Culture Is Downstream from Politics Too

Culture Is Downstream from Politics Too

May 5, 2023 | Politics & Government

Looks like I’m on a politics role of late. Always keep this in mind: if you want politics not to be important in your life, it first has to be very important. Our enemies on the left and the Uniparty deep state want to control and rule over us, and we fought a revolutionary war 240 years ago to not be ruled by a king, but to rule ourselves. It is now time to take back our rule, and as Christians it is important that we understand the interplay of culture and politics, something it’s taken me many decades to understand.

The late great Andrew Breitbart was famous for saying that politics is downstream from culture, meaning our entertainment, education, media, etc., determines our politics. That is of course true, but in fact one-sided. Just as significantly, culture is downstream from politics. This is something conservative Christians, and conservatives in general, either miss or completely dismiss. I know I did until not too long ago.

When I became a born-again Christian in the fall of 1978, I was apolitical, knew nothing about it. I was only 18, so that’s understandable. It was coming across Francis Schaeffer’s The God Who Is There a couple years later that made me realize I was a conservative, and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 confirmed it. Given my penchant for grandiose ambition, after I graduated I figured I would change the world through politics. That didn’t last long. Living in southern California at the time, I got involved in the 1984 campaign of B-1 Bob Dornan for congress in Orange County. While Bob and his wife and staff were great, I got completely disillusioned with the Republican Party in California. The so-called moderates despised the social conservatives and were determined to shut us out of the party, and many of those I met were not attractive characters. That hasn’t worked out real well for the Republican Party in the once great state of California. Politics as a career option was no longer something I saw myself doing.

While I was no longer involved in politics, I still voted and thought the conservative movement was the means to real political and cultural change in the country. Only, there was really never any change in our direction. We’d put our hope in this or that politician, and be continually disappointed. In 2000, one of those politicians was George W. Bush, and in hindsight that was a big mistake. I was glad he was reelected in 2004, especially with Republican majorities in both houses of congress. Did anything change, of course not, but just like golf, politics seemed to be hope over experience. Then in the 2006 midterms we got wiped out. After 20 years of putting my hope in politics, nothing had changed for the better. That’s when I had my cultural epiphany.

I’d put my hope in politics for cultural change, not realizing the dynamic between the two. As Christians and conservatives we’d lost the culture first as it secularized, then that led to political defeat. So, I decided we needed to re-focus on the culture, and I started a non-profit to fight for cultural change called The Culture Project. I got a few guys on board and we did some conferences and writing and things, but it basically went nowhere. I was glad to see, though, over the next years that Christians and the conservative movement in general was finally starting to understand the importance of the culture in the battle for America. Politics, however, is the distribution of power in a society, and I realized in due course that just focusing on culture was naïve. Those who have power drive policy which in due course drives culture. How does it do this?

Throughout my life I’ve heard non-Christians declare that “you can’t legislate morality.” They clearly don’t understand that laws are morals backed up with the force of the state, so legislation is morality. And what is morality? Right and wrong, and laws are about what is right and wrong, morality, passed by legislators as the elected representatives of the people. What is perjury but thou shalt not lie. In this way laws do reflect the people, but law is also a teacher, it educates and instructs in what is right and wrong, in other words morals.

As secularism slowly took over the culture in the twentieth century, the laws began to reflect this. But secularism, like wokism in our time, was driven from the top down. It wasn’t average Americans who took prayer out of government schools, but lawyers, eventually nine of them who sit on the Supreme Court. It wasn’t average Americans who thought dismembering babies in their mothers’ wombs, literally tearing them limb from limb, was a good idea, a constitutional “right,” but lawyers, and again, eventually nine of them who sit on the Supreme Court did. In due course because of these laws (which a court has no constitutional right to pass), Americans came to accept that God wasn’t relevant to public life (the lie of the separation of church and state), and abortion is merely a “medical procedure” like any other.

