If you go woke, you just might go broke.
That would appear to be the dominant message with this year’s iteration of the Summer Olympics. In this case, NBC was the middleman for an Olympics where the great majority of the athletes were not very thrilled at representing the United States.
The American public were not very thrilled at watching this year’s games either, it would seem. For example, on July 26th, the ratings showed that there were 14.7 million people watching the primetime coverage. This is a 49 percent drop from the 2016 Olympics and a 53 percent decline from the 2012 Olympics.
Indeed, these ratings are so hideous that many of the network officials began re-airing commercials for their advertisers without an extra charge!
The Monmouth University polling organization released a poll that showed that 43 percent of Americans did not have that much interest in watching these Olympic games whatsoever.
Patrick Murray of the Polling Institute told Fox News that the reason might have been due to the intense politicization of the games by a select few of the athletes.
“The Olympic spirit is a bit dampened this year,” he said.
“The delay from last year and lack of spectators have taken the edge off the typical anticipation and excitement for this event. But the emergence of Black Lives Matter in the sports world has also led to a backlash among some Americans.”
Hammer throw competitor Gwen Berry made headlines when she turned away from the American flag at the Olympic trials and raised a clenched fist during the Tokyo Games.
“I’m just here to represent, man,” she said last week, CNN reported.
“I know a lot of people like me, a lot of athletes like me, a lot of people are scared to succeed or speak out. As long as I can represent those people, I’m fine.”
Berry also had a conspicuous “X” written right on her hand as a means of protesting during the final.
Fencer Race Imboden also did something similar, and he said that he did so in “support of athletes of color, Ending Gun violence, and all the athletes who wish to use their voice on the platform they’ve earned,” according to CNN.
Shot-putter Raven Saunders crossed her arms during her medal ceremony, explaining later that the gesture was meant to be “the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet.”
Then there is the U.S. soccer captain and the fly-by-night social justice connoisseur Megan Rapinoe, who has led the charge in protest before her team’s games.
However, all of that protesting from Rapinoe ended up being meaningless because she and her crew ultimately wound up finishing a disappointing third in Tokyo.
Do athletes have the right to protest? Sure they do. But, these athletes also need to realize that with their right to protest also comes a regular American’s right to shut off the television completely if they feel that their country is being insulted or disrespected.
Of course, the sad part of it for these Americans is that there were plenty of patriotic athletes on this world stage as well, but these asinine social justice warriors have ended up taking over the establishment media with their fake martyrdom and ruined it for both the rest of the athletes and other decent, god-fearing Americans who just want to enjoy the Olympics without seeing a protest.