Wokistan. The occupation.
We didn't even know. We didn't see it coming. Wokistan.
Wokistan was a while in the making. It wasn't like United States democracy which was formed out of the constitution. Our constitution and freedoms were sharpened and fine tuned over the years using the genius structure of the founding fathers to weed out imperfections. Impediments to justice and freedom.
Wokistan. It wasn't a real country. It was thoughts. Ideas. Ideology. Religion. Political power. And that was where the long domino run was flipping its last tabs over. Wokistan was now fully in control with vast and raw political power.
Their story really gets going after the end of WW2. The United States had come through the world wide disaster as the pre-eminent financial power and certainly one of the two pre-eminent military powers. The renewed peace, freedom and national pride seemed to be a healing salve on the still smoldering souls of a tired but determined population. The freedom of the US? The prosperity of the US? The power of the US? The envy of the world. The envy of the world that would eventually be referred to as Normalia. Free people. Working hard. Being free. Not knowing they were being slowing smothered. Slowly. Un-noticeably slow, but smothered non the less.
This is where the story of Wokistan formed its soul. The smallest germination. It limped to life as a series of actual excellent things. Racial equality. Gender equality. Women's rights. Unknown forces of intellectual, business and political power were watching. Lerking. Yes. Then began the law suits. It was that easy to take over corporate America. Death by a million razor blade cuts. Law suits. For this offense. That offense. This prejudice. That micro-aggression. Then suddenly the whole body is bleeding out as every decision and breathe is approved or disdained through the prism of the next law suit. Thank you for the power you have given me. I can now rule through judicial intimidation. Woke religious enforcement using the cost of jurisprudence as the hammer. The most ironic thing about your new masters? They used capitalism and the free market of threatening legal actions/cost to take over.
There are really people who live to enjoy their own sense of power and importance. It is a lust far beyond sex or over-eating. With a sweep of the hand it is willing to clear the table of any encumbrances, moral standards or rules of any kind. The end, the hard, long run to the end, is the only thing of relevance or importance.
Wokistan began to grow. It found a home, a base of operations in one of the more surprising locations and yet it was a perfect fit. The US Democratic party. Yes. The very home of the fight against the man, the running away from a history of racism and bigotry of all sorts needed to turn a page. Start new chapters. A new book really. Wokism was not only a perfect fit, they didn't even see it coming until it was there and running the show.
All the while Normalia, the juggernaut, the backbone, the force that was the power of the light that was the beacon of freedom and prosperity continued on unaware. Their leadership eroding. Their principles slowly co-opted. Their off-spring siphoned off into a mirrored hall of re-directed reasoning.
This irony. All the while Normalia was insisting on the freedom of Wokistan to in effect take them over. It was, after all, a free country, wasn't it?
This is really where the hard story get's some modern day relevance. Wokistan pushed their position. They established first that if you weren't one of them you were obviously now racist. Better yet, if you weren't one of them you hated women. When they found that this worked to perfection as a marketing tool and populace control function they were smart enough to know what to do next to push their position. Take over the media. As in, take it over completely. Seed journalism schools. Seed network controls.
As Wokistan began to see how easy this was. They turned also to the ultimate control of a country like Normalia. In the guise of fairness they would "rescue" the education system.
When they saw that this could go on un-apposed the rest was easy. Business leaders now intimidated? Social media now a given. In short order they would own Normalia.
Wokistan could now attack. Not only with market pressures through bad publicity, but from the inside out. Law suits. Trip wires of words maybe misspoken in conversations could now be cause litigant supreme. The egg-shell co-worker was given pre-eminence. The weaker the subgroup
Wokistan could find, the easier it was to further label those in Normalia into a confined control group.
Wokistan. They boil frogs. You are the frogs.