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Thank you for getting organized! Wokeness is a cancer that has metastasized across all of our institutions. Curing it starts with strong families and raising children with strong values. The cultural and spiritual fronts are vital to turn the tide in the trenches. Tech platforms like Primer and Synthesis also help with better educational options.

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Interesting essay. However, I disagree about mixing up Adam Smith and trade policy with the issues affecting education and free speech. I think many classical liberals get confused about the difference between political liberty and capitalism. The Economist magazine, the premier classical liberal publication, has actually admitted they were wrong in assuming for a number of years that as China became more capitalistic, it would become more free. The exact opposite happened. The elite in China used the country's wealth to solidify their power and increase their political repression. Today they put Uighurs in concentration camps and make people starve to death rather than loosen a COVID lockdown. They cracked down on Hong Kong to squash any semblance of self-determination. Capitalism did not help the Chinese become more free or more liberal; it helped them become less free, more authoritarian and more repressive.

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