First Blog

  Is it not remarkable that this country that has spent the last few generations teaching all students to feel good about themselves, issuing participation trophies to every child, assuring every child is intellectual, and giving increasingly high grades, has abruptly turned on itself, telling all they are racist, greedy, and otherwise evil? Do the activists expect a participation trophy, or to be praised with certainty they are good? You know, condemning another as bad enhances you as good.

The tyranny of correctness.   Currently, we see a reversal within the party of inclusion to a party of intolerance in the name of tolerance.   If you do not agree with me, so they say, you must be racist, sexist, islamophobe, homophobe, or some other -ist or - phobic .   So fantastic are these to be unbelievable.  Usually, you call others the names you would yourself abhor. So, name-calling has a limited reach. They have forgotten what made them great.   They have embraced some easy targets while ignoring all but a couple of large groups, assuming their old-time supporters would continue to support.   They have made the fundamental mistake of assuming those in the tank should damn well stay there. Like Pandora’s box, once released, these forces roam independently. How can they put them back in their tank?   Maybe they will offer more promises, which of course translates into more spending. Maybe they will offer more detractors up to the pillory.   Yet, this