Biden's Book Of Woke
When I hear Biden's statements, I hear him being used as a puppet of the woke. You can just tell when he parrots woke-isms, uses the lingo. That's not his lingo. It's lingo the elderly President dude has been given by his staffers to hit the marks of the woke-cult left.

Sean Illing of Vox talked to James Carville about Biden's first 100 days in office and Carville said:

"Wokeness is a problem and we all know it"

Yet, immediately after that headline -- quoting Carville -- he praises Biden for not doing exactly what I hear him doing every time he's quoted on the streamed news I listen to in the morning as I'm making coffee.

For example, Biden said our country was rife with "systemic racism." It used to be: in the days of segregation and Jim Crow.

What is systemic racism? "Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of racism that is embedded through laws within society or an organization."

Um, though people are trying to reinstitute segregation (sick fucks!) in schools and elsewhere, no, we do not have pervasive racism, embedded throughout our society through laws that prevent people of certain shades or in certain groups from getting ahead.

There are, yes, episodes of racism, and I loathe them, and find them heartbreaking -- as I do with other sorts of discrimination -- but that is not the same thing as systemic racism. To say that is a facet of our society is simply untrue -- and dismaying when it comes from a President parroting woke-speak that I suspect he doesn't truly have a handle on.

Bits from the Illig/Carville interview:

James Carville
Honestly, if we're just talking about Biden, it's very difficult to find something to complain about. And to me his biggest attribute is that he's not into "faculty lounge" politics.

Sean Illing

"Faculty lounge" politics?

James Carville

You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like "Latinx" that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like "communities of color." I don't know anyone who speaks like that. I don't know anyone who lives in a "community of color." I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in ... neighborhoods.

There's nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you're talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it's not.

Sean Illing

Is the problem the language or the fact that there are lots of voters who just don't want to hear about race and racial injustice?

James Carville

We have to talk about race. We should talk about racial injustice. What I'm saying is, we need to do it without using jargon-y language that's unrecognizable to most people -- including most Black people, by the way -- because it signals that you're trying to talk around them. This "too cool for school" shit doesn't work, and we have to stop it.

On to wokeness:

James Carville
Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It's hard to talk to anybody today -- and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party -- who doesn't say this. But they don't want to say it out loud.

Sean Illing

Why not?

James Carville

Because they'll get clobbered or canceled. And look, part of the problem is that lots of Democrats will say that we have to listen to everybody and we have to include every perspective, or that we don't have to run a ruthless messaging campaign. Well, you kinda do. It really matters.

I always tell people that we've got to stop speaking Hebrew and start speaking Yiddish. We have to speak the way regular people speak, the way voters speak. It ain't complicated. That's how you connect and persuade. And we have to stop allowing ourselves to be defined from the outside.

More:

James Carville
And maybe tweeting that we should abolish the police isn't the smartest thing to do because almost fucking no one wants to do that.

Here's the deal: No matter how you look at the map, the only way Democrats can hold power is to build on their coalition, and that will have to include more rural white voters from across the country. Democrats are never going to win a majority of these voters. That's the reality. But the difference between getting beat 80 to 20 and 72 to 28 is all the difference in the world.

So they just have to lose by less -- that's all.

Sean Illing

So what do you want the Democrats to do differently besides not having people peddle politically toxic ideas like abolishing the police? ...

...James Carville

We won the White House against a world-historical buffoon. And we came within 42,000 votes of losing. We lost congressional seats. We didn't pick up state legislatures. So let's not have an argument about whether or not we're off-key in our messaging. We are. And we're off because there's too much jargon and there's too much esoterica and it turns people off.

I think people are looking for reasonable centrism. Not everybody but a lot of people.

Sadly, the Libertarians, over and over, run unelectables.

As for centrism, our best hope for it is hoping little gets done.

Another small ray of hope is a growing movement of people standing up against the woke, racist crazy. Not everyone can do that -- some can't afford to lose their job and have their children starve and be living in a tent -- but I hope that all who can will consider doing it.