The Anger of the Antebellum Wokies

American Thinker 

In about 50 years, experts agree, Wikipedia will have a page called “Antebellum Wokism” discussing the rage and the impotence of late-stage progressivism, and how the progressives defended the indefensible for decades before progressivism’s inevitable debacle. For now, it just has an “Antebellum South” article about how the South defended slavery:

Initially regarded as an awkward and temporary institution, [slavery] gradually evolved into a defended concept, with proponents arguing for its positive merits, while simultaneously vehemently opposing the burgeoning abolitionist movement.

As the Southrons evolved into defending their “concept” more and more, they got angry. Who can forget  the caning of Sen. Sumner (R-MA) on the floor of the Senate in 1856?

Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to beat Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts, nearly to death.

The new Wikipedia article will also include an explainer for those that need a bit of expert analysis to teach them what to think. It will say this about the educated-class slave state that was:

“Intitally regarded as a glorious success and the epitome of ‘progress,’ the woke state gradually devolved into a corrupt slave state, with neo-aristocrats feasting on vast banquet of government grants in their NGO palaces, neo-gangs gobbling an array of fraudulent social services under the averted gaze of the woke aristos. At the bottom was a ghetto of neo-slaves consuming an array of government benefits, from food to money to housing to health care in return for their votes, while they descended into both cultural and economic bankruptcy.”

My point is that our liberal and wokey and Democrat friends are angry, just like the Southrons of old. They regard themselves as our moral and cultural superiors. They can’t believe they are losing to the likes of Trump, and they are willing to do almost anything to hang onto power. And the leaders of the Church of Woke know that to keep the believers filling the pews they have to keep them angry.

Otherwise, what’s the point of disbarring John Eastman, for daring to dispute the 2020 election?

Otherwise, what’s the point of riling Democrat voters up for the “No Kings” peaceful protests?

Otherwise, what’s the point of lawfaring after Jack Phillips of the Masterpiece Cake Shop?

Otherwise, what’s the point of sending the G-men into Mar-a-lago after Donald Trump had been safely defeated for all time in 2020?

Otherwise, why deploy the Intelligence Community to fake up a Russian collusion narrative back in 2015-16?

Bless their hearts.

You see, their God is Dead, and they have killed xer.

Because I am so wise, I feel a certain sympathy for our lefty friends, caught as they are in the chaotic Retreat from Woke. Just as I have, over the years, developed a rather relaxed view of slavery.

The Romans did it, parading the captured slaves in their Triumphs.

The Vikings did it, sailing up the rivers of England to kill the men and take the women and children to the slave market in Dublin, Ireland.

Everyone did it, transporting the Circassian beauties across the Black Sea to the harems of the Ottoman Empire.

The West Africans did it, rounding up slaves and selling them to the European slave ships for transportation to the Americas.

The Anglo-Saxons did it. In the year 1000 when starvation threatened, you could go to your lord in England and ask to become a slave: “head for food.”

The Soviets did it, enslaving the Russian people to create the glories of Communism.

Mao did it, enslaving the Chinese people to implement the Great Leap Forward.

We do it, with welfare and food stamps and free housing and all the rest of the welfare state.

However, experts insist, encouraging helpless migrants to journey to the United States and become wards of the state under the benevolent eye of countless government-funded NGOs is absolutely not slavery.

The main question is whether we can put to bed the failed regime of progressivism and wokism without a repeat of the Civil War. Suppose both sides had cooled their jets in the 1860s: I like to ask whether the South would have continued its slave system after mechanical cotton picking got started. And what about the moral argument about slavery in the 1880s as concerned citizens started to worry about the frightful menace of the Robber Barons?

For instance, I doubt if any current GOP U.S. Senator would stage a fiery two-day speech on the floor of the Senate like Sen. Sumner (R-MA) on “The Crime Against Kansas.” The truth is that we far-right racist-sexist-homophobes affect a more relaxed view of our political adversaries, like Vice President JD Vance and “I don’t really care, Margaret.” We look on the DSA youngsters, from AOC to Mamdani, as spoiled brats pissing away Daddy’s money. And their senior Bernie brethren as comical holdovers, Keystone Kops, from an olden time.