By Brandon Smith
The social justice cult never sleeps, they are forever “woke”, and they want to own the US military. They want it so bad they are frothing at the mouth over it. Whether or not they actually get what they want is another matter entirely. The induction of Joe Biden into the White House has opened the door to a new propaganda narrative, and it goes a little something like this:
“The military is rife with ‘white supremacists’ and extremists, and it needs to be purged to make way for more diversity…”
One of Biden’s first actions upon entering the Oval Office was to use Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as a foil to preach the critical race theory gospel and attack the current military framework as “racist”. Austin is black and he was a four-star general in the Army, so clearly there is not much racism holding minorities back in the armed forces. But ultimately this situation is not really about racism…
The language of leftists and globalists can be rather confusing because they never mean exactly what they say. The word “diversity” generally means “more leftists/Marxists”, not more brown people. Leftists are incredibly racist towards any minority person that argues from a conservative or moderate position. The phrase “white supremacist” is usually a hatchet reference to all conservatives. So, to translate their woke gibberish, the goal of the Pentagon under Biden will be to divest the ranks of the military of conservatives and replace them with more regime friendly leftists.
The goal of propaganda is often to create false word associations in the minds of the masses. The mainstream media constantly mentions “white supremacists”, “neo-nazis” and “extremists” within the same articles they mention “conservatives”. Though there is no evidence whatsoever to link the majority of conservatives with race identity groups, the hope within the establishment is that the conservative base in the US can be dismantled through guilt by manufactured association.
Anyone who stands against the social justice mob is labeled “white supremacist”. Therefore, all conservatives are white supremacists, because the social justice cult controls who gets labeled. The social justice cult thus becomes the self anointed arbiters of who gets canceled and who does not. See how that works?
As far as the military is concerned, the obvious intent is to link all conservative views with “extremism and racism”, thereby creating an artificial rationale for removing conservatives from the ranks or denying them the ability to sign up in the first place. The Pentagon is already openly discussing plans to comb through the social media histories of troops in order to root out those with “extremist backgrounds” (conservatives and constitutionalists). In theory, this would only leave devout social justice warriors behind. It is a political and ideological cleansing of the armed forces.
The Cult of Woke is like a hive of parasitic termites that feeds its way through the various pillars of western society until they crumble; once a pillar is hollowed out, they move onto the next one, and the next one until the nation or civilization breaks apart completely. As the nation is destabilized, they then offer their own social model as a solution to the problem. Invariably, their model is one that eliminates all individual freedom and inherent rights in the name of collective “safety” and “equity”. It is totalitarianism posing as compassion.
To be sure, the Department of Defense is fast-tracking the woke agenda. There’s no denying it after the latest promotional campaigns for military recruitment (not to mention the CIA’s bizarre ad campaign). Here is an example below which truly boggles the mind:
Straight white men are noticeably absent from the Pentagon’s new series of commercials, and the people represented are a perfect pie chart of diversity hiring, even though the US is around 70% white and around 96% straight (according to Gallup).
But who are these commercials really made for? The Army admits they had to search a worldwide roster of soldiers, obtaining only 100 submissions that fit their woke criteria, and then filtered those submissions down to just a handful that met the diversity requirements of the marketing campaign. Some of the commercials are subtle, and some of them are not. The US campaign seems to be mimicking the “Snowflake” ad campaign used by the UK military in 2019 in a bid to attract what they call “Me Me Me Millennials”.
Clearly, the percentage of soldiers that check most or all of the woke boxes is tiny. The commercials are also notably in cartoon form, because SJWs have a hard time absorbing information unless it is animated.
Admittedly, there has been a quiet softening of military standards, including the reduction of boot camp training requirements. This is apparently meant to attract more women to the armed forces outside of the Air Force and Navy, as a majority of females have consistently failed basic physical standards. The US Army had to halt the “gender neutral physical fitness test” this year because women were failing at a rate of over 65% according to the Pentagon (they were failing at a rate closer to 85% according to instructors). The Army is now trying to establish a new “crossfit inspired” training routine in order to increase the success rate of women in boot camp.