In this way as laws are passed and courts distort laws or make them up, the plausibility structures of the people are affected. What seems real and normal, right and wrong, are changed. Homosexuality is just one very obvious example among many. First homosexuals and their lobby pleaded for tolerance. That was first given, then codified into law (at the same time becoming ubiquitous in culture, movies, TV, etc.—it’s a symbiotic relationship). Next it was insisted we accept it as normal as sex between two people of the opposite sex. Then it was demanded we celebrate it as wonderful and good. Anyone who didn’t was a bigot and hater. It was this process in law and culture that quickly made “marriage” between two people (why only two, we’re not told) of the same sex culturally acceptable, and now “the law” in all 50 states.

If we’re to counter this, then Christian morality must be codified into law, as it once was in America. Secular morality took over the policy and law in the latter half of the twentieth century and given us the disaster of the twenty-first. There is no such thing as political or moral neutrality. Some version of morality has to rule a society, and if it isn’t Christian morality, it will be anti-Christian. There is no escaping this fact of existence. Christians have been beaten into submission, sometimes literally, into believing our faith and worldview can’t impinge on the public square, separation of church and state and all that. That’s a lie of the devil. This won’t be easy, given we’ve ceded the public square to our enemies, but if we don’t things will only get worse.

 

Charlie Kirk: The Best Assessment of the Political Battlefield and our Marching Orders

Charlie Kirk: The Best Assessment of the Political Battlefield and our Marching Orders

Apr 30, 2023 | Politics & Government

I try not to delve here into politics too often, but we live in perilous times when politics just won’t leave us alone, and the days of us expecting others to save us from the bad guys is over. Also, Christianity has been consistently losing culturally and politically since the turn of the 20th century, and those days are over. They must be over if we’re to have a country that resembles America, liberty and justice for all, for the generations to come. If our Christianity doesn’t affect the society in which we live in ways that honor God and lead to human flourishing, that’s a Christianity our forefathers would not be familiar with. For the Christian everything is spiritual, including the dirty business of politics.

All of this is why I would encourage you, strongly, to listen to the first hour of Charlie Kirk’s show from last Tuesday (I’ll explain why in a moment). To give it context, I have to share a story I’ve told many times, but it’s more important than ever for those of us who refuse to give up America to Marxist woke revolutionary totalitarians.

After the election of 2020 was egregiously, in-your-face-stolen from President Trump, I was deeply depressed. It wasn’t just that election fraud was committed, but that Democrats and RINO Trump hating Republicans didn’t care who knew it. Then if anyone was foolish enough to question the purity of the election, they were called delusional conspiracy theorists, and cancelled post haste. This response of the corporate leftist media and political establishment was enough to prove the election was in fact stolen.

In God’s providence I stumbled upon Steve Bannon’s War Room, and as I always say, he got me out of the fetal position, and to mix metaphors, he talked me off the ledge. More importantly, he gave me hope for the future of our country for the first time in my adult life, literally. The reason is that he preaches agency, that we can change things. We are free beings, not slaves or robots, or pinballs batted around by forces beyond our control. And all it takes to change things is action, action, action! The days of sitting on the sideline and complaining and voting as if that would accomplish anything are over. As “they” say, desperate times call for desperate measures.

I don’t care if you can’t stand the sound of Donald Trump’s voice, or spit on the ground when you hear his name: this isn’t about Donald Trump! MAGA is a movement that started in Europe with Brexit prior to his election, and began earlier in America with the Tea Party movement in 2009 in response to the election of Barack Obama and the Uniparty destruction of our economy. That movement was stillborn, but became MAGA and Trump was the right man at the right place at the right time to ride the wave. All the conservative Trump haters must at least thank God he saved America from Hillary Clinton, and they can thank him too that Roe was overturned.

I’ve written recently on the triumph of secularism and leftism, and how those peas in a pod bring death and destruction in their wake. We are in the rushing torrent of several hundred years of the growth of their ideas in Western culture, and the pair have achieved their apex in this third decade of the 21st century. In this is our opportunity because things are so bad it is causing tens of millions of Americans to finally wake up to the threat. And frankly, I’m tired of doomers whining and moaning about how bad things are. That’s another thing I learned from Bannon. We are in an existential war, culturally and politically, for America and Western civilization, and either we fight like it or go meekly to the gulags our enemies are preparing for us. Which brings me to the American Revolution.

