Trump, yes...the puppet masters manipulating his strings are not in plain sight, however. They're using Trump and the feckless Republicans in power to take down the U.S. position in the world...and it's working at an alarmjng rate.
The puppet masters manipulating the strings have never been in plain sight, but they've always been manipulating the puppets. They didn't even want Trump in office because he goes off script so often. For all of his "America first" bluster on the campaign trail, Trump's doing exactly what every other deep state puppet before him has done; funding a war and a genocide on Israel's behalf, increasing the wealth of the uber-wealthy even more, and doing all of this by increasing the financial burden of the poor and middle class.
Who are 'they'? I have no skin in the game for either U.S. political party. I'm merely using the definition of the word woke...that is until the right weaponized it and made it the apparent root of all evil (the carrot on the string so to speak to hide the real corruption and takeover intent).
Look, look over here at the illegal aliens stealing your jobs (you know, those low wage jobs Americans don't want anyway) the trans.....oh the scary trans whom want to convert your children....they want to perform sex changes on your children in public schools....oh the furry litter boxes in schools that someone's barber's daughter's 3rd cousin said exists in their local school and is coming to yours if you vote for Democrats.......
Those crazy beliefs can somehow be overcome and Republicans can be perceived as credible candidates but Dems can't overcome woke????
"They" are the Dems. They're the ones who claim to care about equality, but when it comes right down to it, they weaponized "woke" as much as anybody. Instead of focusing on policies such as universal health care, a living wage, and ending the wars, they decided to embrace Dick Cheney's brand of neoconservatism instead. As such, all of the disaffected neocons who hated Trump and MAGA left the Republican Party and were welcomed with open arms into the Democratic Party among the establishment elite.
In their rebrand, it was cool to be pro-war, anti-living wage, and anti-universal healthcare, so long as you were "woke." It was a cynical ploy, but they didn't care. Even the CIA and the military would highlight how "cool" it was to be part of their organization because gays, women, people of color, trans people, and other diverse groups were now part of these once exclusive institutions. It didn't make much sense, of course, but what they appeared to be doing here is trying to make imperialism seem palatable to the public.
As far as trans kids are concerned, you don't even need Republicans to talk about them because Dems did enough of that themselves. You couldn't get them to sign on to ending the wars, supporting a living wage, and supporting universal healthcare, but they were certainly all on board for gender affirming care for children. As soon as I heard that, it immediately clicked when Snarky said this was likely an intel psy-op. Even the biggest progressive lgbtq+ ally is likely going to have some reservations with that, to say the least. But again, thanks to woke 1.0, those folks are called transphobes for having concerns about child genital reassignment surgery and puberty blockers. Go figure.
As for illegal aliens, I think it's disgraceful how both parties treat them. I do believe every country needs secure borders, and the Dems shouldn't have allowed millions of people to enter here illegally. On the other hand, Republicans shouldn't make demeaning generalizations about them either, especially since many of them are wanting a better life. Many have even been displaced by our own foreign policy. That's why I feel like there should be a path to citizenship for undocumented workers with an otherwise clean record and work history. I'm probably getting sidetracked here, but to me, I don't consider this a "woke 1.0" issue because it's actually legit and not the usual cynical nonsense.
Another aspect of woke is identity politics, which they weaponized to use as a shied from criticism. For example, criticizing a politician who happened to be a woman, a person of color (or both) would often get you labeled a racist or a sexist, even if the criticisms were entirely policy based. Again, it was a ploy, but that is what woke 1.0 was all about.
Lastly, there was the whole "defund the police" nonsense. I believe that was the main reason AOC finally said that "woke 1.0 was crazy" (even though she was part of it). Of course, that also gives psy-op vibes because it feeds into the "radical/far-left" narrative that right wingers and neoliberal relics like James Carvile are always fear mongering about whenever they talk about socialists and progressives. "Defund the police" has always been a poorly worded phrase because it comes across like abolish the police. Instead, the focus should have been on putting funds towards retraining officers to deescalate situations. Demilitarizing the police and investing in mental health facilities would also be a step in the right direction. The problem with these woke posers is they always go for what sounds the most radical, regardless of the harm it may cause. That's where it feels like it's by design because it's clearly possible to be on the left and come up with practical ideas. However, some people are incentivized to shut that down cold.
