{"id":1461,"date":"2026-08-12T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:08:57","slug":"the-cultural-revolution-is-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Revolution Is in Full Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s no secret that socialism is advancing in the U.S. The latest development in this ominous trend occurred on August 4, when Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive backed by democratic socialists, defeated the establishment-backed congresswoman Haley Stevens in Michigan\u2019s Democratic Senate primary.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, our culture is under constant attack by radicals seeking to transform our national ethos. Despite some claims to the contrary, the cultural upheaval known as \u201cWokism\u201d is very much alive and well. As John Murawski writes in RealClearInvestigations<\/em>, the movement in recent years, \u201cfrom slavery reparations and polyamory to transgender advocacy and anti-colonialism, reveals that this dogma is still percolating through the culture, with some new outbreak almost every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

A case in point is a video released by Accuracy in Media from the just-completed American Psychological Association conference, which shows speakers advocating that psychologists use therapeutic approaches to become better \u201cwhite allies\u201d and advance \u201cantiracist\u201d objectives in their practices, rather than helping patients overcome mental health challenges.<\/p>\n

There are myriad examples of woke\u2019s staying power in our nation\u2019s schools, where far-left ethnic studies programs still prevail. In California, the adopted curriculum includes lessons on settler colonialism and the Third World Liberation Front and even uses Black Panther Party newspapers as primary sources. California law encourages districts to develop their own ethnic studies curricula, and many have gone beyond the state model. Some have incorporated materials on the \u201cLand Back\u201d movement, which rejects widely accepted notions of borders and citizenship. These are not fringe supplements, and this content is already in many classrooms.<\/p>\n

The teachers\u2019 unions are at the forefront of this fanatical trend. On May Day, the National Education Association issued a toolkit that is essentially an updated version of Marx and Engels\u2019 Communist Manifesto<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As reported by Defending Education, the NEA toolkit contains typical leftist claptrap, including a laundry list of demands for a day of action that stresses \u201cbuilding the Society we ALL deserve.\u201d The union\u2019s agenda includes \u201cstopping the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption within the Trump administration, taxing the rich, and eliminating ICE,\u201d among other measures.<\/p>\n

May Day is just one example of students being used as pawns by radicals. Defending Education maintains a \u201cK-12 Student Walkout and Protest Tracker\u201d that documents K-12 student walkouts and protests from 2022 to the present, all orchestrated by left-wing educators.<\/p>\n

The group tracks 48 states and Washington, D.C., and found that between 2022 and 2025, 169 school districts experienced teacher-led student walkouts. But this year, there have already been a whopping 402 instances.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, U.S. colleges are also major purveyors of indoctrination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe binary definition of sex in biology is a recent invention,\u201d writes Princeton University anthropologist Agust\u00edn Fuentes in his book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In a phone interview with John Murawski, Fuentes claimed that the biological sciences have been undergoing a paradigm shift for several decades and that \u201cmany scholars\u00a0reject the sexual binary model\u00a0that says females are defined solely by large gametes (eggs) and males by small gametes (sperm).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fuentes relies on \u201cQueer Theory\u201d in\u00a0his work and maintains that it is an important part of contemporary biological thought. He believes that perceived differences in strength and speed between males and females in sports \u201care to a\u00a0considerable extent products of culture, not biology.\u201d He adds that if \u201csociety held the same expectations and invested equally in male and female sports, the performance gap between the sexes would narrow significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there is the University of Minnesota, which is developing \u201ctherapeutic\u201d transgender dolls for children. The project is set to launch this year.<\/p>\n

The MyGender Dolls website states that the dolls are \u201cgrounded in gender-affirming clinical practices\u201d and will serve as a \u201ctherapeutic\u201d resource for clinicians and educators working with children ages 4 to 10.<\/p>\n

In addition to interchangeable genitals, the dolls also come with a wide array of customizable accessories, including outfits and hairstyles, to accommodate a diversity of gender presentations. They come in a wide range of skin tones. The dolls are also deliberately given names that could belong to either gender, such as \u201cSam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scarily, medical schools are not exempt from the woke movement. As I wrote a year ago, the nation\u2019s leading medical schools are controlled by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion extremists who impose wokist nonsense, including \u201cweight inclusivity,\u201d racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through policies, statements, and curricular mandates.<\/p>\n

While some argue that DEI is abating, The Daily Caller<\/em> reports that there has been absolutely no change to this abysmal set of circumstances. Sometimes the names of efforts have simply been altered. For example, the University of Iowa announced in March 2025 that it was shutting down its Division of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity following a directive from the Iowa Board of Regents. However, Do No Harm, which represents physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice, found that the DEI office was \u201cstill fully up and running,\u201d but under a different name, which amounts to putting lipstick on the proverbial pig.<\/p>\n

While U.S. schools were once our country\u2019s most trusted institutions, that era has passed. Rick Hess, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, notes that in 1973, 61 percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Democrats expressed \u201ca great deal\u201d or \u201cquite a lot\u201d of confidence in America\u2019s public schools. But 50 years later, those figures have fallen to 43 percent among Democrats and to a mere 14 percent among Republicans.<\/p>\n

In higher education, the decline has been even more rapid and dramatic. In 2010, 75 percent of Americans said college was \u201cvery important,\u201d but by 2025, only 35 percent did so.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, parents should homeschool if possible; if not, they should send their children to a private school that educates without indoctrinating. Then, instead of sending their teenagers to college, parents should have them attend a good technical school where they can learn a trade, become successful adults, and avoid becoming woke robots.<\/p>\n

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