The “group identity” events in “Blue” cities across this Great Country over the last 2+ months should make US all sit up and take notice of where we have dared to go as a Culture. Now, as we are considering the upcoming elections this Fall, I’m becoming more convinced every day that I must just be a racist. This must be the conclusion that any US Citizen should reach in the modern day world of “identity politics”. And not only am I a racist, I must believe that I’m also a homophobe, a sexist, an islamaphobe and if they allowed animals (other than humans) to vote in elections, I’m sure I’d be seen as an “furaphobe”.
But in fact, I’m just a US Citizen who wants the best people to be elected to the offices for which they are best suited to serve. Can anyone explain to me why this has become such an offensive attitude? Does the fact that I believe that good policy for one US Citizen should just be good policy for EVERY US Citizen make me a hater? Does the fact that I believe in EQUAL opportunity for all, not that outcomes should be guaranteed, mean I’m prejudiced against ANY one group of Citizens? Does the statement that “All Lives Matter” mean that any lives are inferior? I don’t think so!
How did we “evolve” to the point where a person’s skin color, or sex, or sexual orientation, or religion, or country of origin or whatever defines who that person should support in any given election? I know that I’m a really strange US Citizen in today’s America, but I believe that God created each of us, unique as we are, in His Image as individuals. And He gave each and every one of us the freewill to make decisions based on our thoughts and, more so, on our conscience. So, why do we now lump everybody in to a “demographic”? And at what point in time did the individual US Citizen become a nothing?
I ask this because at EVERY campaign event or in EVERY conversation, it is critical that the candidate being discussed must appeal to say, single women Voters. Or appeal to Hispanic Voters. Or does this or that for Black Voters. Or stands on this policy for Evangelical Voters. Or doesn’t say or do this to offend the LGBTQ Voters. It seems that we now look at every single policy or position because of how it affects this or that particular group. So I guess this makes me a racist or a “phobe” of some sort because I understand that if we do “something” FOR one special interest group, that same “something” does things AGAINST every other US Citizen who is not part of the group.
I’ve got a really unique idea, how about politicians only propose policies that are good for EVERY US Citizen? Wouldn’t that be refreshing? What would happen if any Democrat/Republican/Libertarian/Independent (your choice) candidate said that they weren’t going to do this special set aside for the (pick the special interest group) Voters because that discriminates against every other US Citizen? There would be this really loud noise, heard across the Nation, as the panderers’ and political consultants’ heads exploded in mass. But isn’t that what the Founders envisioned when they wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”?
Oh well, I guess our Founders were racists too? That just makes me feel like I’m in excellent company!
God Bless America! And America, Please Bless God Again!