Women make up only 15% of active duty personnel among all the branches combined and are far more likely to leave service earlier than men. The data is cut-and-dry; trying to overtly appeal to women is a non-starter, particularly for the Army and the Marines.
US Army training facilities have also recently been forced to remove the traditional “Shark Attack” from the first day of boot camp. The Shark Attack is basically a psychological wake up call, a way to send a message to recruits that they are no longer living in mommy and daddy’s basement and everything they do will now be scrutinized. Army brass felt that this tradition was “too abrasive” and that it needed to be “updated” with a kinder gentler first day program. In other words, the army wants to avoid upsetting people with weak dispositions so that they can increase recruitment stats.
Within conservative and liberty movement circles there are rising concerns that globalists and leftists within our government are seeking to eliminate the principles of personal strength and merit because these elements are repellent to leftists. There is also the concern that the establishment intends to use a revamped “woke military” to subjugate the American public. While this might be the overall intention, I’m not all that worried, and here are the reasons why…
The Numbers For A Woke Military Don’t Exist
Globalists are very mindful of statistical realities, and they know that the current military dynamic is against them; hence their growing thirst for the wokification of our branches of defense. I want to remind conservatives that this is a good thing. They are trying to force social justice politics into the military because the military is the exact opposite of what they want it to be.
For example, polling in 2016 showed that around 31% to 35% of the US military is Republican, while around 25% to 29% votes Democrat. But what about the remainder? The media often calls the remaining current serving voters “moderates” or “independents”. As it turns out, up to 40% of the military is actually libertarian or constitutionalist leaning according to polls.
The mainstream media tries to hide this fact by only talking about “Republican votes” and “Democrat votes”, but the reality is that the vast majority of the military is conservative oriented, with values based in personal freedom and constitutionalism. That 40% of libertarians and constitutionalists is what the elites are really worried about. This is who they are referring to when they talk about “extremists” in the military.
And what about the 25% to 29% of Democrats? That is the extent of the left’s hold within the general ranks of the military and it is improbable that most of these democrats are hard leftists. Further studies also show that the majority of veterans leaving the military identify overwhelmingly as Republican, conservative or “independent”, not as Democrat or leftist.
This is probably why the latest social justice recruitment commercials by the Army are getting ratioed into oblivion by soldiers and the public alike. In response the Army YouTube page has shut down comments. Last I checked, the new LGBTQ and feminist inspired “Emma: The Calling” Army video had only 700 up-votes and over 33,000 down-votes. This is an epic fail. Where are all the hardcore social justice warriors just itching to join the military and “get some”? They don’t exist. The establishment is trying to appeal to a phantom demographic.
The fact is, the only place you will find a preponderance of woke lunatics in the military is among the brass and sometimes in the officer corps; the leadership within the pentagon has been carefully groomed to create a leftist/globalist consolidation, and this has been going on for decades. Generals are for the most part politicians, not warriors (SPECIAL NOTE: Never trust retired generals or retired CIA agents, even if they claim to be on the side of liberty).
While military leadership might go woke, this does not mean the rest of the military will, nor does it mean that troops will follow unconstitutional orders from such people.
Leftists Don’t Want To Join Because They Cannot Cope With Meritocracy
Not all of us are made for the military. To be clear, the military serves one basic purpose: It is a machine for killing people. The job of the military is to train the most efficient killers possible for the effective defense of the nation. It is not the job of the military to focus on “inclusion” or “intersectionality”. Anyone that says anything different is delusional or has an agenda.
There are people that are born with the psychological traits and physical traits needed to fight effectively, and there are a whole lot of people out there who will never hack it. Finding the people with the right traits is something that the US military has mastered. This is undeniable.