Thomas Paine at the lowest point of the war wrote these immortal words in his pamphlet, The American Crisis, and they speak as powerfully in our day as we fight to take back our country, as they did in theirs to found it:

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

These words turned a doomer and defeated army into victorious warriors against the most powerful military the world had ever known. I believe the odds against the American Founding generation were far more daunting than against us, but way too many on our side speak and act as if things are hopeless—they are not!

Now to Charlie Kirk. Again, please watch it. He clearly articulates that our enemies, the Democrats, are playing a different game than Republicans, a Marxist revolutionary game. While our team, the Grand Old Party, gets out the Tiddlywinks, the Democrats are playing MMA, and they fight to kill, remember that, take no prisoners. As Bannon always says, they play smash mouth politics, they play to win. We play representative republic niceties and we lose, all the time. Kirk explains all this, most importantly, how we win, clearly, better than anyone I’ve heard or read, by far.

Since the stolen election I call the conservative establishment (magazines, think tanks, consultants, etc.) Con Inc. because we were all conned by them for decades, that they really wanted to change things. In fact, all they wanted, and did, was conserve the secular and progressive gains of the last one hundred plus years. Con Inc. is a grift, and they caused me for entirely too long to be defeatist and depressed. That Fox News (which we haven’t watched in three years, thank God) would summarily dismiss Tucker Carlson like a minimum wage laborer is evidence where their loyalties lie.

My eyes, as for many of us and tens of millions of Americans, are fully wide open now, and as the great Roger Daltrey sang, We won’t get fooled again! No, no!

The Triumph of Leftism and the Destruction of America’s Once Great Cities

The Triumph of Leftism and the Destruction of America’s Once Great Cities

Apr 28, 2023 | Politics & Government

In 2014 I took a business trip to San Francisco, and was excited because it had been a long time since I’d been there. I also had wonderful memories of visiting the city when I was a child on family vacations, and it’s one of the great cities of the world. Thus I had no idea my reaction this time would be disgust. I couldn’t walk outside the hotel without being accosted by what we now call a homeless person. In the olden days when we didn’t give people excuses for aberrant behavior, we called them bums, and the bums were everywhere. On the way to the airport for the trip home I asked the driver why, and he said the city council pays them, that’s why. Guess what happens when you subsidize perverse behavior? You guessed it, you get more of it! Go figure.

As I often say, everything the left (progressives, Democrats, socialists, all Marxists) touches turns to excrement (it’s a family blog). Progressives over one hundred years ago began with the best of intentions. Science and human knowledge had advanced to such a degree by the early 20th century that many thought no problem was beyond the ability of “experts” to solve. Something new called “scientific management” was all the rage, and if any body of knowledge had science attached to it, every obstacle to human betterment could be overcome. Only it didn’t quite work out that way.

The progressive era began with Teddy Roosevelt, but it didn’t start to become the monster it is today until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, and even then it didn’t make real headway until Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. Contrary to the accepted progressive version of history, the New Deal did not get America out of the Great Depression. In fact, and you won’t learn this in our government schools, unemployment in 1939—after eight years of New Deal “solutions”— was worse than it was in 1931 before Roosevelt became president. And the national debt grew more in those eight years than in the previous 150 years of America’s existence. Government, bureaucratic “experts’” response to the Depression was an abysmal failure, just like every other bureaucratic “experts’” response progressives have foisted on us ever since. If it wasn’t for World War II we might still be in the Great Depression!

The next great progressive experiment came when Lyndon Johnson declared “War on Poverty” in 1964. Only government bureaucratic “experts,” and the academics who feed their delusions, could believe it’s possible to rid America of poverty with government programs, but that was what they declared. What have their good intentions and over $30 trillion bought us? No more poverty? Human flourishing? Hardly. In fact, exactly the opposite. Broken families and dysfunctional cities are everywhere government largess has gone. Prior to Johnson’s “Great Society” upwards of 80% of black children were born to a married mother and father. Today, over 70% are born out of wedlock. Talk about a recipe for disaster. Kids who grow up in households headed without a father are far more likely to be poor, quit school, get pregnant as teens and end up in jail.

