The woke boogeyman scares us because it, itself, is a set of false threats that are distracting us from real threats.

Like, we're worried about war, a shifting global power structure, the degradation of systems of detente that keep the worst in humanity from emerging, and the woke crowd wants us to treat the feelings of exclusion of trans people as the most important threat on the board.

The woke movement is a boogeyman movement, and that's why we treat it as dangerous. The woke movement is a push to get new boogeymen added to our threat list and moved to top priority over things we know will actually kill us.

And thing that really, really scares us, is that the system that has proven to be the salve for the ills of massive unleashed violence, the system we call free market economics, is being targeted by the woke crowd because they refuse to read the history of the things they're proposing. They're all like "we don't want people to suffer so let's abolish private property". That's like saying "we don't want people to drown, and people tend to drown when they're near boats, so let's destroy this boat we're all in, to prevent drowning!"

It's terrifying to us because there are serious things to be afraid of, and the woke movement is asking us to ignore or even embrace those things.