AJ McCarron’s mom was right about Winston's speaking ability, but we all now know that truth is no defense when dealing with a protected class. We can expect more and more protected classes as King Flimflam’s “equality” push takes hold among the young know nothings. Instead of seeking to raise young Jameis’ ability to speak the King’s English to an average level, we will instead, under King Subpar, bring everyone else down to Jameis’ level.
Instead of raising Jameis up a level where he is capable of speaking like an average guy, so as not sound like an ignorant fool or worse stupid thug, the king’s equality program will seek to make everyone sound as ignorant as Jameis. Or at least not ask, “How the hell does a guy that cannot speak graduate high school and get accepted to a well known college?” We all know the answer to the second question. He can throw a football with great accuracy. The link above explains the answer to the first.
In the name of diversity, our universities are now monuments to sameness of thought, to the extent that any thinking is taking place on today’s campus. Victor Davis Hanson noted that there is a rise in the number of degrees in “studies” of all sorts, African studies, women’s studies, transgender studies, etc. where the only criterion for grades is the degree with which a student is able to demonstrate that he agrees with the professor. Sameness!
There are two ways to achieve “equality.” First, endeavor to raise the Jameis Winston’s of the world up to a minimally accepted standard. Second is to bring everyone else down to a lower standard whereby Winston is the average. Unachievable utopias start by trying to bring people up. When that task proves to be too difficult, there is but one alternative, bring everyone down. That is much easier. Through taxes and regulation and an Attorney General who protects “his people” above all others, an onerous government can punish achievers and reward sloth. That is were we are.
Banking regulations reward spending and punish saving. They encourage loaning money to people who have no reasonable expectation of being able to repay the loan while making it appear downright foolish to save money at1-2% interest. You can make more money spending it with a credit card that gives you 2-3% cash back on your spending.
Idiocy like Robertscare gets passed through congress because when the law is passed or shortly thereafter congress exempts themselves and their cronies from the sting of liberty sapping legislation they pass on the rest of us in the name of equality.
These things never end well for the societies that engage in them.
And remember, it all starts with the nearly unassailable notion of government forced “equality.” Who is against “equality?” When it proves too difficult for the government to raise people up, it will resort to bringing people down. All in the name of “equality.”
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From the Griffin....
Like the old style USSR of equality where the workers pretended to work a job, and the government pretended to pay them. A case in point is the collapse of East Germany. As West Germany attempted to integrate the East Germans, it found it would take a generation and a depleted treasury, before the absorbed East German workers could be productive. It may take Russia 2-3 generations.
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