{"id":572993,"date":"2021-06-24T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572993"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:36:41","slug":"wokeism-has-awakened-the-most-formidable-opponent-the-american-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wokeism-has-awakened-the-most-formidable-opponent-the-american-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Wokeism Has Awakened The Most Formidable Opponent: The American Family"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwokeism-has-awakened-the-most-formidable-opponent-the-american-family%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=572993&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\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233449821-1-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>There are many prescriptions floating around for putting out the wildfire of wokeism that\u2019s scorching our society and leaving a largely irreparable trail of devastation. Several are solid. But a large number are well short of great, for they\u2019re either off target or unrealistic. One critical tactic, or rather area of emphasis, has been largely ignored, until now.<\/p>\n<p>To fight the left\u2019s ruthless campaign to twist the minds of America\u2019s youth and forever change America, conservatives must unite behind the essential building block of American society: the American family. In short, we must take control of school boards to put an end to ideological indoctrination in the form of the teaching of anti-American principles in classrooms across the country. If we do that, we will reclaim our country\u2019s future and the dream that America promises for our children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Americans of all political stripes responded to the Obama administration\u2019s massive government overreach by forming what became known as the Tea Party. This grassroots movement was concerned about socialized medicine, tax increases, trillion-dollar deficits, and bailouts for the largest and most corrupt financial institutions in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have always cared about protecting their hard-earned money from government waste and public programs inimical to their values, and rightfully so. But you know what Americans care infinitely more about? Their children. And woke culture warriors, who make up the left\u2019s vanguard, just decided to wage the most aggressive and offensive war on America\u2019s children at exactly the worst possible time for the Democratic Party. The left should get ready for a movement that is far stronger, far bigger, and far angrier than the Tea Party was at its acme.<\/p>\n<p>What started as a handful of small groups of parents in pockets across the country has now reached fever pitch. It\u2019s tough to keep up with all of the viral videos of parents confronting their local school board officials over the woke \u2014 and, frankly, evil \u2014 agenda being thrust upon our children. The complaints stem from incontrovertibly bigoted Critical Race Theory curricula to the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019s sordid fake history, known as the 1619 Project, to the sexualization of our youngest children with books that teach carnal acts and supply unscientific ideas about gender and biology.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives, unfortunately, left the door wide open for these destructive teachings to make their way into our classrooms and communities. For decades, teachers\u2019 unions have heavily invested in local politics, resulting in left-wing takeovers of some of our country\u2019s most influential school boards. Because of this, these school boards now shield and protect corrupt teachers and administrations rather than holding them accountable to the parents who pay their salaries, as originally intended. And because of massive financial backing of teachers\u2019 unions, school board officials are neither afraid of losing elections nor backing away from their promotion of the woke agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no exaggeration to say that school board officials feel invincible. It\u2019s why they are doubling down on radical curricula, and, further, attacking not only parents, but also teachers who are resisting it. In Loudoun County, Virginia, a Democrat stronghold, school board officials have been caught red-handed compiling lists of parents and teachers who oppose Critical Race Theory in order to harass them, and, in the case of the latter, get them fired. Loudoun County officials were recently seen interrupting distraught parents by, ludicrously, telling them to fix their masks. Alas, it should come as no surprise that the Loudoun County School Board ended this week\u2019s meeting early and watched as police arrested parents who refused to leave the meeting. Their actions exemplify their hubris.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the woke agenda is a disdain for everyday people. Woke leftists truly believe that everyone besides themselves are morons. As such, they think they can fool us. They think they can control us. They think they will never be held accountable.\u00a0This itself reveals that the woke agenda is anti-American. The entire premise of the American experiment of self-governance is that regular citizens know more than the elites and \u201cexperts.\u201d Such a representative democratic system allows the people to stand up and serve as a check against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>If we can\u2019t stop schools from teaching our kids that all white people are racist, that women can have penises and men can have babies, and that America is an irredeemably nefarious imperialist enterprise, then we certainly won\u2019t be able to stop tax increases or socialized medicine. If this new conservative movement fails, it means the American experiment is destined to fail.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges are significant, but my bet firmly remains with the Founders and everyday Americans \u2014 parents and family advocates who love their children and their country more than anything else. This fight is the definitive one, for it\u2019s about the souls of our children and, thus, the future of our nation. \u201cWoke\u201d is the perfect way to describe the left\u2019s insane and malevolent agenda, because it just stirred the most powerful of all sleeping giants: the American family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Terry Schilling is the president of American Principles Project and founder of APP\u2019s Big Family, a membership advocacy group that organizes families in politics. To find out more, visit www.SaveTheFamily.app.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many prescriptions floating around for putting out the wildfire of wokeism that\u2019s scorching our society and leaving a largely irreparable trail of devastation. Several are solid. 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