Democrats’ wokeism is annoying — but their policies are the problem

In yet another hilarious effort to address Democrats’ disastrous state, a top lefty think tank is urging them to stop sounding like out-of-touch, ultra-woke weirdos.

The geniuses at Third Way dropped the memo Friday: “Was It Something I Said?” begs Dems to ditch all the prog-speak that “no ordinary person would ever dream of saying,” detailing categories from “Organizer Jargon” to “Explaining Away Crime.”

The list of 44 words and phrases includes some much-mocked classics, such as “safe space” and “triggering,” along with more painful Correct Speech like only calling the homeless “unhoused” and criminals “justice-involved.”

“The effect of this language is to sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness,” Third Way warned.

“To please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant.”

Third Way is late to the party: Dems like Rahm Emmanuel, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and even smug activist David Hogg have been urging their fellow party members to get a grip and start trying to appeal to normal people.

But they’re all ignoring a two-fold problem: Namely, progressive speech police had the power to bully the politicians into talking this way in the first place — and into the deranged thinking that the crazy talk reflects.

So many Democrats talk this way because the tiny minority of people who think “chest feeding” must replace “breast feeding” (to cover biological males supposedly doing it!) have convinced them that it’s the only way to be “inclusive.”

That is, Dems have come to fear the wrath of their progressive censors if they don’t stick to the “correct” terms and the delusions this language represents.

Even if they think they’ve got permission to talk normally now, shifting their policies will still outrage the party’s base.

Third Way is pretending that rhetoric is Democrats’ only problem, not substance: “In reality, most Democrats do not run or govern on wildly out-of-touch social positions,” the memo said.

BUZZZZ. Wrong.

Prominent Democrats have loudly and proudly backed gender transition for kids, wide-open borders, no-bail laws that release criminals back onto the streets and countless other harebrained schemes that only appeal to activists and pathologically online progressives.

Third Way’s strategists may not deem this stuff to be “wildly out-of-touch,” but the vast majority of Americans do.

And so the Trump campaign last year could accurately point out that Kamala Harris supported mandatory taxpayer-funding of gender-reassignment surgeries for illegal immigrants.

It wasn’t just the disasters of the Biden-Harris team that doomed her presidential run.

And these policies won’t become more palatable to voters if Democrats just start using less-weird words.

If anything, covering up radical beliefs with sensible-seeming language expose them as dishonest as well as nuts.

Americans are tired of being talked down to with HR-approved wokeisms, but the words are not the heart of the problem.

It’s the policies, stupid.