I also think that in our modern era of helicopter parents and equity training and participation trophies that the newest generation of Zoomers has been conditioned to be incredibly narcissistic as well as weak in mind and spirit, and the military is one of the last options left for these people to break that conditioning and become real adults instead of overgrown children. If you want to erase Woke cultism from our society just send all these kids to boot camp and they will be cured of their snowflake tendencies in a matter of months.
There are of course constitutional concerns for military structure. America was never supposed to have a standing army in the first place; we were supposed to have local militias made up of every able bodied male citizen in a community. That said, I’ll be the first to admit that even within a militia system a warrior class is going to develop naturally. There will always be people who are set apart from everyone else in this regard.
Another concern is the problem of leadership. As noted, today’s military leadership and American political leadership are not to be trusted, and for most warriors the question will always be this:
“Will I be sent to fight and possibly die for a just cause, or a corrupt cause?”
Under the current establishment war is indeed a racket, and most warriors will long for a real fight, a fight that is honorable. My personal conflict with the military is not the institution so much as the people in charge. I cannot fight for corrupt people.
However, for leftists that avidly supported Barack Obama during his massive expansion of wars in the Middle East, the conflict is not about principles of leadership. No, their conflict is with the core values that make the military what it is. Trying to remove the merit based model from the US military will be extremely difficult. Social justice ideology and military standards of achievement are mutually exclusive; they cannot coexist in the same space. So, in order for the military to go full-on puritan the establishment would have to remove all the elements that make the military effective. They would have to destroy the military in order to “diversify” it.
And maybe this is the ultimate goal. Maybe the globalists WANT to undermine the foundation of the US military with the intent to make America weak and easier to conquer. But then again, wherever there is a void, the physics of civilization seeks to fill it.
The Establishment Is Unwittingly Creating A Counter-Military
One positive outcome from the long running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that hundreds of thousands of veterans with extensive combat experience have come back home over the past 20 years, and most of them are conservatives. They are also very wary of the political dynamics in Washington DC. They know exactly what is going on in this country. Beyond this, any attempt to force social justice propaganda on the current serving is going to alienate more than 60% of soldiers. And while they are not legally allowed to speak out politically, they will not necessarily follow the Woke cult blindly and turn against their own.
The establishment is now faced with a massive conundrum; by pressing their agenda within the military they are by default creating a separate and opposing military, one that could erase them from existence. Who would you put your money on? An army of limp-wristed, diversity obsessed progressives with velvet glove training? Or an army of battle hardened conservatives who walked through the pyre and came out the other side?
Even if the objective is to debase the US military until it breaks apart, this does not mean America will go undefended. We would reorganize, perhaps as an unofficial militia system outside of federal control. In the end, a woke military cannot survive nor would it thrive; it would only inspire the revitalization of a liberty minded and free military force that would act as a counterpoint to the globalist agenda.
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The globalists would gladly destroy the US and weakening the US military is likely part of their plan. I would guess they are betting on the Chinese and Russian military as being more useful in their global takeover.
I rather doubt that the Russian military would willingly be a global mercenary force. One of the main differences between the USA and Russia as far as national identity is that Russians have an older culture that has been through hell quite literally and survived. They have been invaded from within and without, starved, murdered and bankrupted. The USA on the other hand has constantly been watered down and deceived by globalist factions originating in Europe and elsewhere. It is far easier to enact mass behavioral programming on what is increasingly a souless culture. I do not mean that is true for all Americans, I’m simply pointing out a trend.
Have you never heard of Wagner Group? Russia already has a global mercenary force.
Yes I have heard of them and they appear to be of a different cut of cloth than Blackwater or whatever name they are currently using.
