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On April 18, 1775, the great American patriot Paul Revere rode through the night to deliver his countrymen a simple warning: ‘The British are coming! The British are coming!’ Today, as an American pollster returning to spend time in the UK after several years, I bring you an equally urgent warning: ‘Woke is coming!’
Over the past decade we in America have seen two destructive forces creep up and poison our democracy, our society and even our economy: populism on the Right, and Wokeism on the Left.
The rise of populism has shredded the political fabric of the country. The rise of Wokeism is undermining the principles of economic freedom and meritocracy.
And thanks to social media, these forces know no borders, seas or oceans. Faith in democracy itself is at an all-time low.
We all know about the damage done by populism. Even today, about half of Republicans – a quarter of Americans – continue to believe Donald Trump is the legitimate President. They are objectively incorrect but they believe they are right and righteous. And that makes them dangerous.
But less well-known and potentially even more damaging is Wokeism.
A new list from ZUBY is going massively viral and Owen reads the list for your enjoyment.
To put numbers behind the terminology, 38 per cent of the UK population doesn’t know what ‘Woke’ means. Just over a third, 34 per cent, know nothing about ‘cancel culture’.
And if the remaining two-thirds of the population have heard of it, many think it’s about toppling statues or choosing your pronouns.
Some of the elite in this country claim Woke doesn’t actually exist, or that it’s just like any other pressure group, or that it is purely a political movement for electoral gain. There is some legitimacy to each assertion.