Bethany Mandel is a sweet, wholesome, middle class    lady from the Jersey    (that is not an oxymoron). She is not by training, a revolutionary, or counter revolutionary, a Red or White. Seemingly, she received her position as a Defender of Western values by the warrant of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.    She made quite a stir this week when she was asked to define the term “WOKE” and froze.   “Bethany Mandel, who writes a weekly  column  for the Deseret News, is under fire after struggling to define "woke" in a TV interview about a  book  she co-authored that claims "woke indoctrinators" threaten kids' happiness.   What she said:  While promoting her book last week on  The Hill's  daily news show " Rising ," host Briahna Joy Gray asked her to define the term "woke," after Mandel said the left is pushing a "woke reimagining" of victimhood.   Mandel stammered for about 30 seconds saying, "This is going to be one of those

It was recently brought to this Blogger’s attention that if he stays alive a mite longer, he may well  be  the last living American to have shaken hands with Alexander Kerensky . Kerensky was a good guy, a Russian version of American President Jimmy Carter; he was Premier of the government which fell to the Bolsheviks. That might well be true, for this Blogger was at least fifteen years younger than any other participant at the seminar.   Kerensky could have saved the world from Communism; for as Premier, he had Lenin in his jail, at his mercy. But he did not disappear him, for Lenin was a family friend, who had been taught by Kerensky’s father.  Such is history.   This Blogger may also soon be the last living American to know men who participated in the Communist Red Terror of the Bolsheviks. This Blogger’s father knew many old Trotskyites; before they were Trotskyites, they were Bolsheviks. Stalinists   chased into exile, or the Gulag or onto their   knees for the bullet in the back