And if this didn’t create enough death and misery, the liberal lefties decided to turn themselves into cultural Marxists, and embraced the woke insanity that has enveloped American culture. We are now seeing the results in America’s once great cities when progressivism is taken to the next level of Marxist revolution. While some leftist progressives really do think it is compassionate to go easy on minority criminals, and that they are doing a virtuous thing, others are true believing Marxists who hate America and want to bring it down to create their progressive, Marxists, socialist Utopia. Nobody knows what that looks like because going back to Marx himself, no Marxist-communist has ever defined it. What they all know and are convinced must happen is that the current bourgeois capitalist traditionalist (read Christian) society must be torn down. In blue cities everything is going as planned.

Marxism as a cultural woke contagion has to be pure Satanic evil because to normal people it’s incomprehensible. The obsession with racial diversity and gender equality and identity (LGBTQXYZ), and environmental, social, and corporate governance (aka ESG) bring death, destruction, destitution, and misery wherever it goes. One of the great mysteries of this evil is that woke district attorneys in blue cities (many supported with the money of George Soros) change sentencing guidelines for hardened criminals so they get out of jail more easily. And what do these people do when they get out of jail? Commit more crimes! Who could have predicted that! The elegant perversity of this is that these leftists somehow believe that tolerating decadence, destruction, and chaos is compassion, and those who opposes such perverse tolerance are bigots. I mean, there has to be a devil because evil of this depth is beyond mere bumbling human imagination.

I thought San Francisco was bad in 2014, but now it is unimaginable. Elon Musk whose Twitter headquarters is in the city, and whose friend Bob Lee was recently murdered while visiting there, had this to say about the once great city:

Downtown SF looks like a zombie apocalypse. People who’ve not been there have no idea.

This, the poison fruit of progressivism (again, read Marxism).

Baltimore, a once vibrant and beautiful city I too visited several times years ago when it was still vibrant and beautiful now joins the zombie apocalypse:

Downtown Baltimore is plagued with shootings, carjackings, muggings, and out-of-control packs of teenagers wreaking havoc. Baltimore residents can thank five decades of Democrat politicians for mismanaging this once-thriving town.

Think about that, fifty plus years being run by Democrats, and it has been run into the ground. Watch the very short video of hundreds of young people running wild and it’s no surprise the city is dying and decadent.  

Then there is this short piece with the apropos title, “The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities.” The author writes about how Chicago kicked out its last mayor only to elect another mayor more radical and leftist than the last one! You might think people would connect the destructive policies of the leftist lunatics they elect to the destructive results they inflict, but alas they seem not to. And it’s not one or two Democrat run cities that have been ruined by leftist Democrat radicals, but all of them. The author points out the same is happening in Portland and Seattle, not mentioning that New York City is right with them. The Guardian, not exactly a right-wing rag, calls the homeless situation in Los Angeles, my once great hometown, a “catastrophe.”

Beyond the mad Satanic ideas of the woke leftists, Jesus tells us why this is all happening:

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

It is Christ or Chaos. I wrote recently about how the school shootings in Nashville where a transgendered woman murdered six Christians, three children, in cold blood is the triumph of secularism. A God-less society, secularism, is perfectly encapsulated in blue city America where Satan and his minions run rampant like kids in a candy store. Unlike most Christians and conservatives this all gives me hope. God’s judgment against sin is in a way revelatory, and many Americans are waking up. The battle is engaged against leftism and secularism in a way it’s not been since the 1960s spilled into history, and I’ll have some thoughts on this in my next post.

 

Truth Always Wins . . . . Eventually: Russell Brand Speaking Truth to Power

Truth Always Wins . . . . Eventually: Russell Brand Speaking Truth to Power

Mar 14, 2023 | Politics & Government

Who knew Russell Brand would turn into such a beast for truth! I recently wrote about the inevitable fall of the left because lies will always eventually be exposed for what they are, lies. This is happening now with the Covid scam among many other lies being exposed, and the J6 “insurrection” which in fact was an FBI “color revolution” set up. Regarding the latter, just last week Naomi Wolf penned an apology to conservatives about buying into the lie that J6 was an insurrection. She is an old school liberal who believes truth matters, and not narratives pushed by globalist Uniparty elites. And Steve Cortes published a piece with a nice description of how this elite lives on lies. He calls it The Cathedral of Lies, and this cathedral needs to be taken down brick by brick.

