• Armed services are preoccupied with being woke, eliminating white supremacy, and assuring gender equity, DESPITE the fact that this de-emphasizes combat readiness.
• Schools and universities are preoccupied with being woke, teaching Critical Race Theory, eliminating white supremacy, and assuring transgender equity, DESPITE the fact that this de-emphasizes education in mathematics, history, civics, and English.
• Government runs up trillions in deficits, DESPITE the fact that this will saddle our children and grandchildren with mountainous debt that they never voted for. Talk about taxation without representation.
• Health bureaucrats order endless lockdowns, social distancing, and masking, DESPITE the fact that it crushes small business, sets back education, and disrupts social life.
• Fed produces trillions in unbacked money to finance deficits, DESPITE the fact that this saps the value of the dollar, eats away at savings, and fuels inflation that squeezes the working class.
• Progressives enforce transgenderism, gender confusion, and destruction of both masculinity and femininity, DESPITE the fact that this confuses children and undermines the nuclear family, the cornerstone of civilization.

Now replace DESPITE with BECAUSE.  Does all this seemingly chaotic activity now make sense? All of us are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of our actions, whatever we claim to be our motivation. Those who undermine our nation and our civilization will have much to answer for, either in this world or the next.