Nice balanced essay on a topic that still gets too much emotionally motivated commentary from both sides. Trump is not a savior, certainly not the Savior. He has opened a large breathing space in which much can be accomplished, given time. The real time failures of DEI, responsible lately for some actual deaths and near deaths, directly and obliquely, through qualifying the unqualified and pushing out the more likely qualified, has resulted in a firm rather than equivocal dismissal of its power.
It doesn’t hurt that Europe is being called out on its attempts to banish free speech and elections forever. People are noticing. This must be a good thing in the long run.
I quite agree. DEI was a bad idea to begin with. It was bound to end eventually.
My take on Trump's initiative is it will do much good, even if some are cynical about the reasons behind it. I also think Vance is quite sincere in his comments he made to European leaders in Munich.
The final element is the elites and powerful people are not gods. All that cash gets you far, but you can't cheat real life. I felt DEI and related initiatives had simply run their course. They were never going to end well.
As for the clampdown in Europe, that too will not last. It is becoming ridiculous. Europe's elites are on their way out.
If you - as an individual, a member of a family, and of a people - are centered and grounded to an instinctual and autonomous level in who and what you are, any attack against that will be one made by an enemy.
So, the enemy's identity will always be whomever attacks you and yours.
For a practical example, look at Arab and Pakistani Moslems.
I have been thinking about your comment. In a way the globalists are like an infection. A healthy body fights them off. But as we weaken, as we become distracted, they overwhelm us.
I see very few who can see beyond mainstream talking points. This was true during Covid too. So propaganda and lack of awareness play their part.
I didn’t vote for Trump or the DEI hire, and his performance has steadily gone down hill since his inauguration. There were nevertheless three executive orders (EO’s) that Trump signed early that are worthy of support by everyone across the moderate political spectrum
The first of these EO’s recognizes that open borders are politically unacceptable and that the age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. They need to voluntarily reduce their own country's population to an environmentally sustainable level, stay home and work there to improve their living conditions.
His second important EO addresses the insanity of gender identity which denies the reality of human sexuality and results in men invading women’s sports, restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. Women need and are entitled to privacy from men. Even more diabolical is the mutilation of innocent children (many who would grow up gay) in pursuit of the impossible because you can’t change your birth sex.
Finally his EO that corrects the craziness of DEI which discriminates against whites, Asians and men in attempting to cure past discrimination against others is absolutely the correct approach. Who could believe that creating a new privileged class and a new discriminated against class would provide a solution to the problem? Not to mention that it’s clearly unconstitutional.
It would well serve both Democrats and independents to get behind these changes even as they choose to vigorously oppose the increasingly crazy aspects of his agenda.
They will never get behind these things. They have become a religion. I know people fanatical about open borders. There is no reason behind it. Same for DEI and all the rest. Trump's approach is the right one, just ban it.
All retreats are tactical, until you're defeated or can counter-attack.
All retreats are intended to make the enemy over-extend and over-exert himself so you can trap him, encircle, cut off and destroy in detail his advancing forces, before you Blitzkrieg straight through his line and spread out to ravage his staging areas, and optimally start rolling up his line until it breaks and flees in a panic.
Which is when you employ light cavalry or modern equivalents to keep him running, ideally running him down even.
Nice balanced essay on a topic that still gets too much emotionally motivated commentary from both sides. Trump is not a savior, certainly not the Savior. He has opened a large breathing space in which much can be accomplished, given time. The real time failures of DEI, responsible lately for some actual deaths and near deaths, directly and obliquely, through qualifying the unqualified and pushing out the more likely qualified, has resulted in a firm rather than equivocal dismissal of its power.
It doesn’t hurt that Europe is being called out on its attempts to banish free speech and elections forever. People are noticing. This must be a good thing in the long run.
I quite agree. DEI was a bad idea to begin with. It was bound to end eventually.
My take on Trump's initiative is it will do much good, even if some are cynical about the reasons behind it. I also think Vance is quite sincere in his comments he made to European leaders in Munich.
The final element is the elites and powerful people are not gods. All that cash gets you far, but you can't cheat real life. I felt DEI and related initiatives had simply run their course. They were never going to end well.
As for the clampdown in Europe, that too will not last. It is becoming ridiculous. Europe's elites are on their way out.
I can get onboard with the divide and conquer theory but that leads to the question of who exactly is doing the dividing? And why?
Hard to fight an enemy you can't identify.
Globalist elites would be the common label. Exactly who they are is another matter.
You can flip the question around:
If you - as an individual, a member of a family, and of a people - are centered and grounded to an instinctual and autonomous level in who and what you are, any attack against that will be one made by an enemy.
So, the enemy's identity will always be whomever attacks you and yours.
For a practical example, look at Arab and Pakistani Moslems.
Loved reading this🥰. Balanced, insightful and optimistic, all 3 of which we need magnitudes more of.
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
The evil globalists are always waiting in the wings if a culture falters in virtue. It is our weakness that lets them in, not their existence.
Take any time in history were a virtuous culture faltered and we will find very similar group in regards to political and moral vices.
I quite agree. Many are distracted. Few even care. Such things are exploitable.
I have been thinking about your comment. In a way the globalists are like an infection. A healthy body fights them off. But as we weaken, as we become distracted, they overwhelm us.
I see very few who can see beyond mainstream talking points. This was true during Covid too. So propaganda and lack of awareness play their part.
I didn’t vote for Trump or the DEI hire, and his performance has steadily gone down hill since his inauguration. There were nevertheless three executive orders (EO’s) that Trump signed early that are worthy of support by everyone across the moderate political spectrum
The first of these EO’s recognizes that open borders are politically unacceptable and that the age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. They need to voluntarily reduce their own country's population to an environmentally sustainable level, stay home and work there to improve their living conditions.
His second important EO addresses the insanity of gender identity which denies the reality of human sexuality and results in men invading women’s sports, restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. Women need and are entitled to privacy from men. Even more diabolical is the mutilation of innocent children (many who would grow up gay) in pursuit of the impossible because you can’t change your birth sex.
Finally his EO that corrects the craziness of DEI which discriminates against whites, Asians and men in attempting to cure past discrimination against others is absolutely the correct approach. Who could believe that creating a new privileged class and a new discriminated against class would provide a solution to the problem? Not to mention that it’s clearly unconstitutional.
It would well serve both Democrats and independents to get behind these changes even as they choose to vigorously oppose the increasingly crazy aspects of his agenda.
They will never get behind these things. They have become a religion. I know people fanatical about open borders. There is no reason behind it. Same for DEI and all the rest. Trump's approach is the right one, just ban it.
All retreats are tactical, until you're defeated or can counter-attack.
All retreats are intended to make the enemy over-extend and over-exert himself so you can trap him, encircle, cut off and destroy in detail his advancing forces, before you Blitzkrieg straight through his line and spread out to ravage his staging areas, and optimally start rolling up his line until it breaks and flees in a panic.
Which is when you employ light cavalry or modern equivalents to keep him running, ideally running him down even.
Of course, he's trying to do the same to you.
Perhaps. Or it could be a sincere dismantling of DEI.