The woke war on the military has been overseen by the Biden administration and by disloyal military brass who have sought to advance their careers at the expense of national security.
But the latest attack is coming in the form of a bipartisan Senate bill for the NDAA.
The National Defense Authorization Act is a massive annual omnibus defense spending bill that currently hovers around $850 billion. It’s been the subject of detailed negotiations and the only real win that Republicans have come away with is dumping Biden’s military vaccine mandate, but without actually assuring a return for those servicemembers forced to leave over it.
That one important victory covers any number of NDAA defeats that will undermine our military.
One of these is the military branch that people tend to pay the least attention to. And that may be why the damaging language in the ‘Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022’ within the NDAA has flown under the radar. Much like the woke attacks on the military in the 2011 NDAA, Republicans will usher in, approve and vote for a defense bill that undermines national security.
And most Americans will never even be aware of it. That’s why we’re directing attention to the betrayal of the Coast Guard’s mission and the undermining of the military meritocracy.
As America’s drug crisis worsens, the Coast Guard’s role in intercepting smugglers is more important than ever. The service captures tons of drugs every year. It intercepts everything from drug smuggling submarines to fishing boats dispatched by enemy cartels to kill Americans.
The Coast Guard’s ability to protect America has been under attack by the Left from different vectors. Leftist lawfare has taken aim at the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act which authorizes Coast Guard vessels to stop and intercept smugglers in international waters.
That campaign to enable foreign drug smugglers free access is being waged by the Federal Public Defender’s Office of Puerto Rico which is unfortunately funded by taxpayers.
But the Coast Guard is also under attack from the more familiar woke infrastructure of diversity, equity and inclusion which seeks to impose racial and gender quotas, and puts identity politics ahead of readiness and national security. Much as China cheers wokeness in the Air Force and Navy, the cartels are thrilled to see the Coast Guard being taken apart in the name of equity.
The woke war on the Coast Guard went hot with the 2021 NDAA that mandated “The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall appoint a Senior Advisor for Diversity and Inclusion for the Coast Guard”. These political commissars have become ubiquitous within the military and their closeness to command means that military leaders are always being monitored.
There is no room for political commissars in the military or for the continued politicization in the name of diversity that the ‘Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022’ embodies. The Act is packed with multiple diversity sections focusing on “improving representation of women, and racial and ethnic minorities” that are wholly unnecessary and alien to the Coast Guard’s core mission.
Pushing diversity metrics inevitably leads to quotas and the elevation of people who are not the best candidates for the job. And in the military that means virtue signaling gets people killed.
The Commandant of the Coast Guard is Linda Fagan: whom the media takes pains to remind us is the first woman to lead a branch of the armed services. At the change of command ceremony, Biden left little doubt about why she was chosen. “It’s about time,” he rambled. “The Secretary of Defense, when he sent me name, I said, ‘What in the hell took you so long?'”
Is the Coast Guard any better at performing its mission when its commandant is a woman? Are its personnel more confident of the leadership of someone chosen for her DNA?
Even though the Coast Guard Academy is already 40% female, the Senate bill orders the Commandant to work on improving the representation of women using the RAND representation report which pushes political agendas under the guise of fighting discrimination.
The RAND report demanded that the Coast Guard address “concerns” about “racism in local communities” and monitor racism in “problematic locations for assignments”. This moves the Coast Guard into policing the views of local Americans instead of rescuing them at sea.
The report quotes an anonymous minority man complaining that, “I have a friend going to Oregon right now. He’s the only person of color there. There are certain things you can’t say or do.” The state has a lesbian governor, but there aren’t enough black people in the state so now the eight coast guard stations in Oregon are to be treated like they’re in KKK territory.
Other Coast Guard locations denounced as racist in the RAND report are the state of North Carolina and Portsmouth, New Hampshire: which declared itself a “racial justice municipality” during the BLM race riots. Apparently that’s still too racist for the woke activists of RAND.
Beyond just imposing quotas, the RAND report demands political tests through “cultural change” in the familiar metrics of critical race theory. Diversity training is to be mandated for all leadership. And diversity training has long since become a political vessel for delivering racist ideas about America, the legitimacy of the Constitution and fundamental national values.
Diversity is just a false flag for the cultural transformation of the military and its mission from defending this country to promoting the treasonous and disloyal agendas of its leftist enemies.
