{"id":1706851,"date":"2022-10-22T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706851"},"modified":"2022-10-22T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:34:01","slug":"will-alexander-woke-whats-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-alexander-woke-whats-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Alexander: \u201cWoke?\u201d What\u2019s \u201cWoke?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-alexander-woke-whats-woke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706851&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3b54d10b-1940-4d7e-9369-3430647d38b4.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I work with a burly, no-nonsense construction guy \u2013 the site\u2019s superintendent. Having mastered the complexities of getting hundreds of homes built to blueprint, code, to budget, and on schedule, his time and energy are consumed with the ideas, tools, and construction principles that work. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The stuff that works is the stuff that matters. The stuff that doesn\u2019t work is a complete waste of time. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After decades in construction, \u201cwhat works\u201d is how he\u2019s wired now, and it\u2019s bled over into the way he sees life, including politics which, for the most part, is not rocket science. If it works, vote for it. If it doesn\u2019t, don\u2019t. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For him, getting caught up in the back-and-forth barking about overtly dumb stuff in politics, especially these days, is like trying to argue with some nut who\u2019s hell-bent on digging a trench with a spoon. It doesn\u2019t work. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWhatever floats your boat, buddy,\u201d he\u2019d say as he walks away, \u201cjust stay away from my construction site.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After a construction meeting last Friday, three or so of us lingered in small talk about things other than work. With his cell phone buried in calloused hands and legs outstretched to steel-toe boots so worn-in, they might as well be his feet, the \u201csuper\u201d looked up from his phone to chime in that he\u2019d just watched the new Top Gun movie. Twice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cSaw it, too,\u201d I said. \u201cTwice. Not a woke movie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He looked at me like I\u2019d just poured concrete over a finished floor. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWoke? What\u2019s woke?\u201d he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cYou know \u2013 woke,\u201d I said, thinking he didn\u2019t hear me. \u201cWoke,\u201d I repeated. He shrugged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The man had no clue what it meant. I was shocked but dared not contaminate his pristine disposition \u2013 a hard-working construction man focused exclusively on the things that matter. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The men he supervises are that way, too. They start work at the crack of dawn to dig, hammer, and erect whole communities from dirt and sweat, often exposed to a searing sun that bakes the site with 100-degree temperatures, leaving their bodies marred forever from the naked toil cemented into the building process. And they love it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Like their boss, they don\u2019t have a lot of time to chew and rechew the political cud of wokeology. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNever mind,\u201d I told him, realizing I had no short answer for woke, anyway. \u201cTrust me, it\u2019s not important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As we were getting back to work, he went back to staring at his cell phone, adoringly it seemed. His eyes were glued to a picture wallpapered to his homepage of him standing with his granddaughter. That little girl is the engine that fuels his toil. Important stuff. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I get that. But given the time, I would\u2019ve asked the superintendent to imagine being forced to build homes with plans he knew could never work. Suppose that the nut hell-bent on digging the trench with a spoon was there at the behest of company executives, pushed by the governor, funded by the legislature, protected by the courts, and praised by the President of the United States? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cSpoon-digger, your president has got your back!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What if new rules forced the superintendent to allow millions of termites to breach the borders of the house? And what if he were forced to hire special trenchers to tunnel deep beneath existing homes to destroy their foundations, then hire painters and decorators to cover it all up? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He knows that it would never work, but he\u2019s being forced to do it anyway, and he now feels like he\u2019s just entered the Twilight Zone. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That\u2019s woke.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is what\u2019s happening all over America today, and as ludicrous as it sounds, it\u2019s become as serious as a national heart attack. Border enforcement, energy, the economy, public education, checks and balances, the election system, the COVID response, criminalizing political differences, and race relations \u2013 none of it is working, and it\u2019s getting people killed. The woke response? More. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Most shocking, for me, has been soft-on-crime policies that expose so many hard-working Americans to violence and death \u2013 horrific, in some cases. And it\u2019s growing. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My construction meeting happened the same day murder suspect Joshua Reneau, 31,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/victim-dragged-to-death-in-inglewood-carjacking-identified-as-la-habra-man\/ar-AA1302Y7?cvid=3074bf3eb3c545fcaf5d6c9605c01688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carjacked<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Larry Walker, 63, in Inglewood, Calif., then dragged him under his SUV for two miles to his death after he became entangled in his seatbelt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That carjacking was like one that happened to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/23\/linda-frickey-73-killed-after-losing-arm-during-carjacking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linda Frickey<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, 73, a working grandmother in New Orleans. As Frickey took a break from work to put something in her car, four carjackers rushed the car and drove off, leaving her entangled in the seatbelt. She was dragged for a block as her clothes were being torn off. Realizing she was still attached, the carjackers slowed down to kick her out. That grandmother bled to death on the street, naked, with her arm severed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The meeting was also the same week 12 police officers were either shot or killed across the country, and the same day a disturbing\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/13\/chilling-video-shows-rape-suspect-abducting-girl-in-la\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveillance video<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0aired of a man walking a 14-year-old boy (initially reported as a girl) down a Los Angeles street, before forcing him into a park bathroom and raping him. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Minneapolis on Saturday \u2013 the epicenter of George Floyd\u2019s death and the defund the police movement \u2013 mayhem broke out outside The Gay 90s bar with one victim being beaten and kicked in the head by a group of men, fights between women, women twerking atop cars that blocked traffic and outnumbered police on horseback being harassed and cussed out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Since last year, car thefts in that city are up 38.4 percent, property crimes are up 14.8 percent, overall crime is up 15.9 percent, and 93 people were shot over the last year, according to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11322615\/Shocking-video-crime-ridden-Minneapolis-shows-crowd-harass-swear-POLICE-HORSE.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Since 2020, the homicide clearance rate dropped to 38 percent from 54 percent in 2016, the police force shrank from 900 to 560 in August due to retirements, resignations, and low recruitment, and 911 response times jumped to 14 minutes, from 11 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If the woke leadership in Minneapolis had simply enforced the law when protests crossed into violence, they could\u2019ve set an example to the rest of the country. Instead, Mayor Jacob Frey ordered the city\u2019s Third Precinct to evacuate after three days of violence, and that precinct \u2013 the city\u2019s symbol for law and order \u2013 was torched almost instantly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Worse, Gov. Tim Walz, like so many Democrats at the time, oozed white guilt. \u201cI will not patronize as a white man without living [your] lived experiences,\u201d he said. \u201cThe ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Some version of Minneapolis is happening throughout the country. But as any burly no-nonsense construction guy could tell you, \u201cThis stuff ain&#8217;t rocket science.\u201d You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish. Today, shockingly, we\u2019re rewarding criminals and punishing law-abiders. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two centuries of civility, painstakingly built with the brick and mortar of sweat and blood, gives political fools the luxuries they enjoy to destroy it. It\u2019s not just stupid, it\u2019s evil, and it\u2019s gotten to a place where we can\u2019t just ignore it. This is a cold war, and it is past the time average Americans wake up to the woke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While you can\u2019t blame hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Americans like the superintendent for cringing at the thought of cluttering their brains with the noise of today\u2019s woke politics, living as if it doesn\u2019t exist \u2013 these days \u2013 just won\u2019t work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work with a burly, no-nonsense construction guy \u2013 the site\u2019s superintendent. 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