ELAINE DONNELLY
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
ELAINE DONNELLY
Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness
The armed forces really need the support of Congress right now. The defense bill has several provisions more than a few, that would confront the concept and the practice of wokeism in the military. And the term goes beyond political correctness. It means taking extremism to its limits, imposing it with coercion, even if it hurts the institution.
The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is totally bought into this. It is manifested in things like critical race theory teachings and diversity, equity, inclusion, reverse discrimination.
But Congress has the power to overrule this with a strong defense bill. And the question is, will members of Congress fight for the good provisions in that bill in the same way that Senator Tuberville is fighting to tell the Pentagon, ‘no, you are not going to make policy regarding abortion, especially if your policies are contrary to what Congress intended’?
All of the issues that are described as woke, whatever you call them, they are all extreme. They are all harmful to our military.
We have people in high places now under this administration who are implementing them. But it doesn't have to remain this way indefinitely. It is up to Congress. They have the right under the Constitution. They have the power of the purse. They need to use both to stop the spread and the implementation and the hold on our military by the forces of Wokeism who do not have the best interests of America at heart.