As for Brand, he is an old-fashioned lefty who who still believes in what the left used to believe, speaking “truth to power.” Now that all the power is controlled by the left be it government, corporations, or the culture, the left lies and uses “narratives” to push it’s ideology and shuts down any dissent and anyone who dares question it. The Uniparty, or the globalist ruling class, which includes all Democrats and way too many Republicans, is the power against the people, and they knowingly propagate lies to maintain it. It ain’t working! Truth will always win in the end because Jesus is the truth, and he is over all power in the universe, spiritual and temporal; He will not allow lies to triumph. Here are a few short videos of Brand on Bill Maher’s show and they’re worth watching as he speaks truth to power which nowadays takes guts.

Here he takes down the lies in the name of a virus.

Here is obliterates a lefty MSNBC host who is either delusional or lying in claiming this propoganda organ of the deep state is an objective media news source.

Here he comments on a portion of his appearancce and absolutely nails the corporatizing of politics which a grift and the MO of most politicians. Politicians are influenced more by corporate money (doners and lobbyists) than their constituents, whether they admit it or not, or more likely deny it. It’s a real problem. 

“The Elite Panic of 2022” and the Inevitable Fall of the Left

“The Elite Panic of 2022” and the Inevitable Fall of the Left

Mar 2, 2023 | Politics & Government

If you believe in truth, and more importantly, if you believe in He who is the Truth, you will have some sense that lies will always be exposed for what they are. Here is the truth: anything built on lies cannot endure. Light always overcome darkness. When light appears, darkness flees. It’s the nature of things.

It is impossible for that which is contrary to the created structure of reality to last, and God in his almighty sovereign control of all things will not allow it. It is my faith in God and the power of His Truth that gives me confidence that we are living in a time of great revealing. This began in the most unlikely of ways with the most unlikely person, Donald J. Trump, New York real estate billionaire and reality TV star.

It doesn’t matter what you think of the man, if you believe he’s a MAGA hero saving American, or everything his critics and enemies say he is. As Steve Bannon often says, you can spit on the ground when you hear his name, but something happened when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York City on June 16, 2015. Specifically, something happened to the left. The term as I use it covers all who and what we refer to as progressives, the media, Democrats, the deep state, globalists, and RINOs of various stripes, collectively the Uniparty. They are all to one degree or another cultural Marxists (now called wokeness), and Trump broke them. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it’s a real psychological malady. We can also refer to them in the title of the piece we’ll be discussing, as the elite. What exactly was this panic last year?

I heard Martin Gurri interviewed by Mark Bauerlein on the First Things Podcast discuss his article about this elite panic. It was gratifying to have someone confirm my conviction of the ultimate futility of the ruling class. Those who get their news and information only from “approved” sources will not realize a great awakening is happening, but for those who seek and utilize alternative, “non-approved” news sources (you know, the kind where you get “disinformation”), the awakening is all over the place. I believe this awakening is ultimately spiritual and will lead to the advance of God’s kingdom and the growth of Christ’s church. The four-year assault by the deep state on Trump was the beginning of my own awakening, but it wasn’t until the covid scam, then the blatant stolen election of 2020, and finally the J6 “insurrection” FBI setup that my eyes were completely wide open.

It’s stunning how naïve I’d been all my adult life now looking back at how obvious so much of the corruption was. It is my trust in our Almighty God that keeps me from the temptation of cynicism, which is a sin. Through all of this, including finding Steve Bannon’s War Room after the 2020 election debacle, I started becoming excited about the future possibilities of our country. Up to that point I’d pretty much been a doomer, glass half empty kind of person when it came to politics and culture. In fact, I often saw the glass as not only empty, but completely dry. One of the reasons is that the only thing conservatives seemed to do is conserve the liberal/progressive gains of the last hundred years. What I call Con (conservative) Inc. (the intellectual and information ecosystem of the conservative movement) sadly turned out to be a con.

