There does seem to be a correlation between the woke agenda and government largess. From Jeff Einstein at quolrm.substack.com:
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
The agitprop theater of the absurd — AKA the Woke Agenda — is little more than a gigantic money laundering scheme for the Western world’s oldest, most powerful, and most dangerous political institution: the Democratic Party. Every item on the Woke Agenda — from climate change to racial equity, from racial equity to gender equity, from gender equity to the battle against free speech, from the battle against free speech to perpetual war in the name of democracy and freedom — sends tens of billions of dollars to Democratic Party corporate, union, academic, and global NGO donors who, in turn, contribute billions in cash and in-kind services back to the Democratic Party in a classic money laundering clusterfuck.
Almost two centuries since the Democratic Party was founded in 1828, America is now a one-party town, comprised of woke institutional fiefdoms, all of which take their marching orders from and tithe directly to the Democratic Party. The pernicious wealth redistribution schemes of DEI and ESG and SDG — along with the compliance and enforcement mechanisms of the entire surveillance state, the censorship industrial complex, and every major federal agency — are now baked into the DNA of just about every major American and Western institution across the board, including just about every major corporation, university, and NGO.
In theory, wealth and power redistribution is not entirely without merit. Just as — in theory — communism and socialism are not entirely without merit. In practice, however, human nature always seems to intervene. The expansion of entitlement programs over the past few generations represents a mere tributary of a much larger river system and watershed, an engineered concession designed to obfuscate the fact that the primary redistribution of wealth and power — at least in the digital 21st century — always moves in the same direction: upward.
Every utopian vision ultimately turns dystopian. In the end, they all steal money and power from the poor and give the stolen money and power to individuals and institutions already far too rich and already far too powerful.
