Last Updated on 28 April 2026

After another assassination attempt against the U.S. president, it is worth looking beyond the individual event and asking what kind of society produces this level of hatred and fragmentation. Across the U.S. and Western Europe, long-term forces are converging into real political and cultural rupture: the decline of Christianity, the rise of liberal individualism, gender ideology, mass immigration and the weakening of border control. These forces have not simply changed Western societies. Together, they weakened the shared moral language that once allowed Western societies to argue within the same framework. They have divided societies into groups that no longer agree on the basic rules of the game.

The word “Woke” originally meant being awake to injustice, especially racial injustice. But modern Wokeism is no longer just awareness. It has become an ideological system that seeks to redefine society itself: race, gender, family, language, history, merit, and even biological reality. What began as a demand for tolerance has often become a demand for obedience. The clearest example is gender ideology. At its deepest level, it is not only a debate about rights or compassion- it is a claim about human nature. It says that man is not bound by the body, nature, tradition or God, but can define and create himself completely. In that sense, it is the endpoint of extreme liberalism: the individual no longer asks for freedom within reality, but freedom from reality itself. We become our own creators, deciding even what was once understood as given at birth. This is where Wokeism becomes a secular religion of self-deification: man replacing God with himself.

Fundamentalism is usually associated with religion, but it can be viewed as a reaction against a world that has lost limits. It begins when people feel that modern society has gone too far: too much freedom, too much confusion, too much decision making and a destruction of inherited truth. The fundamentalist answer is to return to absolutes. It offers certainty where society offers doubt, order where society offers chaos, and boundaries where society offers endless choice. But fundamentalism is not simply strong faith or deep tradition. It is faith hardened into ideology. It turns sacred truths into weapons and treats compromise as weakness. The fundamentalist does not see disagreement as disagreement, but as corruption, betrayal or heresy. This is why fundamentalism is dangerous: it replaces humility before truth with the enforcement of purity, enemies and punishment for dissent.

This explains the strange connection between the Woke Left and Islam. They do not share the same final goals. On women, sexuality, religion and freedom, they are often completely opposed. Their connection is not based on a shared worldview, but on a shared enemy. Both are hostile to the old Western order: Christianity, national identity, traditional hierarchy, and the liberal nation-state. The Woke Left sees Islam mainly as an oppressed identity. Political Islam sees Wokeism as a useful force weakening Western confidence from within. The same fundamentalist pattern also appears on parts of the radical right: moral absolutism, purity, enemies, and rejection of compromise. They are closer than they might think: they feed each other and feed on each other.

So the pattern is clear: secularism + freedom = Wokeism. Expansionary religion + no freedom = fundamentalism. These are natural outcomes of human nature, as people need meaning, limits and direction. When God disappears from a free society, the individual eventually tries to replace Him. The self becomes sacred, identity becomes destiny and personal desire becomes truth. That is Wokeism: man declaring himself creator, having the final say about morality, truth and gender. When an expansionary religion exists without freedom, the opposite happens: the individual disappears into the sacred order, and faith becomes control, conquest and punishment. One side says, “I am God.” The other says, “Only my God may rule”. They seem like complete opposites, but they are bound by the same rejection of the old Western balance: freedom under limits. Wokeism needs boundaries because it turns the individual into God. Fundamentalism needs freedom because it turns God into a weapon. Without that balance, society does not become tolerant. It becomes tribal, absolute and violent.