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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Marcus Garvey. 
Lead Belly:
"I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there (Scottsboro) – best stay woke, keep their eyes open."

Friend who is kind of an idiot asked where it came from so I looked it up.

Puts a different perspective on it.

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No, no it doesn’t.

It’s a work and takes in multiple meanings depending on context or the times.

Your quote misuses it to say “stay vigilant”.

Bankrupt BLM and DEI used it during Covid to say “be enlightened” to their cause.

Then it because a term for appeasing BLM and DEI demands.

Now there are DEI and BLM lawsuits everywhere and the left wants to use Woke as a term for right wing nut jobs and the right wants to use Woke as a term for left wing nut jobs.

Good stuff. [/quote]

NP. It's a strange generational shift I've seen. My father was Republican, truly compassionate, a man of integrity and a gentleman.  My brother, and others I know and see online, are Republican and a**holes.  Why is that?[/quote]

I grew up with Reagan.  I feel there was at least more decency and integrity and consistency back then.   And Reagan famously said "Trust, but verify." 
I feel like so much of that is gone now.  Today's Republicans are led by these cravenly dishonest liars who will say and do anything to either get ahead and keep power.  There is very little coherent, consistent policy anymore, instead it's become a cult of personality around Trump, and whatever wind blows from Trump's mouth today is their ideological purity, regardless of where they stood last year on the same issue.

I think it all started with Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio, getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine, and the rise of FOX News, and it's only gotten progressively worse.  It's even to the point where it is visibly evident that FOX struggles to contain the monster it helped create, and where those who helped forge the Frankenstein's Monster that is MAGA, like Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson and others now decry it.   [/quote]

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