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Wokeism is just the ‘smoke screen’ — Nick Freitas warns of the far more dangerous ideology quietly dismantling the West

theblaze.com · 3h · first reportShare

The biggest threat facing the West, says BlazeTV host Nick Freitas, is much bigger than wokeism. “Wokeism is more of a smoke screen for something much more dangerous and much more comprehensive,” he says. What is fueling progressivism and America’s growing wave of democratic socialism is an insidious ideology called “third worldism” — the framework that divides the world into Western “oppressors” and Global South “victims” with the explicit goal of decolonizing and dismantling the West. Europe, Freitas explains, “planted the seeds” of third worldism decades ago, and today we’re watching the horrific fallout. “I don't say this hyperbolically: Europe may already be lost,” he says. The United States, however, still has time — but not much. The signs that we are catapulting toward the same demise are more abundant than most realize, Freitas explains. “What I think a lot of people don't seem to understand is that when you actually look at the total number of democratic socialists that have