On September 18, 1787, the last day of the Constitutional Convention, Elizabeth Willing Powel, a wealthy and influential Philadelphia Socialite, asked Benjamin Franklin to discern what form of government would emerge as a result of the Constitution becoming our governing instrument. The eminent Dr. Franklin responded, "A Republic if you can keep it." At the time, despite the ratification of the Constitution, nobody knew how the American experiment, guided by this foundational document of governance, would turn out. Franklin, a printer, scientist, discoverer of electricity, and indispensable American diplomat, had his own doubts.
Back then, there was no precedent in world history where the leader of a nation had voluntarily stepped down from power. King George III, President Washington's routed enemy, in homage to Washington's greatness and leadership during the Revolutionary War, stated incredulously, "If he does that" (referring to the voluntary relinquishing of power after his presidential term has elapsed), "he would be the greatest man in history." Well, as we all know, President George Washington did exactly that, setting the example for how the Constitutional Republic was to be run.
As a result of George's example and the almost 250 years that have followed, our Constitutional Republic has set an example to the world of how free people, allowed to prosper through self-governance with a capitalist foundation, aspire to a government that serves as an instrument to deliver liberty and justice for all of its citizens. However, the American example is now on suicide watch as the metastasizing socio-political disease of “Wokeness” is on the verge of destroying every institution in America.
Recently, Target Stores, like many other corporations, governmental agencies, and workplaces in America, has been pushing the woke transgender agenda through the promotion and sale of trans-friendly clothing and products. This promotion encourages a life and lifestyle that, if allowed to metastasize, will drastically harm the most vulnerable portion of our population: Our Children. Target's hawking of the "trans-friendly" lifestyle is an expression of its support and participation in the broader "Woke" Movement, which has a core mission to destroy America.
The transgender movement has nothing to do with enhanced freedom of choice.
This perverse movement has been designed to create a world where there is no such thing as objective reality. If a biological male wakes up and claims to be female, then that is what they are. The destruction of objective reality is a cornerstone of Marxist thought and fundamental to the Orwellian world where language is perverted to suit the needs of those in power.
Once you can coerce society to believe that a biological male is female just by thinking so, you can convince them that objective evil is good and objective good is evil.
Wokeism, as a socio-political disease, has infected our Constitutional Republic on a massive scale. Job interviews, academic interviews, and interviews related to most open opportunities now often contain questions that require applicants to swear fealty to race, gender, identity, and political issues rather than qualifications that are relevant to the opportunity being applied for.
The metastasis of this socio-political disease is rendering meritocracy, competence, work ethic, brainpower, and all historically germane criteria completely irrelevant. Should the rejection of meritocracy criteria become fully embedded in our critical decision-making systems in Business, Government, Higher Education, and all places where actual brain power is required, our institutions and enterprises will fail, and along with them, so goes America...
However, there is a glimmer of hope… The backlash against Target's promotion of transgenderism, along with what appears to be a rising tide of protest against woke policies, could be the 21st-century sound of those First American Muskets at Lexington and Concord that sounded the “Shot Heard 'Round the World”.
The Destruction of America is the bullseye on the Target of woke lunacy, let’s make sure that they miss the mark!
-Emes