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One cannot help but notice that every claimed abuse our "woke-scolders" nag us about, from climate change to COVID to civil rights to gendernoia, has two common characteristics:

1. Their “solutions” consistently impose ever more top-down control upon the rest of us.

2. Advancing their specific claimed "abuse" is consistently subordinated to expanding this top-down control.

It seems that our woke-scolders are Progressives first, (insert claimed abuse here) second.

Well said. And it seems the Progressive woke-scolders in my neighborhood have inserted themselves into the HOA, where $2 million has gone missing from budget cookie jar. They hand out exorbitant fines and harass homeowners, while their homes get remodeled using HOA contractors. They create more top-down control laws which are randomly enforced to line their pockets and make life miserable for all living things.

Corruption and greed are genetic flaws that humanity has failed to evolve past. Corruption and greed exist in all facets of human existence where the first and foremost purpose of most peoples' existence is to enrich themselves and to get gain. From the federal leviathan to the small town to the local church. There will always be someone in the organization who believes they are entitled to more and will steal what they believe is theirs. Until humanity evolves past this we will never progress to be more than what we currently are.

Sadly, I agree that greed and corruption are part of the human condition. And those that possess this trait in greater abundance tend to drift into positions of power and influence. It takes strong, ethical leaders, those who can absorb the slings and arrows against them, to rise up and rally the masses to counter this phenomena. I don't think we'll ever move past this dynamic.

I don't think we will either. Which means we are doomed to repeat the same lessons over and over and over again until we finally do destroy ourselves. The dinosaurs had millions of years on this rock. I doubt our civilization will even get a hundred thousand years.

Just read the Bible, a fabulous tome on the lack of progression of the human condition. How many times must God destroy humans before they wise up? Is the Revelation the final straw? It is disconcerting that John’s vision shows that the vast majority of humanity will be wiped out trying to rid Earth of crappy people.

I've read the Bible, a few times. I think John was smoking Patmosian peyote when he wrote that thing. It can be interpreted so many ways that it is impossible to know exactly what he was talking about or seeing. We do know that Christ's return will usher in 1000 years of peace. Why? Because the crappy people will all be gone. But when does this happen? Who knows.