{"id":61313,"date":"2020-11-01T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61313"},"modified":"2020-11-01T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:22:11","slug":"61313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61313","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

History Demands We Wake Up the Woke<\/a><\/p>\n

Editorial cartoonist Branco recently designed artwork showing an Antifa donkey with BLM explosives in its hand threatening America with, \u201cBiden wins or the country gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first blush, it seems extreme. But is it?<\/p>\n

Most liberal \u201cwoke\u201d do not participate in violence. But their blind silence on riots and authoritarianism perpetrated by their fellow leftists is a mindless stab in the heart of their own future liberty.<\/p>\n

They refuse to view anything that doesn\u2019t fit what they believe is their compassionate narrative, and seem oblivious to the human cost of socialism and its better-dressed uncle, communism. Thinking Constitutional protections only apply to them, they holler \u201clove not hate\u201d while normalizing censorship and threats to anyone who disagrees with their left-wing talking points.<\/p>\n

It is almost as if history doesn\u2019t exist for the woke. Yet Americans who have fled oppressive regimes know the erosion of human rights at the core of leftism and socialism doesn\u2019t occur overnight.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Katarina Lindley,<\/a>\u00a0a successful family physician who is a leader in the osteopathic family physician community, and a board member for\u00a0DPC Action<\/a>, an organization supporting doctor\/patient-based healthcare reforms.<\/p>\n

She started out as Katarina Sokolic, a Croatian girl born in Soviet Yugoslavia in the 1970s behind the Iron Curtain of hunger and despair.<\/p>\n

Katarina learned about oppression early when instructed to keep her family\u2019s religious faith secret as it could cause her father to lose his job in a time of\u00a0unrelenting unemployment<\/a>. She escaped her homeland in its early\u00a0post-Soviet phase<\/a>, trading violence and suffering under a different leftist regime for America.<\/p>\n

According to Katarina, \u201cit took years to realize Yugoslavia was not \u2018utopia.\u2019 Eventually, everything was controlled by government, and freedom of thought was highly discouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Midwest physician \u201cElizabeth Williams\u201d fled Liberia at 14. Her family was chased off ancestral lands by leftist Liberian president Charles Taylor after her father spoke against Taylor\u2019s suppression of speech.<\/p>\n

As Elizabeth notes, \u201cfirst they didn\u2019t allow us to air our views. That led to their stealing our entire lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Left-wing violence destabilized Colombia for decades, and led to wholesale\u00a0murder<\/a>\u00a0of hundreds of thousands and displacement of millions. Young \u201cEnrique Velez,\u201d who now lives in the Washington, DC area, recalls \u201cmy family saw kidnapping and extortion of friends and family.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents made the difficult decision to join millions of displaced people after my father was held up and threatened by leftist groups. In America, we finally felt safe. Many families do not get the opportunity to flee here. We pray this country never experiences the same thing.<\/p>\n

These now-liberated Americans have real fear for our future. The obliviousness of the woke heightens that fear.<\/p>\n

Socialism was previously abhorrent to Americans, but has been sold to America\u2019s youth as \u201cprogress,\u201d thanks in part to the false, glorified view Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders presents of central control. It has permeated the ranks of the Democrat\u2019s progressive leaders.<\/p>\n

The socialism embraced by the wokes has a history of global oppression. Chairman Mao \u201cfreed\u201d Chinese peasants by murdering\u00a045 million<\/a>\u00a0of them. National Socialist Adolf Hitler harnessed his leftist power base by murdering\u00a0six million Jews.<\/a>\u00a0Wikipedia has an entire page dedicated to \u201cMass killing under communist regimes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Totalitarianism starts out as the rhetorically more benign socialism. First they come for books and newspapers, then guns, then property, then people\u2019s lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The woke may argue these horrors would never come to America. But if they opened their eyes and their minds, they\u2019d know it\u2019s already here, and they are ushering it in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Social and mainstream media are suppressing and censoring content critical of the Democrat candidate for president. Citizens participating in a New York Jews for Trump\u00a0convoy were attacked<\/a>\u00a0and children threatened with pepper spray by a leftist demonstrator. Liberal officials are closing houses of worship but allowing leftist riots.<\/p>\n

Antifa and Black Lives Matter are\u00a0radical left<\/a>\/Marxist<\/a>\u00a0groups who do not embrace peace. Their rioting and blind eye toward looting has cost\u00a0countless billions<\/a>\u00a0and robbed\u00a0minority and immigrant business owner<\/a>s of life savings and livelihoods. These groups and their woke supporters do not free people\u2014they enslave them to tyrannical mobs and oppressive government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

History is a lesson book. Americans who lived it, or understand it, must explain to the woke that they are sleeping through a montage that heralds an oppression which will eventually include them.<\/p>\n

Thanks to liberal educators and entertainment culture, young people are not even aware that socialism is the precursor of abject misery, and the loss of even the smallest of freedoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kat Lindley says America is a beacon of hope. Katarina Sokolic fears a nation that loses its liberties to the deliberately misinformed will never get it back.<\/p>\n

That would leave freedom seekers nowhere left to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History Demands We Wake Up the Woke Editorial cartoonist Branco recently designed artwork showing an Antifa donkey with BLM explosives in its hand threatening America with, \u201cBiden wins or the country gets it.\u201d At first blush, it seems extreme. But is it? Most liberal \u201cwoke\u201d do not participate in violence. But their blind silence on … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61314,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61313\/revisions\/61314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}