Two premises about human beings are at the heart of the social democratic agenda: What I will label "the equality premise" and "the New Man premise."
The equality premise says that, in a fair society, different groups of people--men and women, blacks and whites, straights and gays, the children of poor people and the children of rich people--will naturally have the same distributions of outcomes in life--the same mean income, the same mean educational attainment, the same proportions who become janitors and CEOs.
When that doesn't happen, it is because of bad human behavior and an unfair society. For the last forty years, this premise has justified thousands of pages of government regulations and legislation that has reached into everything from the paperwork required to fire someone to the funding of high school wrestling teams. Everything that we associate with the phrase "politically correct" eventually comes back to the equality premise. Every form of affirmative action derives from it. Much of the Democratic Party's proposed domestic legislation assumes that it is true.
Within a decade, no one will try to defend the equality premise. All sorts of groups will be known to differ in qualities that affect what professions they choose, how much money they make, and how they live their lives in all sorts of ways. Gender differences will be first, because the growth in knowledge about the ways that men and women are different is growing by far the most rapidly. I'm betting that the Harvard faculty of the year 2020 will look back on the Larry Summers affair in the same way that they think about the Scopes trial--the enlightened versus the benighted--and will have achieved complete amnesia about their own formerly benighted opinions.
Who knows.
But one thing is for certain, reality (and the consequences of ignoring it) cannot be stifled forever.
And as the collapse of America's infrastructure continues (we may see "ups" in the short term economy but overall the standard of living will continue to decline rapidly) the shinny gloss of liberal inertia will wear off and the basic needs of food, shelter, SAFETY AND STABILITY will overwhelm any lingering inclinations to "We are the world".
The forces of the Left know this.
But they continue on, becoming ever more brash in their open hostility for Western Civilization, because they are simply driven by an urge to destroy....nothing more.
Their long term goals and vision is of a wasteland. They have (or seek) nothing to replace The West once it is gone, because their entire mode of thought feeds SOLELY off of contempt for The West and a desire to destroy it.....nothing more.
The Left is a mighty foe, but it is no dragon. It is more like an empty void which the incautious often tumble into.
But it is nothing more.
An adversary so bereft of form and thought (though it may ravage the land for a little while) is, in the end, easily toppled.
And so it will be....
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