There is a basic dynamic of expand and consolidate. The energies of youth solidifying into the lessons of age.

As someone born in 1960 and watched these ideas carried forth on the social movements of the 60's and 70's, then buried in the rightward turn of the Reagan years, the Woke movement has always seemed like some embalmed spector, kept animated in too may university lecture halls, by wanna be hippies, that found refuge in teaching. Basically becoming a liberal status quo, rather than copying their parents conservatism.

Yet the effect was a distortion of the natural order.

Back in the day, transgender, for example, was fringe and reveled in it. Think John Waters. Trying to make fringe mainstream and trying to cancel mainstream was always set up to fail.

The simple fact is the core of any culture are those reproducing the next generation and it will be that generation that will have its experiments with trial and error. Being cast to the winds. Some is seed, the rest is fertilizer.

There is nothing wrong with childless cat ladies, but they are not the ones having the next generation of childless cat ladies.

So the fact is, this woke movement will go the way of some weird dream. Vestiges of it might linger, but for much of society, it will quickly fade.

The real question is, what will the next generation see as a path to the light? Likely many will latch onto Trump, simply because he is clearing the deck in a big way, but primarily Trump will prove to be an agent of chaos, visited on those other agents of chaos.

Actually making America great again is not going to be a return to a time of happy nuclear families, so much as understanding the forces that drove that America off the cliff in the first place.

The elites finding they could make more money by outsourcing all the work, leaving much of the country to do drugs, was a big part of it, but those jobs are not coming back.

A good first step will be to understand that a public banking system is as necessary to a functional society, as public government. As government functions as the nervous system of society, money and banking are blood and the circulation system.

I've covered it in various essays, but anyone really wanting to dig into it might look to Michael Hudson and other such writers. If one studies the causes of our endless wars, much of it has been profit driven, not any actual strategy.

So there is a lot the next generation can explore and break new ground. Expand.