That isn’t really a surprise.
Our leaders have injected the entire menu of radical “woke” ideology into the tissues of the military establishment.
Traditionally, conservative families, especially conservative working-class families, supplied a large percentage of military recruits.
Those families aren’t thrilled by the intrusion of such politically correct sentiments into an institution hitherto marked by its commitment to traditional moral and martial values.
They aren’t interested in sending their children to be catechized by anti-American Marxists or apostles of sexual exotica.
The Biden administration seems blissfully unaware of this reality.
According to the White House, the new order is part of the administration’s “whole-of-government effort to confront longstanding environmental injustices and inequities.”
Of course, we live at a time when everything is potentially racist.
So it should come as no surprise that “environmental justice” is really just an aspect of “racial justice.”
“For far too long,” the executive order reads, “communities across our country have faced persistent environmental injustice through toxic pollution, underinvestment in infrastructure and critical services, and other disproportionate environmental harms often due to a legacy of racial discrimination including redlining.”
And let’s not forget the other big-ticket item on the agenda of the left: “climate change.” “These communities with environmental justice concerns face even greater burdens due to climate change,” the White House stated.
There are bits about “Consultation and Partnership with Tribal Nations,” addressing “environmental justice concerns,” and “institutionalizing“ ”our country’s bedrock environmental laws.”
There was nothing about making sure that the U.S. military was an agile and lethal fighting force well-equipped with the most modern and capable weapons.
Such concerns seem to have been put on the back burner (but not, of course, a burner on a gas stove).
Once upon a time, people joined the military to serve their country.
Now they’re being asked to join a therapy group to promote a progressive agenda.
Increasingly, the answer to that call is, “No thanks.”
Over the past few years, the world has entered a new and more dangerous phase.
Vladimir Putin’s adventures in Ukraine are one sign of that yeastiness.
Take Biden’s executive order about “environmental justice” and put it next to his attack on the U.S. energy industry, his abandonment of the southern border, and his reckless economic policies that have dealt a body blow to the middle and working classes.
Then ask yourself this: If Biden wanted to hurt the United States, to make it poorer, less secure, and less safe, what would he do differently?
He asked a most pertinent question: “What were our foreign adversaries paying for?”
I would be interested in learning the answer.