The Military of the Future will be a Cyber-force
So they’re trying to recruit the Gamer Generation–Nihilists–who can kill via drone attacks–cyber-terrorism
Enders game -type warfare
The rest is Psychological Warfare
When any killing has to be done on ground– the US/NATO recruits mercenaries–usually from the same ethnic group as the target nation–their neighbours– eg Turks killing Syrians for NATO
The Top Brass of the Military Mafia are 100% Globalists
“Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
The US Military has been compromised for decades
Kay Griggs interviews clearly describe what the Military Mafia has been up to
Anyone above the rank of captain is part of this Masonic Brotherhood
A stay-behind network set up by the British in every colony they have established
This is who you are up against
https://overmanwarrior.blog/2016/01/06/the-kay-griggs-story-understanding-who-they-are/
I’m not worried about the tiny percentage of the officer corps. I look at the predominance of liberty minded people among regular soldiers and special operations, and those guys are ALL conservatives. The generals and officers are nobodies. They are irrelevant. The real soldiers are on our side.
Interesting point about not trusting retired generals or ex CIA. Good advice, as they are certain to be out there spreading disinformation and poisoning the well.
Would that apply to Ray McGovern? He always struck me as OK. Perhaps not?
How about Bill Binney? I know he is ex NSA not ex CIA but he’s still a potential for disinfo. I always thought he was a genuine good guy.
While I cannot speak to the individuals, I get the sense tha they never actually retire. To be a good gatekeeper and to create effective limited hangout, distraction and misdirection, there needs to be “street cred” that is to say some valid information included in order to sink the hook. Once this is done the audience is far more likely to believe whatever comes next or at very least pay close attention to it rather than something else. I have in the past been reluctant to come round to see that individuals that I once considered to be legit and genuine were upon closer examination, shills.
I am in the coast guard and my days are probably numbered as I regularly visit this site. Oh well even if I make it to retirement in three years our currency will be worthless in maybe a year so my retirement pay will be meaningless.
Jim rickards
Their goal is Pregnant Pussy Patrols, Transgender Troop Transports & Commiecunt Commandos. Welcome to the Militariat of The Disunited States of Unamericunts.
I have an astounding amount of affinity for the alliteration you’ve… employed!
That’s quite an… interesting… description! Not saying you’re wrong. Just interesting.
Another reason the army will never go woke is because the woke crowd are by and large cowards. Being in the military requires more than just the will to kill, it requires bravery in the face of death and a willingness to make personal sacrifices; traits the woke crowd simply don’t have. Take Antifa and BLM for instance: sure they’re vicious to the point of being willing to kill to get what they want but they are FAR from brave or self-sacrificing. The only reasons they behave as viciously as they do is because they are largely protected from the consequences by the establishment itself and if they have a numbers advantage against whoever they plan to attack. It’s real easy to act tough when you know there’s no risks involved. In a real shooting war they’d either be the first ones to die or taken prisoner because they’d chicken out and surrender at first contact with enemy.
And besides, they’re complete hoplophobic soy-boys and being in the military requires them to be surrounded by all sorts of big scary guns and actual masculinity.
You make a valid point about the summer rioters seeming to be able to operate with impunity. It is very different story when an armed populace says ‘no’. I think it was in CO or UT when the woke mob descended upon a small town of armed citzens? They looked quite shocked, took a lap down main st. and left….
Matt Bracken had some comments on this topic recently.
4:20 – recent first all-drone war
6:30 – woke recruiting is good enough to find compartmentalized drone operators to fight “white supremacists”
10:30 – purpose of woke push in US military is preparation to attack Americans, not defend against China or Russia
Agree with Brandon it’s an uphill climb for team evil but thought it was worth watching.
https://2020electioncenter.com/watch?id=609da3984792f5289a8a7e81
I have disagreed with Brandon on this subject in the past. Matt Bracken pretty much lays out my concerns. Speaking from experience, when you go for your psychological evaluation to determine if you would launch a missile into an unarmed population, they are only concerned if you would push the button if ordered. The woke would be chomping at the bit to rid themselves of white supremists, even if they are a white woman. It is the white woman who will bring down the US, hence the add campaign directed at white women.
