Afghanistan was a ghastly display of how wokeness weakens America

Another factor compounded our compromised geopolitical position: America s top companies have turned their back on America.

Just this week, Twitter effectively aided the Taliban in their coup by permitting them to tweet to hundreds of thousands of followers as they seized control of the presidential palace in Kabul. Meanwhile, Twitter has permanently banned the 45th president of the United States from communicating with his own followers here in America (the Taliban made hay of this fact in a recent news conference, referring a question about free speech to US companies like Facebook). Companies like Disney and Nike regularly criticize the United States, even as they obsequiously praise the genocidal Chinese Communist Party.

These corporate actions further contribute to a growing morally relativistic perception of America on the global stage: If the same companies that criticize the United States for injustice say nothing bad about the Taliban or the Beijing regime, that implicitly bolsters the moral standing of the latter at the expense of the former.

So when China invades Taiwan in the years ahead, we can reasonably expect that these same companies will remain silent or even praise Beijing, just as Twitter implicitly aided the Taliban this week at the expense of US interests. China expects it, too. That s what modern progressives miss: Once corporations become vectors to advance progressive agendas, they become vehicles to advance any agenda.

We are only beginning to understand the dangers of the woke agenda and its marriage to American capitalism. The consequences could be existential for American democracy at home and American exceptionalism abroad. The first step in addressing the problem is to expose it and speak out against it.

via nypost.com

Vivek is not wrong.