The conservative today might be flummoxed by the sudden appearance of all manner of popular society-destroying ideologies that seem to have appeared overnight. Critical Race Theory infecting our schools, Environmental Social Governance (ESG) scores infesting our largest corporations. Mumu-wearing Chief Diversity Officers at most any corporation of size. The insanity of boys calling themselves girls so they can get a worthless zinc medal and strip young women from athletic scholarships. And then there’s the military canceling rifle training in favor of white guilt indoctrination.
How did this happen all of a sudden?
Well, it didn’t happen all of a sudden. It has taken years. Decades, even.
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We have chickens on our farm. Amazing animals, God’s gift to humans. A few months ago I started discovering dead hens in the henhouse. Maybe one every few weeks. So I installed a camera to see what done them in. Turns out there are rats. I’ve never seen a rat in all of my wanderings of our property, but they are obviously there.
Rats are pretty smart as far as rodents go. They are masters at understanding their threats (me), and also their food sources (chicken feed and eggs).
The rats will discover a resource-rich environment and create an intricate array of burrows and other underground passageways over a period of weeks or months. They’ll multiply, as parasites do, and then, when the time is right, they’ll use their numbers to infest the target. In this case, our chicken coop.
By the time I realized that there might be an invisible predator, the camera found the rats. Dozens of them. They came out under cover of night, eating the chickens’ food and dispatching injured but otherwise recoverable hens. And eating their eggs. My eggs. They only came out at night, which is why I never noticed them.
At that point, I declared war on rats. I killed hundreds of them over the next couple of days and installed mitigations to make sure to keep them in check.
Now back to our current society. This is what has happened in this country over the past few decades. The rats are at today’s universities. There, tenure-protected professors spout Marxist theories, having quietly infested academia first, grown rich on the government-backed student loan money coming into their increasingly expensive schools. The universities were ripe for the infesting, because most of the kids, who were told that they must go to college, were looking for some major to justify their presence.
Then, the graduates of the universities, fresh with their Marxist indoctrination and degrees that were worthless in the market (e.g., gender studies, black studies, women’s studies, Islamic studies, environmental social justice; you get the point), had to get a job to pay for the student loans they used to fund their degrees. So where can they get a job that doesn’t require them to ask if you’d like fries with that?
It turns out that corporate America was looking for people to staff their human resources departments, which were under more and more government regulation concerning all kinds of new rules.
It was a match made in Rat Heaven. People indoctrinated in Marxist ideology got sweet corporate jobs where they could put their otherwise worthless humanity degrees to work.
These rats, then, began infiltrating the public- and private-sector HR departments. At some point, in just the last few years, started coming out of their SJW crap-infested burrows and got emboldened by the other rats who had also infected government agencies, the military, the corporate media, and big tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon.
Fortunately, I was able to use a shovel and poison to get rid of the rats infesting my chicken coop. But how do we get rid of the rats infesting our society?
Just like the rats in the chicken coop, the woke social-justice rats that are infesting our society took advantage of the fact that people were looking the other way while they increased their numbers and infected every part of the national, and even the western-world, coop.
So what’s the solution to this infestation? Obviously, we can’t poison them or fill their burrows with carbon monoxide (worked great for rats; I have video). Rather, I think there are some tools we have to combat this not-so-sudden infestation. Mocking works great, as they can’t compete with that. Showing that the Emperor has no clothes, or that he is wearing bell bottoms or puffy-sleeve shirts that are way out of fashion. Or wearing white after Labor Day. I guess that’s all mocking as well.
All they can do, which they are very good at, is to use their media influence to suppress and cancel any attempt at mocking. They call it misinformation, disinformation, or some other rat-like terminology.
The best way we can compete is to commune with like-minded people who see the rats for what they are, and show our friends that they are not alone and that we, the vast majority of people, can resist the infestation. Remember that the rats, while they are scary looking and have a bad reputation, are just little rodents who scurry when the light is shone upon them.
Keep the light shining and hold true to your natural Rights. Don’t let them take those rights from us.
I’ll probably always have a rat or two around the chicken coop. But with constant diligence and careful observation, I can keep these destructive parasites from negatively affecting myself or my family and friends. The same goes for the human rats infecting our peaceful society.
