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.

This is their mindset. If they believe something is "helpful" they see it as something that should be forced upon others. They even do it at a micro-level. In schools, in their communities... say one of them comes up with an idea THEY like: They try to force it on everyone else, even though others are not interested. It's just the way they think. Rather than look inside for whatever makes them happy, they want to change their entire environment, and make others create that enivronment. Thus, th…

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” —

C.S. Lewis

This perfectly describes the busybodies who are feverishly working at cobbling together an HOA of sorts in my expat community. Needless to say there's a core of us who are effectively "resisting".