When ideology replaces meritocracy or supplies immunity from the results of unlawful habits, systemic mediocrity follows.
Below poisonous Nationwide Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, hundreds of thousands of cronies and grifters mouthed occasion traces in hopes that their accepted ideology would permit them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking.
The identical factor has occurred with the woke motion and the now-huge Variety/Fairness/Inclusion conglomerate.
Grifters and opportunists masks their egocentric agendas underneath the cloak of neo-Marxist take care of the underprivileged or victimized minorities. In the meantime, they search to revenue illegally as in the event that they had been old school crony capitalists.
Through the disastrous COVID-19 lockdown, California governor Gavin Newsom pontificated about leveraging the quarantine to make sure larger equality: “There’s alternative for reimagining a [more] progressive period because it [relates] to capitalism…We see this as a possibility to reshape the way in which we do enterprise and the way we govern.”
In the meantime, Newsom didn’t appear very “progressive” when he was caught in certainly one of California’s most costly eating places eating with sidekick lobbyists whereas violating the very masks and social distancing guidelines he had mandated for 40 million others.
Newsom additionally bragged about social fairness when he signed a brand new California legislation mandating $20 an hour for fast-food employees—whereas lots of his personal staff at his varied company-controlled eateries made solely $16 an hour.
And he allegedly gave a singular exemption from his wage legislation to at least one explicit bakery/restaurant chain, Panera, whose proprietor is an previous good friend and main marketing campaign contributor.
Newsom apparently feels that the extra progressively he postures, the much less he’ll be known as out for his personal hypocrisy and self-interested agendas.
In one other egregious case, the now-imprisoned felon, Sam Bankman-Fried, might have been the best con artist in American historical past. He siphoned billions of {dollars} from his cryptocurrency firm, destroying the fortunes of hundreds when his multi-billion-dollar Ponzi empire collapsed.
How did Sam and his two Stanford law-professor mother and father handle to build up hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in resort properties and perks with out getting caught till after their empire collapsed?
Reply: Sam showered hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on left-wing politicians to advance their progressive crusades. His mother and father justified this household giving as a type of “efficient altruism.”
That catchy phrase masked the truth that his campaign for social justice was simply an extremely efficient get-rich-quick scheme.
The Bankman-Fried household apparently reasoned that their devotion to this woke type of “altruism” would translate into riches for themselves, albeit bankruptcies for buyers.
One other instance: in Georgia’s Fulton County, District Lawyer Fani Willis ran for workplace, promising to indict supposed right-wing monster Donald Trump.
She raised marketing campaign cash on her woke credentials. Typically, when challenged, she performed the race sufferer card.
In the meantime, Willis employed as a particular prosecutor her secret paramour, the incompetent Nathan Wade, though he had by no means tried a single felony and even legal case.
She and Wade then went on costly junkets. She claimed that she reimbursed him with money that was, after all, unverifiable.
Given their woke ideology, each assumed they had been entitled to splurge at taxpayers’ expense, provide likely-false testimony underneath oath, and violate canons {of professional} habits for attorneys.
She wasn’t alone in her corruption. After the loss of life of George Floyd, the founders of the left-wing Black Lives Matter motion went on a house-buying rampage. The extra firms crammed their coffers with hundreds of thousands, both from guilt or as safety cash, the extra new properties the administrators bought.
One co-founder, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a self-described Marxist, splurged by spending $3.2 million in BLM cash to purchase herself 4 upscale residences.
And probably the most radical Democratic members of Congress—the so-called Squad—apparently really feel that the extra they degree accusations of racism, the extra they will revenue with out fearing any penalties for his or her wrongdoing.
One squad member, Rep. Ilhan Omar, redirected $2.8 million of her workplace’s allotted authorities cash to her husband’s political consulting firm.
Nonetheless one other member, the unconventional leftist Rep. Cori Bush, typically harangued the nation to defund the police. Now the FBI is investigating her for stealthily paying tens of hundreds of marketing campaign {dollars} to her personal husband for “safety.”
Woke and DEI activists might not essentially be any extra innately mediocre, corrupt, or conniving than different politicians and activists.
However they appear so, as a result of they loudly broadcast that they’re for “variety,” “fairness,” and “inclusion”—and thus assume themselves to be exempt from all scrutiny and free to revenue in any approach they please.
The woke/DEI mission is engaging hundreds of shysters, careerists, and mediocrities, all eager to counterpoint themselves on the premise that they’re noble fighters for social justice who deserve immunity from any scrutiny.
How odd it’s that America is losing billions of {dollars} hiring DEI czars and electing woke politicians who so typically accuse others of a mess of sins, largely as a approach of enriching themselves, hiding their very own culpability, and making a mockery of the legislation.