Woke Takeover of US Military Endangers Us All
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Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He served in the George W. Bush administration, first at the Securities and Exchange Commission and then at the State Department, and is the author of the book The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free. Read his research.
Dakota Wood is a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense and the editor of Heritage’s “Index of U.S. Military Strength. Previously, he served for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corp.
Senior Fellow, Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Fellow Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 11, Headquarters Regiment, 1st Marine Logistics Group, overlook the beach at Camp Pendleton, California, December 12 Lance Cpl. Adam Dublinske / U.S. Marine Corps
Key Takeaways
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was dismissed from his post after bashing and critical race theory.
The firing has drawn attention to the administration’s apparent intent to introduce wrong-headed and highly inflammatory Marxist ideologies into military ranks.
The relentless drive to enforce conformity within the military with a preferred leftist narrative is troubling.
A lieutenant colonel was dismissed from his post after bashing and critical race theory.
Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute Command Master Chief Logan Johnson leads Sailors in reaffirming the oath of enlistment during a stand-down for countering extremism in the ranks, March 2, 2021.
Key Takeaways
Recommending that sailors read books that trash the Constitution and denounce the country as irredeemably racist is not just absurd it’s downright dangerous.
Why recommend books staking out extremist positions when the Navy is newly embarked on an effort to drive political extremism from its ranks?
American sailors swear an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, “foreign and domestic.” We ask them to put their lives on the line to protect their country. Recommending that sailors read books that trash the Constitution and denounce the country as irredeemably racist is not just absurd it’s downright dangerous.
Coordination and Decomposition
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, April 9, 2021
We’re at a turning point in our history. America has practically adopted an official state ideology: Critical Race Theory (CRT), which holds that white privilege and racism are embedded in all institutions and cause inequality. Thus, practically unlimited government intervention is justified to remove racism. In practical terms, this means attacking whites, the group that created and sustains the United States.
One of President Joe Biden’s first acts was to eliminate the patriotic education project of the “1776 Commission.” Instead, teachers will promote Critical Race Theory and the “1619 Project” in public schools, and government bureaucrats will get official doses of CRT. SomeRepublicansare trying to keep Critical Race Theory out of schools, but I doubt they will succeed. Leftists are more aggressive than conservatives and are willing to hurt political opponents.