This article has been updated to include recent events and additional information. Originally published in June 2025.
“Don’t look up.” It’s an unspoken rule in America that involves many players working together to ensure all Americans of a certain class keep looking down, to the Left or to the Right.
People on the Left and Right are NOT enemies. The billionaires, CEOs, and people in power use culture wars and lies to keep the two groups fighting.
They want the working class to remain on the bottom—looking down, left, or right. But NOT UP because the working-class is the largest group in America. So if we look up…
they’re fu**ed.
I couldn’t sleep last night because my brain wouldn’t stop thinking about ways to bring the Left and Right together—Not to agree on policies or to concede a culture war—We don’t have to agree 100% on everything and sit in a circle, holding hands, while singing Kumbaya.
We just need to work together to save our democracy and improve the lives of working-class Americans by pushing for higher wages and by closing the widening gap between the wealthy and the poor. (Income inequality)
I’m talking about putting differences aside in order to save our country and maybe improve the lives of the average American while we’re at it? I came up with using the title of the Netflix movie, “Don’t Look Up.” It’s perfect because it applies to the cause and it’s a 3-word phrase.
Don’t Look Up
Studies have shown that the success rate of campaigns is higher when 3-4 word slogans are used that are simple, easy-to-remember, and work well in a chant. “Lock her up!” “No tax on tips.” “Drain the swamp!” It would also fit nicely on a baseball cap.
Being “woke” means your eyes are open and you see what the people in power are doing. Why do you think all of the people in power are fighting against it SO HARD? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis even declared a “war on woke.”
They haven’t just stolen the word and changed its meaning. They now use it to describe any progress the country has made in terms of systemic racism, LGBTQ+ rights, labor rights, civil rights, and human rights overall.
In the same way that they took “woke” and quickly turned it into something negative, bad, and wrong, they changed the meaning of “DEI” into something negative. DEI now means “person of color or woman who lack the ability to do their job.”
If a plane crashes, Right-wing media and pundits will rush to figure out what the pilot’s race is. It brings them sick joy to be able to use a tragedy to push their racist agenda.
They’ve manipulated people into completely ignoring the main aspect of the hiring process in a company with a DEI program. They want you to believe the company rejects the White guy with experience and skills for the job to hire a Black guy with no experience—simply because he’s Black.
They skip over the part where the group they’re choosing from ARE ALL QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB TO BEGIN WITH.
They take a group of fully qualified applicants and from those people with the experience and skills to do the job, they’ll make a conscious effort to diversify the team. Studies have shown that corporations with diverse teams perform better, have better ideas, and MAKE MORE MONEY.
“Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35% more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.”
Do you think corporations truly care about diversity, equity, and inclusion? No! They do it because it improves their product/service and increases revenue—meaning more money for the CEO and shareholders.
If Donald Trump were a REAL businessman, he would know this and not force companies to end their DEI programs. Instead, his White Nationalist agenda is more important than his desire for the U.S. economy, businesses, and the American people to succeed and thrive.
Back to the previous scenario where the Right rushes to discover the pilot’s race following a plane crash: If the pilot is White, they’ll say, “Something must have gone wrong with the plane that caused it to crash.” If the pilot is Brown, Black, or transgender, “DEI.”
“A black man was flying the plane and he obviously doesn’t know how to fly since he was hired because of DEI, not based on ability or merit. It was all his fault.” Women are also part of their DEI “group.”
If people aren’t thinking critically (which is a skill that’s lacking in our society), they won’t pick up on the gaslighting and propaganda the Right puts out using words like woke and concepts like diversity, equity, and inclusion. The fact that critical thinking skills aren’t part of our children’s education is intentional on the part of the powerful and their Keep Them Stupid agenda.
Anytime they use the term “DEI,” in any context, the meaning is always the same. Only White men are qualified to do the job (unless it’s in fast food, agriculture, or a minimum wage position).
When they say someone of color was hired “because of DEI” they’re insinuating that person wouldn’t have gotten the job without DEI. That’s racist. Assuming someone isn’t smart enough or doesn’t have the necessary skills because of the color of their skin is textbook discrimination/prejudice.
There are women of color in Congress who have college degrees or who worked as lawyers prior to running for Congress, that the Republicans and conservative media constantly call stupid, “low IQ,” etc.
Dan Bongino’s podcast once ran a competition with brackets for the Dumbest Person in Congress. The competition and voting on different brackets lasted several weeks. They ended up with 2 people in the final bracket. The final competition was between Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Eric Swalwell. You won’t be surprised to find out that Hus listeners and social media followers voted AOC the “dumbest person in Congress.”
I listened to the competition on conservative radio while driving each day and you can imagine me screaming—alone in the car—“MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE! LAUREN BOEBERT!”
AOC has 2 Bachelor’s degrees from Boston University. One in International Relations and the other in Economics. Eric Swalwell has a Bachelor’s degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and a Law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. He was a practicing lawyer prior to serving in the House of Representatives.
Facts don’t matter to the people in power on the Right who labeled them the top two dumbest members of Congress. In fact, Republicans in power make a concerted effort to discount and demonize higher education and knowledge. The Trump administration attacked colleges, shuttered the Department of Education, and decimated the scientific community in the U.S.
Some of the world’s most brilliant scientists were working on finding cures for diseases and creating innovation here in America, but they’ve since left the country to take their knowledge and talent to a foreign country where they’re respected and their knowledge is appreciated.
The cure for Cancer could now be discovered in another country, by one of our scientists that Trump got rid of. (I hope one of those scientists discovers something amazing so Trump can feel like an idiot for giving the credit for a major scientific discovery away to France. I can already see the Truth Social rants.
Several members of the Trump administration have said, “We’re back to merit-based hiring.” It’s pretty funny when you realize Trump nominated people because he liked them, they liked him, and they would be sufficiently loyal. Their appointments have nothing to do with experience and skill for the position.
The powerful got a bonus prize when it comes to the “War on Woke.” Not only did they find something to blame the Left for and make the two sides fight over, but they were also able to take a word used to label people whose eyes were open and who were aware of the lies and corruption of those in power and turn it into something completely unrelated.
Being woke was gaining traction and spreading. The government took notice and if any group in society was going to topple the people in power, it definitely couldn’t be Black men! For all the work the powerful does to keep the Black community down, dumb, and poor, they’re the ones who see what’s really going on.
I wonder if they had a good laugh while discussing plans for demonizing “woke” and the people who were a threat to their entire operation. They can’t have people spreading the truth about whats going on! That would defeat their Keep them Dumb and Poor strategy.
The protest sign below that mentions looking up inspired me to create this post and share some of my favorite signs from the anti-fascist protests this year. What started out as a photo gallery quickly turned into words. So..many..words. That’s me!
Don’t Look Up Protest Signs
Do you have a sign you made that you’d like to share? Or maybe you saw one in the protests in your town that you love. Share it with us in the comments!
At a time like this, its more important than ever that we come together and continuously inspire one another to keep fighting.
Keep participating in the #NoKings protests!
One last image to help get the concept I’m trying to explain over the finish line:
