Yes, a captivity. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (hereafter, DEI) can properly be called a captivity.  Americans were held hostage by this alien ideology born in the claustrophobic classrooms of the Marxist credo for decades. Its noose has finally loosened.

So enveloping was this agitprop that the commanding heights of academe and conventional intelligentsia cast aside outdated things like free speech and launched a campaign of cancel culture, the flip side of Nazi book burning. For years, average Americans crouched in fear at the ubiquity of this Enemy.

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Universities are suspending research projects, canceling conferences and closing offices in response to a volley of orders from President Trump banning “diversity, equity and inclusion” across the United States government. The directives threaten vital federal funding and have thrown university leaders into disarray.

To avoid running afoul of the orders, which include “the termination of all discriminatory programs”, some school leaders have assumed a defensive posture on anything associated with DEI.

It seemed as though we were awaking from a nightmare. We had to pinch ourselves. Was its stranglehold abating?

But as the president severed its tentacles, the only thing he was doing was restoring simple common sense. But in the thick fog of Leftist disinformation, simple common sense begins to become uncommon. So uncommon that it soon becomes simply dangerous. Indeed, cause for arrest, as many pro-life folks discovered. Chesterton, as usual, was eerily correct when he wrote in Heretics:

The great March of destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street: it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream: it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.

Pause for a moment and savor the depth to which we have fallen. The Leader of the Free World compelled to promulgate a formal document declaring that only two sexes exist—male and female.

Mr. Chesterton, how prescient you were!

Not to appear melodramatic, but we did seem to feel the exhilaration of prisoners of Auschwitz as they were freed by the American GIs.  Recall the slogan over the gates of that death camp: Arbeit macht frei (Work makes you free). And inmates heeded The Lie until they were incinerated as a reward.

Similarly, the American people over the long stretch of their captivity. Over and over, the incessant message was drummed into our ears: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Its invocation was inescapable: in workplaces, government, kindergarten classrooms, Army and Navy, Fortune 500 boardrooms, universities and high schools, legacy media, and newspapers. This perverse ideology blanketed the nation like some toxic slime, leaving the conscience and right reason of Americans teetering.

Normal folks were terrified to speak openly, lest they be overheard and dismissed from employment, or worse. Without exaggeration, conditions in America approached the days of the Stalinist Soviet Union when one out of every two citizens worked for the KGB and children routinely reported anti-party speech of their parents to its agents.

When this tale is told to your grandchildren it will beggar belief. Since most rational men will be incredulous, let us rehearse just a few of the more bizarre tenets of this corrupt and corrupting ideology: The Russian Peace Thre... Ridenour, Ron Best Price: $26.98 Buy New $19.75 (as of 03:09 UTC - Details)

• A guide at the University of California, Irvine, became notorious for its discouragement of the idiom “kill two birds with one stone.” The problem for UCI was not that this hoary phrase is a worn-out cliché, but rather that it employed violent language. They replaced it with the bad rhyme “feed two birds with one scone.”
• Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand, during the pandemic sanctimoniously announced, “We continue to be your single guardians of truth. Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.”
• The mantra “disparate impact on black criminals” became the excuse to allow crime to run rampant. The blatant madness of the claim went unchallenged, unleashing eruptions of violence. But the irrationality of this nostrum was inescapable. For instance, if more college graduates were jailed for white-collar crime, should we cease arresting them because of “disparate impact”? If certain segments of a population are clearly seen to be committing crimes, it is not “disparate impact” to arrest them even though they represent a preponderance of a certain population.

George Orwell identified this agenda better than anybody before or since, first in essays in the 1940s and then in his novel 1984 which introduced Newspeak, a satiric lingua franca that showed how totalitarians impoverished language to crush freedom. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” says a character at the lie-infested Ministry of Truth. “In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

This beloved America of ours came close to becoming Amerika, a client wing of the Davos Global State.

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