The RAND report has a quote bemoaning the racist concept of “white privilege” while attacking the Coast Guard’s white officers for not understanding how racist America is. It pushes for diversity as the core metric while insisting that the Coast Guard “must foster a climate in which diversity is recognized as enhancing the collective operational performance.”
Except it doesn’t. And no amount of lies will change the fact that it undermines performance.
The Authorization Act mandates a “10-year strategy to enhance Coast Guard diversity” and seeks to build recruitment around diversity. This perpetuates the myth that the Coast Guard is somehow racist or restricts minorities from joining or serving. Captain Michael A. Healy actually became the first black captain in the United States under the United States Revenue Cutter Service which preceded the Coast Guard. It’s since boasted of black female helicopter pilots and assorted ‘historic firsts’ to disprove the accusations of racism that keep coming its way.
The Coast Guard isn’t racist, but, like the other branches of the military, it attracts recruits who are drawn to its particular ethos.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
The obsessive idea that the Coast Guard and the rest of the military “need to look like America” is not only deeply distorted, but undermines their primary missions. The Coast Guard isn’t here to fill diversity quotas or to “look like America”, but to defend America.
The ‘Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022’ is a mistake. And any future patriotic administration or congress need to dismantle the quotas, jettison the diversity, equity and inclusion plans, and eliminate advisers and personnel dedicated to implementing them at every level.
Defeating the woke enemy within is becoming our leading national security crisis.
The woke assault on the military has touched off civil wars within each branch of the military between those patriots trying to serve their country and those trying to serve themselves.
As Captain Healy’s role shows, the military is there to overcome identity politics by bringing its people together to serve a common mission. When identity politics becomes the mission, morale, readiness and performance fall apart. And our national security is the first casualty.
Good article, but I was hoping Mr. Greenfield would name names of the lackluster Republicans who signed on to this bullshit.
Every time some squish “reaches across the aisle”, it results in capitulation. (It’s nice to know, they got a few coins tossed on the dresser for their effort.)
I too wished he had mentioned who the Republicans were
(AKA:…. RINOS)
I don’t want these people representing my party.
If they believe in the left wing agenda join then.
Don’t make it look like I support Democrats IN ANY WSY.
Yes, give us the names! We want to know which RINOs stabbed their voters in the back and voted for this. The total vote for the NDAA was 88 to 11 and 1 abstention.
RINOs Scott, McConnell, and Rubio led the way for the RINOs
Senator Paul voted against it. He is one of the few who stood up for the taxpayer and the US. Both of my Senators voted yea. Too bad. only 5 Republicans voted against this boondoggle that will send hundreds of millions to the Ukraine for laundering.
If its names you want go to this website: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/117-2022/s396
The Republican Party has had people fooled since 1860. It went to war to recover the nearly 75 percent of revenue the South had produced for the Union and lied and said it made war to preserve the Union and free slaves, although in fact its victory freed no slaves in North or South. In the North the GOP’s Union tolerated four slave states throughout the entire war and after it. Sure, Democrats are Neo Marxists in revolution against the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and the nation, and as such are plain evil. But the GOP was first to make all the citizens slaves under the label free after causing the death of 1,000,000 Americans in its war.
Part 1 I hate Confederate apologists, especially when they are remorseless liars.
“The Republican Party has had people fooled since 1860. It went to war to recover the nearly 75 percent of revenue the South had produced for the Union and lied and said it made war to preserve the Union and free slaves,”
Firstly: The seceded parts of the South never provided ANYTHING like that amount of revenue; New York itself accounted for more than 10% of the national revenue and that was partnered with giants like Ohio.
Secondly: “The Republican Party” didn’t go to war. The Secessionist militias did by pillaging Federal property, assaulting citizens of non-secessionist states, and ultimately firing on Fort Sumter, even mocking and rejecting an offer to wait and have the fort peacefully surrendered to them if its commander was not resupplied or given contrary orders.
Moreover, much of this happened under Buchanan’s administration, not the Republican Party.
Thirdly: Conflating free slaves with save the Union is typically ignorant conflation. While the Republican Party writ large opposed both slavery and separatism, it recognized the need to preserve the Union first and foremost, and there were many people who were simultaneously advocates of slavery and preserving the Union. Which became an issue as the war increasingly became about slavery.
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“although in fact its victory freed no slaves in North or South.”
What utter crock.
Even at my most generous, this is a mis-remembering of the Emancipation Proclamation, which Confederate apologists like claiming freed no slaves because it was limited to separatist areas. But that ignores the fact that the Union occupied a good deal of separatist territory at the time and freed the slaves there.
