Unless one still gets the bulk of their news from mainstream sources, the failure of virtually every institution is painfully clear to see.
The latest example involves Michigan State shooter Anthony Dwayne McRae. It seems that a Soros-affiliated DA dropped felony gun charges against him. Had the charges stuck, he would not have been able to legally obtain the weapon used in his killer rampage. In this case, it wasn’t “Get woke, go broke.” It was “DA gets woke, citizens get killed.”
Academia, once respected as the incubator of great ideas, has been reduced to an overpriced, overfunded den of woke activists and misfits. No doubt, a certain number of academics do not share the viewpoints of their colleagues, but they have been scared into silence.
Federal healthcare agencies have done virtually everything wrong in handling the COVID pandemic—from the disastrous lockdowns to the awful “vaccines.” No coincidence that much of this policy came from a bevy of useless medical academics. More’s the pity that as damning evidence of this failure continues to emerge, the mere size and inertia of these bureaucracies will facilitate denial for a very long time.
Large and once respected corporations, including onetime family favorite Disney, have lost billions attempting to appease the gods of wokeness. As such, parents can no longer rely on that brand to ensure wholesome entertainment.
To cite one more example, key medical associations have wholeheartedly embraced the despicable practice of mutilating “gender-affirming” surgery in children. Sadly, in so many of these cases, an estranged and psychotic mother is advocating such surgery against the strong wishes of her ex.
Thus, we have a sort of women’s lib by evil proxy. Such is the madness of our times.
The reference to Antonio Gramsci refers to his “War of Position,” which seemed to inspire Rudi Dutschke’s “Long March Through the Institutions.” Gramsci and Dutschke were both hard-core socialists, and their roadmap has been quite successful.
Perhaps the biggest institutional failure has been that of the Catholic Church. While there has been no shortage of encyclicals decrying the evils of socialism, along with learned pronouncements on various aspects of morality, too many fallible churchmen have emerged on the wrong side of these matters. Some have suggested that Stalin himself ordered communists, in particular gays, to infiltrate seminaries.
What might still save us is the natural law. But, as with all lofty concepts, logic and right reason must still be applied. The question remains if our inherent moral conscience will be enough to overcome the failures of the institutions.