States pushing back on bogus liberal agenda

 Mike Gonzales:

You don’t need a political science degree from the Sorbonne to know there are forces attempting regime change in America. Diversity, equity, and inclusion; critical race theory; environmental, social, and governance—these are the strategies that nonelected entities are using to alter how we live.

Now to the rescue comes a functioning branch of representative democracy. State governments, particularly state legislatures, are going into overdrive to introduce a raft of bills to defeat DEI, CRT, and ESG.

Florida and Texas led the way. Now, Missouri and Arizona have introduced bills that defend the constitutional order the purveyors of the alphabet soup are trying to deconstruct. Even Congress is getting in on the act: Two anti-CRT bills have just been introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The state efforts, however, have a much better chance of passing than the one about to be reintroduced in the Senate by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and in the House by Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C.

Besides, states have constitutional authority over education. In fact, federal bills that try to tell the 50 states what to do in education will meet legal difficulties.
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The efforts in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri join a bundle of bills that have passed in other states in the past two years or are still pending. These bills either reject the discrimination of critical race theory or establish parents’ bills of rights or guarantee academic transparency. The Heritage Foundation has a handy state tracker that shows where the state of play is in every one of the 50 states.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion includes perhaps the most apple pie terms in the triangle of abbreviations. Diversity, defined in the traditional sense, is a plus if it is obtained naturally as a result of colorblind equality of opportunity. But in today’s parlance, it means coercive racial quotas, which are illegal and unseemly.

Equity, meanwhile, has perversely come to mean government taking account of race, not need, when handing out benefits—the opposite of the American ideal of equality. Inclusion now means exclusion, as it pushes out of the group anyone espousing ideas that the orthodoxy disparages.

Critical race theory is a body of thought that seeks to revolutionize society by deconstructing the American system, which it sees as the plinth of “systemic racism,” and replacing it with something that looks a lot like central planning and other Marxist shibboleths.

Environmental, social, and corporate governance principles might be the least understood. It is a way for the woke CEOs of large fund managers to force the corporations into which they invest money to acquiesce to a liberal agenda, be it the boycott of investment in fossil fuel industries or the financial disclosure of racial quotas. (Climatism, after all, is a form of anti-capitalism.)
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This is a good outline of the perversity of liberal language used to push their agenda.  They try hard to avoid being honest about what they are up to by wrapping their description in language to hide what they are up to.