It has all the traditional trademarks of a religion. It performs the same functions as a religion. It fulfills the same sense of meaning and purpose which allow traditional organized religion to thrive.

Lets start with the obvious. Wokeism is useful to the ownership class. It distract from material reality, muddies the water. is a red flag for the liberal lefty’s bull. They clearly greenlit this after the occupy protests. Religion has always proven useful to the controllers of a society.

Secondly, the true believers find meaning, purpose, and community being a wokie. They have friends they can talk with and organize around what they believe is a great evil. They life now has inherent value, because they are fighting grave injustices that are hurting innocent minorities! They can now judge themselves as morally good people.

Third, Wokeism is can be a platform. Like evangelical preachers, the hardcore true believers, and the grifters, are thrilled with the attention and respect they command. People listen to them, they are important, and the skilled among them make a good living fighting the good fight. Nothing better than earning cash while fighting injustice and evil!

Fourth, Wokeism is a simplistic worldview. Everyone wants to have an understanding of how the world around them works, but this world is very complex and cause and effect interactions are not obvious. Wokiesm offers a very simplistic narrative of Bad Things are Caused By Whiteness/White Supremacy. Its an explanation for WHY bad things happen. Its not God’s Will, it’s White Man’s nefarious plots. Even the lowest IQ can understand that.

Fifth, whiteness is bad, and you happen to be white, which means means its Original Sin time! Thou shall atone for that middle/upper class privilege!!

Sixth, they have scriptures/studies. An intellectual framework to endlessly research. Wokies peer into the mess of modern American society and generate reports and studies which all hint that maybe there is some racial discrimination in some specific area/industry and declare where there is smoke there is clearly fire, everywhere. Its a burning inferno you can’t see. Wokies are also aware of the ugly parts of American history, and when you see the sorry financial state of Americans descended from slavery, they link its all together into a convincing, cohesive theory. They use true facts, and some biased studies to leap to their narrative conclusion.

Seventh, Moral Outrage. Since Wokies are fighting for justice and against evil, opposition to their crusade must be squashed, canceled, shamed. Every lever of power is authorized for use against the greater evil of white supremacy.

So yeah, this is a full blown modern Secular Religion. Thanks, Billionaires. VERY COOL.