It takes very little time and effort to start listing all the exercises in unreality that now dominate our nation.

1) Government spending can continue without limits, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

2) Illegal immigration benefits our country, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

3) Law enforcement is inherently racist, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

4) A modern industrial economy can run on windmills, batteries, and solar panels, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

5) Patriotism is an insult to our intelligence, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

6) Our public schools are doing a fantastic job preparing students for college and careers, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

7) Our gender is completely unrelated to our genetic inheritance, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

8) Religious faith and practice oppresses individuals and promotes hatred, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

9) Personal responsibility and accountability are both unnecessary and undesirable, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far right looney.

10) The traditional family unit is a patriarchal and bigoted artifact that must be discarded, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

11) Censorship of speech and thought ensures our freedom, and to suggest otherwise means you are a cruel, far-right looney.

You get the idea, right?

Over the past several decades we have, as a nation, entered into what can best be described as a super-cycle of stupidity. What is truly frightening about the situation we find ourselves in is that all of the utter nonsense now destroying America is accepted wisdom at the highest levels of our educational institutions, taxpayer-dependent programs, and halls of government, which act in concert to suppress dissent and punish dissenters. To speak up in America today is to be stomped down, and the mutually reinforcing nature—or should I say intersectionality?—of the Woke idiocies crippling our country makes changing the disastrous direction of our country an incredible chore.

A core problem is that so many paychecks are now wholly dependent on wasteful and unsustainable levels of government spending and debt, and the sorts of meat cleaver cuts that are needed to reconcile spending and tax revenues require a degree of courage that is notably absent today. A single ram among a sea of sheep can accomplish little, and the blowback that will result from the abrupt termination hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats and the programs they oversee would crash the very same educational institutions, taxpayer-dependent hallucinations, and governmental departments spreading the Big Lies that justify their existences.

A stubborn insistence on propagating an alternate reality and a set of societal objectives that contradict the norms by which the vast majority of Americans choose to live their lives is desperately necessary in order to maintain the many scams that now dominate our country.

A nation full of married men and women driving cars that use internal combustion engines while raising their happily-binary children, who all attend schools of their choice, behave responsibly, salute the flag, attend a house of worship with their parents, enjoy backyard barbecues, and grow up blissfully ignorant of the latest government directives demanding their allegiance is a vision of hell on earth for the Wokesters feverishly picking out their pronouns, sneering at the idea of a full-time job, and riding their electric scooters to Starbucks for an insanely overpriced cup of coffee.

It is easy to see the root of problem. Living in a cocoon of self-validating self-righteousness based on self-imposed lies is a pretty cozy existence for those who have been educated to the brink of abject ignorance. To change the minds of those who have been brainwashed into living as annoying and self-indulgent snobs who cling desperately to their fantastically misguided beliefs in their own moral and intellectual superiority is an exercise in futility, so it is perhaps best to leave them to devote their lives to their quest of finding the most comfortable pair of Crocs to wear while complaining about all the haters who refuse to treat them with the respect and deference they deserve.

In the final analysis, it will be up to those Americans who know how to both build and defend our nation to slap our country back into shape. The slackers and scammers are happy to get paid to produce nothing of value—with no expectation that they ever will. Government largesse is their manna from heaven (although they would reject the reference), and anyone who threatens the flow of unaccountable cash flowing into their pockets—whether this money is paying for ugly public artwork, an elementary school’s gender transition closet, benefits to illegal immigrants, or a new crop of Marxist graduate students—is going to be forcing a lot of unwilling and unhappy people into gainful employment in the private sector.

We are at a moment of crisis, one where the irresistible force of fantasy is belatedly meeting the immovable object of reality, and the money that has delayed this reckoning for decades is now running out. None of what is to come will be pretty or easy, but it will be necessary if we hope to save America from the Big Lies.