Diversity and Uniformity

President Biden’s Cabinet is supposed to be the most diverse in history.  He and his advisors obviously made a deliberate attempt to include every ethnic group, gender identification, and skin color imaginable. It reminds me of the old adage.

It is quite a common mistake—to find a job for the man, and not the right man for the job.

How is Pete Buttigieg, the new Secretary of Transportation qualified for that job?  Other than being an openly gay man, he was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a depressed and crime-ridden city that he obviously wished to escape. 

One also thinks immediately of Vice-President Kamela Harris. In the Democratic debates leading up to the last election, she appeared to be the least popular of all the candidates and was one of the first to drop out of the race. Even the Democrats did not think she was qualified. Nevertheless, she was hand-picked by Biden because she was a woman, and a dark skinned one as well. 

Unfortunately, there is no diversity of opinion in the President’s Cabinet, or in any of his other appointments. They all think the same way. It is the same thing in the now Democratic controlled Congress. The Democrats pride themselves on their diversity, but all the members of the party must vote the same way no matter what states or districts they represent. Black, White, Male, Female, LGBTQ, what difference does it make? In the recent votes on the proposed stimulus package, Democrats were unanimous in voting as they were told. Who do they really represent?

 It is true that  Republicans were unanimous in opposition but at least a couple of mavericks like Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Liz Cheyney will occasionally step out of line, and invariably gain the plaudits of the liberal media for voting their conscience. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal lauded the seven Republican Senators who voted to impeach President Trump, and quoted Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century political philosopher, on the importance of voting one’s conscience.  Even former Vice President Mike Pence gets plaudits from liberals for certifying the recent election results.  When are Democrats allowed to vote their own conscience?

Despite an abundance of laws and regulations, there is very little diversity throughout the Federal government. We just have to look at the fact that 95% of the vote in the District of Columbia, the National Capitol and center of government, went to Democrat Joe Biden in the last election. The growth of the Federal bureaucracy in the last few decades has even turned neighboring Virginia into a reliable blue state.

It should almost be an axiom that the more people talk about diversity and inclusion, the less they actually believe in it, or really practice what they preach. 

My local newspaper, like most media outlets, is a champion of diversity but its columnists and editorialists all believe the same thing despite differences in color, gender and sexual orientation. No conservative columnist need apply for inclusion. Conservative op-eds and letters rarely appear. Even the dog columnist disliked Trump. Of course, the cartoons, political and otherwise, are invariably left leaning.

Since the election diversity politics has gone a step further. It is no longer enough to censor or suppress dissenting opinions, they must also be branded as dangerous and even criminal. It is now virtually forbidden to investigate charges of fraud in the last election. To even question the official party line is to be branded a right-wing extremist. 

Democrats routinely claim that the country is racist, and sexist, but the diversity movement has become a shield behind which many liberals and progressives hide their own brand of those social ills.

Supreme Court Justice Thomas is a black man but because of his conservatism, he is the wrong kind of black man in the eyes of liberals and progressives. President Biden (Ole White Joe) uttered the most racist remark in the last election, but he got a pass. Remember when he told blacks in South Carolina that if they didn’t vote for him, “they ain’t black.” After all his years in politics, or perhaps because of that, he still does not believe blacks can think for themselves.

Women have made great strides toward equality in the past few decades, but why are only certain types of women eligible for inclusion in the Democratic party, or in the mainstream media? Pro-life women like Amy Coney Barrett are not welcome. Despite their credentials and experience, they hit the glass ceiling. They must be pro-choice, but certainly not pro-school choice like Betsy De Vos. 

There will be little difference of opinion in the Biden cabinet or administration. All of its members, no matter their gender, color, sexual orientation, or whatever,  belong to the “governing class.”

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