But more importantly ,it ignores the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished permanent slavery everywhere in the US.
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“In the North the GOP’s Union tolerated four slave states throughout the entire war and after it. ”
Again, the Thirteenth Amendment and its kin were passed over the course of 1864 and early 1865, meaning that slavery was abolished there too.
But in any case, the Union fought first and foremost to preserve the Union and punish Confederate aggression against it (and indeed, it was willing to tolerate a neutral Kentucky that remained in the Union; it was the Confederates invading there that changed). It was the Confederate leadership that made slavery integral to their cause, and led to the backlash.
“Sure, Democrats are Neo Marxists in revolution against the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and the nation, and as such are plain evil. ”
That they are.
“But the GOP was first to make all the citizens slaves under the label free after causing the death of 1,000,000 Americans in its war.”
What an utter crock. Again: Great is the guilt for an unjust war, and the American Civil War is an unjust war the separatists started. As they were willing to admit at the time. They were the first to draw the sword and fire the shots, and they behaved atrociously to their fellow countrymen in pursuit of retaining chattel slavery and overturning an election they lost.
Seriously. The Democrats have so screwed up the military that a new national strategy is called for. Basically arming our allies so they can do their own fighting themselves. I was reading earlier about Japan’s new defense strategy.
I keep seeing reports like this. Sure, I’d like to know the names of the Republicans who support this jacka$$ery. But, more interestingly, I’d like to know the CREATORS of this bill! Who are they? What are their names?
Mandate that all Democrat Politicians have their Bodyguards taken away or train them in the use of The Force so they can disarm assassins like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker can
Whenever you see the word bipartisan in U.S. political headlines you must translate that as “Republicans cave to Democrats.” But beyond that, you—I mean you who read my comments here, and then you generally—must understand that everything that happens in the national government is for the benefit of office-holders and the bureaucratic swamp—not the nation and not you, unless you have the millions (or increasingly, billions) to buy votes that benefit you. It has been that way in D.C. since 1860 when the GOP drove southern states out of the union, brought them back through force of arms, and then made them non-citizen residents two years later. Now being a citizen doesn’t really mean much, and it sure doesn’t mean you are free. You are granted the illusion of liberty just as long as your behavior is approved by the national government.
I see you like using sock puppet names.
“Whenever you see the word bipartisan in U.S. political headlines you must translate that as “Republicans cave to Democrats.” ”
Agreed.
“But beyond that, you—I mean you who read my comments here, and then you generally—must understand that everything that happens in the national government is for the benefit of office-holders and the bureaucratic swamp—not the nation and not you, unless you have the millions (or increasingly, billions) to buy votes that benefit you. ”
Largely agreed though I think you overestimate the value of buying votes.
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“It has been that way in D.C. since 1860 when the GOP drove southern states out of the union,”
Oh go to hell with your Confederate apologia.
The Confederates were quite happy to drive themselves out of the Union without the Republican Party. Buchanan was still in office when South Carolina led the cause of violent treason by seceding from the Union, and the Republican Party did not even exist when Calhoun threatened to do similar. Moreover, it was the Confederacy that ultimately rejected diplomacy in favor of force.
” brought them back through force of arms, and then made them non-citizen residents two years later.”
That’s kind of what happens when entire state governments commit treason, before losing. You generally get looked at very suspiciously and forfeit many of your rights. And frankly Reconstruction was probably too lenient on the likes of Davis and co. And even then it was ended in less than 30 years. A remarkable turnaround, especially given the state of the war.
And the “non-citizens” were certainly freer than most were under the Confederacy, be they slaves or dissident non-slaves.
” Now being a citizen doesn’t really mean much, and it sure doesn’t mean you are free. You are granted the illusion of liberty just as long as your behavior is approved by the national government.”
So how do you propose we change that?
Senator Cantwell a Democrat from WA.is the sponsor, It was just introduced has not been voted on yet…. S4102.
S4802 is the bill number
Alex Haley entered the Coast guard as a stewards mate. The Coast Guard created the journalist rating for him and he completed his service as a warrant officer. He, of course, went on to write “Roots”.
Further, the Coast Guard’s sole polar icebreaker is the USCGC Healy.
Doesn’t sound like a racist organization to me.
I am a Coast Guard veteran and am disappointed in this wokeness in the USCG. I loved my time in the USCG, my mistake was not staying in for 20+ years and retiring with a pension.