The “woke” would only hasten their defeat by launching missiles into unarmed populations. Also, technology does not win wars, boots on the ground wins wars along with the will to fight. This is a reality of war that the drone obsessed don’t seem to grasp.
A genuinely thoughtful article. There’s an ancient saying in the military: “True leaders never get above the rank fo colonel!”
Austin was an abysmal failure as CENTCOM commander so I would expect even worse as SecDef. The notion of teaching Maoist Thought (CRT) in the service academies and throughout the military branches suggests to me that America is over.
I admire amd respect your optimism but I see that the Biden Administration is top heavy with “former” CCP lobbyists and the public spokespeople for that Green New Deal are almost all either advisors or lobbyists for the CCP so I suspect the situation is even far worse than many believe?!
Take the Silk Road Finance Corporation which is the financial comp⁷onent of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative to dominate the planet. The chairman of the board is John Thornton, formerly of Goldman Sachs (remember him from that 2007 to 2009 global economic meltdown?). Other board members include a Harvard professor, former secretary general of both NATO and the EU and a former senior finance type from the Vatican, etc.
Not looking good . .
Oh, don’t get me wrong, Washington DC is screwed and the federal government can never be salvaged. I would never argue otherwise. My point is that the data shows that the US military is actually majority conservative and on our side, and all of those troops have a choice – They can follow unconstitutional orders or they can refuse. I think a large number of them will refuse, and I think the elites KNOW this is the case. This is why they are pushing a social justice driven recruitment program; they know the current military is not under their control.
“troops have a choice – they can follow unconstitutional orders or they can refuse”
They’ll NEVER get an “unconstitutional” order. There’s a choice of a million and one euphemisms to use, like e.g., “We must protect our democracy and stop the white supremacists or neo-Nazis…” etc.
Doesn’t matter what they call it, many US soldiers will know when they are being ordered to do something illegal. Most of them are not stupid.
When Austin was at CENTCOM he was the guy who told Obama that ISIS was nothing but “the JV team.”
The Peter Principle is turbocharged in today’s woke, CRT world
What a disgusting propaganda video. Promoting two mentally ill women living together with a child hostage who was indoctrinated with wokeness at a young age. You have a ‘mom’ who thinks she’s a man….dresses like a man……has a haircut like a man…….has a mentality of a man……has everything a man has except the most important piece……a tally wacker. If you want to date someone who pretends to be a man…..why not just date a man to begin with? And now you have our military promoting diversity of mental illness instead of ability. Our country deserves whatever happens to us. We really need to split this country up with 2 commie countries on the east and west coast and then a normal country in the middle.
I would submit to you that the most import piece of a man is not his tally wacker, but his manly character, which a woman can never approximate.
The “Tree of Liberty” will very very soon be watered most fully !
First, I’ll be honest. I don’t care one bit who has a sexual preference for whom. It isn’t my business and it isn’t my concern.
Second, I’m ex-military. And what these idiots are attempting to do to the U.S. military is sickening. I agree with you, Brandon. It will fail and fail spectacularly.
The one point of concern I have is that the Pentagon has been putting more and more fiat $USD on technology toward autonomous automation. My concern is that the globalists intend to replace human boots on the ground with autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic machines, and compliment them with remote piloted or fully autonomous aircraft.
I’ve no idea how far along they are, but I do understand that the technology military brass make public is not the cutting edge stuff they have.
I also understand potential psyop. I was military intel during the time when Aquino’s “Mind War” was “From PSYOP to Mindwar.” It was distributed throughout my unit. Because high tech is somewhat mysterious to most people, lies about technological capabilities can be used to ‘discourage’ resistance.
I’d be interested to know your thoughts, Brandon, on the potential issues I’ve outlined above in the context of these insane changes to U.S. military recruitment and training.