We might call what Trump initiated the great elite crack up. The ruling classes hatred of Trump (because he threatens their grift, their money and power) was (and is) so great they can’t control themselves. So they would do anything to rid the political world of the man, including lie, cheat, and steal (elections). They would even go so far as to use a contagious virous to destroy him, which the deep state and leftist media is finally admitting came from a Wuhan lab in China (honest people knew this three years ago). The “Trump-Russia collusion” lies didn’t get the job done, or the impeachment lies, but a virus from China was the perfect opportunity to distort our elections beyond recognition and get him out of office.  That, my friends, is called desperation, and a sign of weakness. The enemies of America haven’t gotten any stronger in the last two years, and thus the article confirming my convictions from Mr. Gurri. Covid was when the ruling class-elite jumped the shark. From Gurri:

Fauci embodied a bureaucracy and political class that, with the active support of the media, had converted the public’s fear of infection into a principle of elite authority. Under this principle, only trained scientists can make projections and recommendations. The writ of government stretched as far as the boundaries of scientific truth—and those boundaries were, of course, determined by government agencies. It wasn’t just a question of specific policies like lockdowns and vaccine mandates. At stake was the restoration of the public’s habit of obedience that had gone missing during the Trump years.

How dare we not passively obey the dictates of the “experts”! Some of us knew this back in the spring of 2020, and never obeyed. I knew something was very rotten in Denmark when the NCAA cancelled March Madness. What? That was the beginning of the end of sports in my life. Even college and professional sports had gone corrupt. I blame a lot of what they did on the panic porn pushed by politicians and the media, but there was zero excuse to add going woke to their Covid missteps, and I was done.

You knew the elites were desperate to protect their lies when they invented the word “disinformation,” the dumbest propaganda word in the history of dumb propaganda words. Gurri addresses the ending of the mask mandate (speaking of dumb, and evil) and Barack Obama’s speech at Stanford University a few days after a Trump appointed judge (how dare she!) in Florida struck down the mandate. As Gurri puts it, for Obama disinformation “is a form of lèse-majesté—any insult to the progressive ruling class,” which Gurri refers to as “the guardian class.” They will protect us whether we like it or not. Obviously we don’t know any better, so free speech be damned! Then Musk bought Twitter. Uh oh. Gurri nails the elite ruling class delusion:

For a considerable number of agitated people, the goal of neutrality was an abomination. Suddenly, “free speech” became a code for something dark and evil—racism, white nationalism, oligarchy, transphobia, “extremist rightwing Nazis”—all the phantoms and goblins that inhabit the nightmares of the progressive mind. Self-awareness was the first casualty of this war of words. The Washington Post, owned by multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, solemnly preached the need for regulation “to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.”

We can file that under, you just can’t make this stuff up! As Gurri adds, “the itch to control what Americans can say online was equated with the defense of freedom. Granting unfettered speech to the rabble, as Musk intended, would be ‘dangerous to our democracy.’” That would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so dangerous. Gurri makes an astute observation:

In a vague and inchoate way, the progressive elites sense that they have power but lack authority. They live in dread of a reversal in the tide of history that will bestow the future to the worst kind of people and the bloody idols they worship.

This is the irony of the third decade of the 21st century in which we live. The left controls all the levers of cultural and much of the political power, and is at the apex of their societal influence, but in this their weakness is being exposed. Even “normies” (people not obsessed with politics) are getting it. In my favorite metaphor for rule by lies, their Berlin Wall is coming down.

 

North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park Shares Her Experience of Wokeness at Columbia University

North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park Shares Her Experience of Wokeness at Columbia University

Feb 18, 2023 | Politics & Government

I first learned of Yeonmi Park from Steve Bannon’s War Room. Her horrific story of growing up in North Korea and her harrowing escape to the West was hard to fathom, so I read her book, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, and it’s still hard to fathom. If anyone of us is tempted to complain about anything, I suggest reading her book. It shows us how trivial most issues we complain about, get frustrated and worry about, grow anxious about, really are.

She has a new book out called While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America, and she tells Bannon on this War Room interview of experiencing wokeness at Columbia University, supposedly one of the most prestigious universities in America, one of the vaunted Ivy League Schools. As much as her story of escaping a North Korea hell hole needs to be read to be believed, the story of her experience at Columbia needs to be heard to be believed. Cultural Marxism in the guise of wokeness has completely captured American universities and the irrationality is something to behold. Her comparison of the woke leftist indoctrination centers of American universities to North Korea is spot on. We can thank God they don’t have the totalitarian power of the Kim’s of North Korea, yet.