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Originally Posted by Basilissa
Isn't he too old to be woke?
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Oh, so he's just a charlatan. Although charlatans generally take some pride—even if it's not very much—in their technique. They concoct a potion tailored to their intended audience. They put it in a little bottle, blue perhaps or green. It might be a powder in a shiny or mysterious looking box. They devise a form of words based on experience and what passes for market research and could teach you how to do all that. You'd probably need an aptitude for it; and then the most important point: just when it's all going well, good sized crowds willing to part with the oof: knock it on the head and move on. Take nothing with you, after the last performance wander off as usual but get on the first train you see and stay there as far as it goes. Taken in reverse order, Sharpton from what little I've seen has mastered none of these skills.
So I'm reluctant to call him a charlatan. Perhaps there's an expression in The Koran that could apply to him? Wokeniks fall over themselves to endorse it (never having read it) or perhaps those who have not repudiated it. As sinners, many Christians had repudiated crazy ideas once the insanity was thrown into high relief
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
because that's what repudiation means. One could have been a communist and dissed the half-baked manifesto they have. Not only is it 174 years out of date, the remedies they sought to problems they described had been discovered already!
John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Not everyone sees the vile or the crazy and in those cases, because they still agree with it, they do not repudiate their book. To hear them say they have other ideas even so, and to believe them, is to be fully woke and abiding in incomprehensible darkness.