By Mike Britton,
Naperville, Ill.
Whether you believe it or not, we live in a Darwinist world where natural selection is the rule and the strong survive and prosper. We do not live in a dreamland where all countries co-exist for the mutual benefit of everyone. Consecutive generations of extreme prosperity and stability here in the United States have created a false sense of security and belief the world is a kind, ordered, and rational, place. It is simply not the reality now, nor has it been, since the inception of human existence.
Do not go to sleep at night believing the authoritarian countries across the globe have any desire or long-term goal, other than to seriously weaken and/or destroy our American experiment. Political messages of kindness and cooperation from otherwise aggressive enemies is a survival strategy given the overwhelming strength of the United States and is nothing more than a very thin candy- like shell over the natural and timeless world of Darwinism.
The proliferation and normalization of woke policies across the American landscape has had the approval of the Joe Biden administration. It is directly impacts the strength of the United States and our ability to protect our national security interests for fear of offending the feelings of countries less powerful than us. Woke behavior is tolerated within local communities under the umbrella of fairness, or equity. However, on the world stage, it is essential for the United States to appear strong and act strong in the interest of global security. Our leaders should never apologize for our greatness, nor dummy down our country’s power in the face of our friends or adversaries. Wokeness and weakness mean the same thing on the global stage.
Capitalism and democracy have provided our country with an unparalleled level of prosperity and strength. We need to throw off the woke cloth and demand our leadership preserve our position of strength and leadership in the world. If not, the umbrella of military protection we have been providing the world for generations may fall. If it happens, many countries will see at their doorstep the true nature of the barbaric, authoritarian, regimes around them and Darwin will be proven correct once again.