Dr. CAROL SWAIN
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military! The U.S. Senate must reject Marxist leaders for the U.S. Military Services
Dr. CAROL SWAIN
Award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities
Thank you for allowing me to address you today. My focus is on the impact that cultural Marxism or Neo-Marxism, whatever you want to call it, is having on American political life and institutions, in particular the US military.
And for people who are unfamiliar with cultural Marxism, it was a development after the failure of economic Marxism to bring about a revolution. Disciples of Karl Marx set their sights on changing institutions in the West. So, they targeted the family. They targeted religious organizations like churches, schools, marriages, traditional institutions that have been associated with Western civilization, including our government and the US military in particular.
What we have today is an agenda that's very much focused on the LGBTQ community. They are very much focused on changing the character of the military in a way that takes it away from its mission. And that's one of the problems with diversity, equity and inclusion is that the way it's being pursued, it violates our civil rights laws.
And what we have seen happen, I would say beginning most dramatically with the Obama administration, was the purging of military officials, generals. And you may recall and you can look this up, 197 officers were let go during the Obama administration because they were not deemed sufficiently loyal to Obama.
And so, the men and women that have risen to the top since then, many of them have been people that their first loyalty is not to keep an America safe from its foreign and domestic enemies. It's very much pleasing the administration. And so, we have a dangerous situation now where there is an administration, the Biden administration is very much focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in the military [which] has always been diverse. In fact, it was 1948 when the military was integrated, fully integrated. Colin Powell rose up through the ranks.
But what we have today is an agenda that's very much focused on the LGBTQ community. They are very much focused on changing the character of the military in a way that takes it away from its mission. And that's one of the problems with diversity, equity and inclusion is that the way it's being pursued, it violates our civil rights laws—The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its extensions, as well as the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
So, I would urge you all not to worry about being called racist if you're white, but to really focus on pressuring our members of Congress to do the job we sent them to Washington to do because the future of our nation depends on it.
So, it's very important for you to understand that and to realize that there's a lot at stake. And when an institution like the US military gets off mission, the mission is supposed to keep Americans safe. When they get off mission, we are all at risk. And so, we need to urge our senators to do their jobs. They are supposed to vet the candidates that come before them. They are not supposed to, you know, be ‘accommodationist’ and to make nice. They're supposed to ask serious questions of the people who are to lead our government.
So, I would urge you all not to worry about being called racist if you're white, but to really focus on pressuring our members of Congress to do the job we sent them to Washington to do because the future of our nation depends on it.