a. Critical Race Theory (CRT)
1) What is CRT?
Critical race theory is an interdisciplinary academic field focused on the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, social and political laws, and media. CRT also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, and not only based on individuals’ prejudices. Wikipedia
2) Key premises
- Critical Race Theory makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life.
- CRT underpins identity politics, which reimagines the U.S. as a nation riven by groups, each with specific claims on victimization.
- CRT’s intolerance “normalizes” belief in systemic racism for the average American.
3) The Problem with CRT
Critical race theory is an offshoot of critical theory, the brainchild of the Frankfurt School, a group of 20th-century Marxists associated with the Institute for Social Research. In classic Marxist fashion, critical theory divides everyone in society into classes of oppressed and oppressors. It results in division, not unity.
Why does critical race theory peddle bigoted and obviously false assumptions about individuals based on their skin color? Not pure racial hatred. Racialism is a tactic, a tool used by critical race theorists to tear down American institutions. Their aims: abolish the nuclear family, abolish gender, defund the police, abolish the border, abolish prisons, abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, abolish ICE, abolish voter ID, abolish capitalism, abolish private/charter schools, abolish religious freedom, abolish free speech, abolish rights, abolish objective truth, abolish reality.
CRT destroys individual initiative and self-responsibility. It breeds a ‘victim’ mentality and division instead of inspiring people to strive to better themselves to the full extent of their abilities. Everyone is either a victim or an oppressor. It rewrites American history in those terms.
Democratic political agenda items are textbook critical race theory. We should reject its reduction of people to the color of their skin. It’s a tool with a dangerously clear purpose: to impose simple, unadulterated Marxism in the United States of America.
4) The Practice of CRT
The use of CRT has been pressed in schools, the workplace, the military, and the entertainment sector. Our not so young people have been indoctrinated in CRT for the last 50 to 60 years.
Critical Race Theory is Repackaged Marxism
b. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)
1) What is DEI?
DEI are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability.
2) So What is the Problem?
While the stated goals are good and sound like they are certainly a move in the right direction, in practice they become just reverse discrimination. They are programs that categorize individuals based on race or sex for the purpose of differential or preferential treatment. Placement or promotion again is based on race or gender, and not on the best candidate for the job. Additionally, DEI results in a wasteful bureaucracy that’s needed to administer the program.
3) The Practice of DEI
The practice of DEI has been imposed by the government on corporations, universities, the military, and the entertainment sector.
c. Environment, Social, Corporate Governance (ESG)
1) What is ESG?
Environmental, social, and corporate governance, is a set of considerations, including environmental issues, social issues and corporate governance that can be considered in investing. Investing with ESG considerations is sometimes referred to as responsible investing or, in more proactive cases, impact investing. Wikipedia
2) Where did ESG come from and why?
ESG has been evolving since the 1950’s.
- The discussion of corporations’ social responsibility vs. profit motives began in the 1950’s and has been evolving ever since.
- The investment implications of ESG factors and the promotion of sustainable investments that accounted for these began getting increased buy-in from companies. In 2011, Jean Rogers founded the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) to develop accounting rules that could reflect ESG’s impact on a company’s bottom line in a specific industry. At the World Economic Forum 2017 summit in Davos, over 140 CEOs committed to aligning their goals with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This whole movement came about as more people became concerned about social and environmental issues, like the BP oil spill, and demanded more corporate accountability. However it has morphed quite beyond this.
3) Who’s involved?
Basically, it’s global clubs (the largest being the World Economic Forum) of politicians and CEOs of enormous corporations who pledge to use corporate power to reduce fossil fuels. With Wall Street at the center, it has metastasized into a group of the world’s 500 largest corporations, including the world’s largest banks (Bank of America, Citi Bank, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley), world’s largest investment management companies, pension fund managers, insurance companies, international organizations, and big tech companies. It represents a merger of the private sector and government.
Klaus Schwab is the founder and director of the World Economic Forum. Other prominent names include Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, and Bezos.
The corporations that have signed on account for $55 trillion in assets and it’s expected to grow to $100 trillion by 2025.
4) How does this affect us?
If you control financial markets and access to capital, you can dictate to any industry how things will be run—a terrifying level of control!
Current Goals include:
- disinvestment in fossil fuels,
- cutting pollution from farming,
- reduce use of gas-powered cars,
- subsidizing wind, solar, and electric cars,
- fighting for social justice, racial and gender equity, DEI training, diversifying corporate bords, taking a stand on abortion, gun control, voting laws, and transgender rights.
- And the big one is to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
This is a shift in Western societies equal to the Industrial Revolution!
Biden has already ordered all federal agencies to rewrite their mission statement and goals to put these ESG goals at the forefront for their agencies.
Rating companies now make ESG ratings part of their scoring of corporations, and FICO says it will eventually be part of consumer scores. Ratings will also be given to countries and states.
5) Examples
- The Netherlands is the breadbasket of Europe, but it is already moving aggressively on the goals—cutting the production of nitrous fertilizers, bankrupting small farmers, concentrating farms into large conglomerates, and reducing the amount of food created!
- During the Covid pandemic, we saw truckers who were protesting government vaccine mandates, have their bank accounts and credit cards frozen and insurance cancelled.
- The tracking of ESG scores is already being done in China. This can control where a person travels to and how, what he spends and on what, and what he eats!
Corporations have become the enforcement arm of governments!
6) Major Problems Foreseen
Major decisions, such as the setting of goals, are being made by global elites, instead of in the public square or by those elected by the people.
It forces obligatory measures to reduce consumption. 24% of emissions come from agriculture, primarily due to synthetic fertilizer. But without the fertilizer there will not be enough food for the population. There will be food shortages! (Insect protein will be an $8 billion industry by 2030!)
Weather dependent renewables for electricity can not produce enough electricity so it will lead to electricity rationing. This leads to a chronic decline in the standard of living! Everything becomes more expensive due to “climate inflation”.
ESG is flouting democratic laws. Stereotyping will be rampant, as will be special “preferences”. And beyond this the entire system just doesn’t work! There is no evidence it creates a better world.
Control creates more control. And control creates dependent people. We will be left with all the lawlessness and abusiveness of a modern regulatory state. This will no longer be a democracy but a cartel of corporations who make all decisions of a moral and policy nature.
7) The New Religion
The global elites and government proponents of this NEW WORLD Order have the fervor of religious fanatics. No wonder they have such an unreasonable hatred of Donald Trump. He and his America First policies are the very antitheses of this control!
We may be more aware of the target on Trump right now, but he’s right. When they get through with him, every American that has conservative values, defends our constitution, or puts the Bible at the forefront of their decision-making will be next in line. And it isn’t a matter of Democrats vs. Republicans, as we have seen with our current congress. Many who call themselves Republicans are so in name only.
The rest of the world is already much further down the line towards this goal than we. If we capitulate, there will be nothing else in the way.
The Shadow State by Epoch TV
(This is crazy! How did this happen in such a short time? See How Did We Get Here?.)