(5 / 5)
Note: The following review was originally done for Reedsy and is being reposted here with the permission of the site.
Stating in early 2020, billions of people around the world witnessed their lives taken hostage by the fear of the COVI-19 pandemic and the force known all too well as authority. It was not an isolated incident but the culmination of systematic and long-planned erasure of freedom and liberty, particularly in the developed west where they remain at the very foundation of society. In Woke: How a Radical Political Agenda Unravelled Truth, Sanity, and the Western World, Grant Rader presents a snapshot of the west under attack from within by forces that share a tyrannical, globalist agenda.
Rader has dedicated the book to his daughter and the youth of her generation with the prayer that they be able to see the truth through the lies spread around the world – a powerful message conveying the spirit of the book. In twenty short chapters, he summarizes the most pressing issues of contemporary America and other nations in the west that have been plagued for decades by the woke ideology – i.e. the leftist, liberal worldview – operating extensively in both government and private sectors.
The brevity of Woke doesn’t take away from its merits as a well-conceived and well-presented critique of the contemporary western societies where the majority of the population has no real power in decision-making except the individual power of refusing to comply by an Orwellian redo of the society at every level. Rader maintains great articulation in his depiction of the dynamics of political power and institutional coordination to target, ignore, label, and subdue the Christian conservative segment of the population in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and across the European Union. His voice combines the passion of a patriot and the insight of a scholar to deliver the call for independent thought and lawful resistance to the ever-looming wokism over the future of a free Christian conservative west.
Woke ends on a note of hope in acknowledgment of the awareness and independence that millions in the U.S. and the west have shown in wake of the aggressive advance of radical progressivism in the past five years. Rader thus becomes the representative voice of countless people in America and the west who reject a totalitarian model of governance along the lines of the Soviet and other dictatorial regimes of the past century.
With relevant quotes from famous people starting each chapter and a short list of selected works about the woke ideology, Rader’s Woke is recommended to all fans of motivational works of patriotism.