In a heavilly mechanized world, it is not all that much of a stretch for machine to be automated. There are few lines to be crossed, and one of them is AI on the “killswitch”. My understanding is that is being worked on right now. On a more abstract level the scenario you hinted at is alot like the wizard of Oz having a fleet of flying monkeys at his disposal. No need for battle hardened soldiers when the population is sick, emasculated, and living in fear of the next assault by combat mechas. Sceptics who lack forward thinking abilities always scoff and they are proven wrong time and time again. “It can’t happen here” has never been a long term strategy.
AI is nowhere near advanced enough to engage in intelligent combat. Drones still need human operators to function in complex situations.
Off topic, but I believe important –
Brandon,
I’ve read others suggesting the likelihood of s cyber attack on the financial system as the next “trigger”.. I’d be curious about your thoughts on the matter, and very interested in seeing you write a piece on it, if you agree that it is in fact highly likely.. Your readers are always asking you for “timelines”.. I’d think this might be likely following the WEF’s cyber attack simulation this July..
Thx
That certainly seems to be the case and I dont see battle droids carrying the day on the ground right away. I recall looking into loitering munitions well over a decade ago and thinking that would be the way to go for big money armies (intially). Fast forward to the latest conflict in Nagorno Karbhak (sp.) and the implementation of these devices turned the tide of the conflict. My point is that remote mechanized warfare is only growing in volume and effectiveness.
Well, we are going to see more drones implemented, that’s for sure, but I’m seeing people argue that they are going to field some kind of mechanized army like the movie Terminator, and I can say without any doubt that that’s not going to happen. AI is all hype and no results in terms of combat effectiveness and drones are outrageously expensive ($15,000 just to keep a predator drone in the air for an hour). The elites are going to need a lot of human personnel no matter what happens, and if they are recruiting from the “woke” population, then they are doomed.
If you like apocalyptic fiction, check out Kurt Schlichters series of books starting with the “People’s Republic” it goes into the break up of the USA specifically due to the “woke” cultural revolution, it’s well written and quite timely.
Thank you 4 this article Brandon, as always thoroughly written with passion and discernment. This is oe is a hard nut 2 crack.
Seems to me that the PTP should be more afraid of a true militia. Hence the need to do away with the 2A.
I agree with everything Brandon said, so I nothing to add on this topic, but off topic, here’s what I found on South Carolina’s DMV website for obtaining a driver’s license:
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“If you have a valid driver’s license or identification card from another state and permanently move to South Carolina, you must apply for an SC license or ID. You must turn in your out-of-state license or ID when you get one in this state.”
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Whatever happened to the freedom to travel? I thought I could perhaps maintain a dual residency in both CA and SC, but apparently if you want to drive on their roads, the “guvmint” wants to know where you reside.
Every state has that rule. I’ve had to do it every time we’ve moved state to state. In some states, even though you have an existing DL from another state, you are required to show your birth certificate in addition to the existing DL just to get the new DL.
“They would have to destroy the military in order to “diversify” it.”
Well, to be fair, they’ve certainly gone a long way in destroying higher education in order to diversify it, so I wouldn’t put it past them. Besides, they just want to put these women in positions of leadership. Haven’t you seen any of the new Star Wars movies? All of the leadership is female (even when all the leadership is sucked out into space, the highest ranking person left is a pink haired lady), and it’s probably no coincidence that they keep getting their butts kicked by the imperial fleet.
Of course, in real life, the egalitarian ‘wokesters’ will be the imperial fleet hunting down the excellence oriented male-led resistance. Let’s pray they do go ‘full woke’ and can’t do their leg tucks!
Hey Brandon, I’m a huge fan of your work. You always have something inciteful and unique to add to these sorts of conversations (liberty/politics/culture/strategy). You also have a lot of skill writing and are a pleasure to read. Keep doing what you’re doing. You are making an impact. I do my best to amplify that by sending your articles to others. Right now that’s all I can really do to help. Sorry about that.
I’d be interested to know what your intellectual back story is. What authors/scholars/journalists made an impact on you in regards to your current political and social convictions?
Anyone with a college degree goes in as a commissioned officer, Corporal Emma.
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