After President Trump was reelected in 2024 some commentators were of the opinion that so-called Woke culture had been dealt a death blow.  They predicted an end to DEI programs, calls to defund the police, and all the Trans nonsense that had been running rampant.  We’ve since discovered that those commentators were wrong.

According to AOC (All Out Crazy), Woke hasn’t gone away, it’s just evolving.  In August, AOC announced that the Woke movement was changing, when she commented that, “Woke 1 was crazy.”  She took some heat for this statement from the crazies on her side of the aisle, because they took her comment as a rebuke.  The lapdog media took the comment as an announcement that the Left was going to moderate its positions to get back into the mainstream.

The notion that the far Left needs to come back toward the center of the political spectrum is at the heart of the battle going on in the Democrat Party between two equally repugnant factions; the crazy socialists, and the Democrat establishment.

When AOC announced the advent of Woke 2, the establishment Dems had hopes.  They knew that what was expected was not a real moderation of policies, but the old tried and true Democrat formula.  “Pretend to be moderate, get elected, and then go full bat shit crazy.”  But alas, the establishment Democrat liars didn’t get all that they wanted.

AOC described Woke 2 as a move away from virtue signaling, and a move toward more productive policies that would “mark wins for black people dealing with oppression, trans people, and working class people.”  And I bet you thought they were doing away with virtue signaling, didn’t you?

AOC is in a delicate position right now.  She’s both the head cheerleader of the Socialist Squad, and a serious candidate for elevation to the Democrat leadership.  Chuck Schumer is a dead man walking.  He’s trying to keep his job by walking a tightrope between the establishment Democrats and the Squad crazies, an almost impossible task.  Meanwhile, AOC and other Socialist maniacs are itching to mount a primary challenge for his Senate seat.  Indeed, the only thing holding AOC back is indecision whether she wants to run for the Senate or the presidency.

It turns out when AOC spoke of Woke 2, she was just hedging her bets.  She, much like Schumer, is walking that fine line between the DSA nuts, of which she is a founding member, and the establishment Democrats who she needs to cultivate if she’s going to move up in the Party.

The truth is, whether you call it Woke 1, Woke 2, or by any other name, the Woke bull crap really hasn’t changed.  If anything, Woke 2 may be twice as malignant as Woke 1.  The Woke 2 crowd indeed are evolving.  They’re evolving into better liars than they were during Woke 1.  Simply put, no policies have changed.  The DSA kooks simply have learned to pretend to be more moderate.

Don’t doubt me, there’s proof.  Woke 1 was ushered in by the death of a career criminal, George Floyd.  His death gave rise to the BLM riots, and the push for men in women’s sports.  It spawned the totally concocted Trans movement, based on the notion that people with a mental disorder, who represent maybe .001% of the population, were being discriminated against.  It launched the “defund the police” movement, and anti-ICE protests.

Now we have Woke 2.  Has anything changed?  No.  Woke 1 was sparked by the death of a career criminal.  Woke 1 embraced criminals and villified the police.  Under Woke 2, the police are still under attack.  Woke 1 valued illegal aliens over U.S. citizens.  Remember the fuss over illegal alien criminal Kilmar Abgrego?  As this is written, Woke kooks are protesting on behalf of another illegal alien career criminal, Oscar Begal, who was wounded by ICE after he rammed two government vehicles.  No change there.

Woke 2 supports “black people dealing with oppression, and working class people.”  But who’s oppressing them?  The first round of Trump tax cuts resulted in unprecedented wage gains for lower income people.  The second round removed taxes on tips, overtime, and social security, resulting in historically high median household incomes.  Every Democrat in Congress, including all the adherents to Woke 1 and Woke 2 voted against both tax cuts.  Woke 2 preaches about “affordability,” while its solution to that problem is raising your taxes by $5 trillion.  Now, that’s affordable.

If black folks are being oppressed by substandard schools and poor housing conditions, who’s responsible for that oppression?  Democrats have been running all the big cities (and running them into the ground) for at least six decades.  Inner city schools get the most government funding from State and federal sources.  That money is needed, but what are the Woke Democrats doing with it?  They’re responsible for running the schools that spend the most money and yet produce millions of students who can’t read or do math.

Woke 1 was for defunding the police and abolishing ICE.  That hasn’t changed with Woke 2.  We’re told Woke 2 began with the election of Mamdani in New York.  He’s gutted police budgets, and he continues to protect illegal aliens, to the detriment of the citizens who elected him.

As the midterm elections approach, the Woke 2 crowd has tried to fake moderation in order to get DSA maniacs elected to office.  Fakes like Abul El Sayed in Michigan keep talking about affordability, which is a real problem.  Prices are more than 20% higher than they were in 2021 due to Joe Biden’s 9% inflation rate.  That rate is down to 3% now, but people are justifiably upset.  Fuel costs, which were higher under Biden without any wars, are elevated now due to the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war, that has affected diesel fuel prices.

El Sayed and other Democrats promise to do something about affordability.  It’s an appealing promise, but like most things Democrat it’s all promise and no substance.  They rail against the very inflation that they created.  Inflation occurs from one and only one source – excessive government spending.  And the Woke 2 Democrat solution to the affordability problem is what?  Even more excessive government spending.  What could go wrong?

The DSA’s pet project is “Medicare for All,” a/k/a, single-payer healthcare.  If enacted, it would end all private health insurance, and would have Americans waiting months for medical care, like they do in Canada.  Not bad enough?  Here’s the topper.  The Woke 2 “affordability” Democrats haven’t mentioned that it would cost close to $5 trillion a year.  That’s on top of the trillions they want to spend on other socialist fever dreams, and on top of the nearly $40 trillion debt we’ve already run up.

If you’ve noticed that the Woke 2 plans are inherently contradictory, you’re right, but sadly, given the constant media drumbeat of leftist lies, their policies don’t have to make sense, they just need to sound good, and “everything’s free” sure sounds good.

I wish I could assure you the Woke 2 nuts won’t get away with their deceptions, but I can’t.  All I can do is leave you with the words of that noted philosopher, Donald John Trump, who presciently noted that, “Everything Woke goes to shit.”