# I'm starting to get the feeling that the conservative right is winning **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 2, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-get-the-feeling-that-the-conservative-right-is-winning/945477 "2021-07-02T05:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 201
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-get-the-feeling-that-the-conservative-right-is-winning/945477/201 "2021-07-08T21:48:23Z")
> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > The phrase I recall is “Get Woke” and it was all over my Facebook feed a few years ago and there were some pop culture references associated with the phrase from that time. I tried looking up a few of them, but the term seems to have been superseded on Google by “Get Woke, Go Broke.” [I noted that before elsewhere in the sdmb.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-honest-attempt-to-see-the-other-side-by-a-progressive/926354/342) > **[Alt-right glossary](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Get_woke.2C_go_broke)** > > The alt-right uses a lexicon filled with memes, stolen left-wing terminology with altered meanings, and in-jokes. Whether this is because the alt-right consists of a bunch of cringey manchildren or because they hope to hide their racist intentions,... > The phrase **Get woke, go broke** is a [right-wing](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Right-wing) form of [schadenfreude](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Schadenfreude), specifically directed at [media](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Media) or cultural ventures that lose money and/or popularity when they become (if they weren’t already) [woke](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Woke). This phrase is repeated in a mocking sense _[ad nauseam](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ad_nauseam)_ in online forums and social media circles frequented by the alt-right and neoreactionaries whenever a “woke” venture goes “broke”. Interestingly, users of this phrase seem to stay quiet when woke ventures succeed. > > This phrase can also mean that things that are “woke” have become [morally](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Moral) and intellectually bankrupt, but the former usage is far more common. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-get-the-feeling-that-the-conservative-right-is-winning/945477)._