, this con manifests itself in the doublespeak they practice as they pay lip service to decrying “Woke Leftism” (and its damaging effects on the working and middle class). At the same time, they are working overtime to enrich woke useful idiots at the direction of their globalist-corporatist multinational CEO puppetmasters (who, by the way, hate them and most Americans), eagerly delivering them corporate welfare and tax cuts even as said corporations bail on American citizens at a rapid pace. 

On the so-called “Left”, this con manifests itself in the total disappearance of class from the conversation altogether in favor of a religious zealot level of devotion to wokeness. As Thomas Frank points out in The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism:

All genuine populist movements have aimed to bring working people together across barriers of race, religion, and ethnicity in order to reform capitalism. This is what defines the species; indeed, this has been one of the traditional objective of left-wing movements since the nineteenth-century. The prophets of reproach who make up the modern Left aren’t particularly interested in that, however. Once you start looking for this erasure-for this peculiar lacuna in the worldview of a certain type of liberal, you notice it everywhere. Social class is the glaring, zillion-watt absence, for example, in those anti-Trump yard signs that have become so popular in nice suburban neighborhoods, that strain for inclusiveness- ‘In this house, we believe: Black lives matter/Women’s rights are human rights/No human is illegal/Science is real /Love is love/And kindness is everything’-but that say nothing about the right to organize or to earn a living wage.

With each and every passing day, the globalist Revolt of the Elites that the late Christopher Lasch predicted nearly three decades ago becomes increasingly embarrassing and insufferable. How bad is it? It’s so bad that British Author Douglas Murray, in his sincere wish that America somehow improves, recently told Tucker Carlson that even “French academics are saying ‘We can’t allow this American import in.’ It’s evangelical stupidity [and] it’s terrible.” 

You read that right. Even the hoity-toity croissant jockeys in the French Academy are getting too old for this shit. 

Despite what the talking heads on cable news tell you, the real framing that matters today is not, in fact, “Left versus Right,” or  “Liberals versus Conservatives,” or even “Democrats versus Republicans.” It’s not even “Capitalism versus Socialism” (quadruple yawn). It is “Populists versus Elitists,” or “Populist Left/Right versus Establishment Left/Right.” “Nationalists versus Globalists?” Even warmer. 

The solution to fighting back against the critical class theory that the critical race theory crowd wants you to be too scared to bring up is both simple and incredibly difficult to address at the same time. In theory, it shouldn’t be hard for the populists on the left and the right to work together to take back the country from the most spoiled, arrogant, smug, pompous, and delusional dimwits in American history. The execution, however, will not be easy.  The woke elitists who rule our country’s institutions, as well as their fake opponents, will do everything in their power to prevent the aforementioned partnership from ever occurring (hence, increasingly insane woke nonsense getting thrown at us on a daily basis). The “how” here is what’s worth pondering.  

So, until someone figures that one out, yeah, let’s definitely defund critical race theory.