“Woke”, stenosis for what was formerly known as “politically correct”, helped fuel a progressive policy based on the grievances which caused immense damage to American body policy, while filling young minds with an overabundance of historical nonsense. The New York Times Project 1619Who falsified the history of the United States by reading all our national history through the objective of the original sin of America, slavery, was the platonic form of Wokeery. He poisoned the school programs and subscribed to the policy of the impression of race which followed the murder of George Floyd.
Unfortunately, just when the grievance policy seems to lack gas on the American left, it appeared with revenge on the American right. Slogans like “we have been scammed” – which distorts the record for the most successful peacekeeping security architecture ever created (NATO), and which covered prices which could destroy the most successful economic growth engine in the world – illustrate a new grievance policy which is the Wokeery lippe. And in the form of crowds of social media, the right -wing grievance policy is alarming similar to the culture of the cancellation of the left.
It is not that the grievances are not real. Some are, and there is a moral obligation to approach them and remedy them. But the policy of grievances inevitably leads to the dissolution of political communities – or, just as insidiously, makes the political community difficult, if not impossible, to train.
Why could the Palestinian people not train and maintain an autonomous political community capable of making peace? Because like my friend, the late Arabist Fouad Ajami, put In 2001, “a long and dark winter went down on the Arabs … (who) abandoned (themselves) their most malignant hatreds.” And because of this, “nothing grows in the middle between an authoritarian political order and populations given to sustainable adventures with dictators.”
Why does China are looking for global hegemony rather than integrating its dynamic and creative population in a peaceful and prosperous world order? Part of the response lies in Xi Jinping’s personal maoist demons. But these demons play on the grievance that XI and other Chinese communist leaders call China “century of humiliation. “Thus, the policy based on the grievances of the People’s Republic of China gives a draconian system of technologically sophisticated social control married to international assault.
Then there is Russia. Vladimir Putin’s war against the West is the most obvious in his brutal invasion of Ukraine. However, before (and during) this challenge to any decency of global affairs, Putin launched hybrid forms of war which went from the poisoning of the world information space with lies to the separation of communication cables in the Baltic Sea to assassinate political adversaries who sought to take refuge in the West. All this was justified Regarding the historic Russian grievances which represent “we do not get respect”, coupled with the bizarre conviction of KGB -Man Putin that the collapse of the Soviet Union – one of the worst tyrannies of history – was the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century.
Compare these examples of politics based on grievances and often fatal with the aviators of Tuskegee.
I have long welcomed a deep respect for these first African-American military aviators, who have overcome centuries of racial stereotypes and prejudices to become successful fighter pilots during the Second World War. Anyone who watched the movies Tuskegee airmen And Red tail I can only be dismayed by what these heroic men have endured in order to serve their country in the air force of the American army. They triumphed, not by the policy of the grievance, but following the motto “rising above”-which did not refer to pilot their P-51 above the B-17 that they protected from the Luftwaffe, but to rise above the insane racism which harmed the racists as much as that harmed the victims of the damages.
American public life today would be considerably improved if those dependent on the policy of grievances, awakening and maga, adopted the song of the aviators of Tuskegee in Red tail: “Nothing is difficult / Everything is a challenge / adversity by the stars.”
The principle of the basic Catholic social doctrine of solidarity teaches us that an autonomous democracy can only be supported by a largely shared feeling of civic friendship and mutual responsibility – the genre that the Americans showed when, through the Maga’s political spectrum at awakening, they rushed using their neighbors when Hurricane Helene devastated North West Carolina. It would be useful for our officials to appeal to this spirit, rather than to the demon of the grievance, by rallying support for their proposed policies.