The new mantra is that we as Americans should go for unity.
The reality of this call is that unity means that we reduce our expectations of the weakest and the least achieving because we all know that there are perpetual victims and we must all suffer as those continue to make poor personal decisions and then find a boogey man under their beds that are keeping them down.
Personally, I am a Libertarian. I will never seek to keep anyone down who actively seeks to honestly approach life and to accept personal responsibility for their personal failures. And I am compassionate enough to know the difference between those who physically and mentally are incapable of taking care of themselves and those who just don't want to get off their couches. Continuing to make personal bad decisions is not grounds for anyone giving a shit about your plight. When you won't lift a finger to save yourself and instead spend time blaming others for your personal failures, then you deserve the bed that you wet repeatedly.
I advocate coming together - I don't profess to believe jack shit in unity. Working together is not being united behind one belief system. In reality, coming together is the anti-thesis of the modern democrat blather of "unity". I'm not asking you to drink the koolaid. Don't dare ask me to drink your piss flavored version.
I'll pick climate change as the first area where we can come together without being united behind a single belief system. At every turn we should all be doing things that minimize the impact on the environment in an unnecessary level. We should find ways to produce all goods in the most economical and pollution minimal way possible. We should be great stewards of our planet instead of polluting at will.
What is repugnant is that those who preach the Ministry of Green are just blowhards and hypocrites. John Fucking Kerry, a Lurch in the 1960's Munsters and a failed Presidential candidate, is now some extraneous leftist who jumps in a pollution belching plane in the name of Climate Change crusade. Unfortunately the pollution he just emitted in one plane stop would have allowed an average family of Americans to live their lives for a year without making one change. Yet, this hypocrite preaches these same Americans give up the car they are free to choose and to drive all while he is holier than thou.
I profess a different vision.
I profess that we can pursue our current economy based on fossil fuels while co-developing and exploring ANY AND ALL ALTERNATIVES and to allow market forces to decide the winner of the future. I rebuke all incentives to oil companies as well as rebuke all incentives to reward early adopters of alternative energy sources.
I believe in allowing everyone to compete on the same economic basis. Prove your electric vehicle can satisfy my life story - an apartment dweller without immediate access to close proximity recharging capability - and to then prove you can build that electric vehicle so that it fits my monthly budget.
By nature, I am a tight wad. I bought a car that gets great gas mileage and I drive in a way that maximizes the fuel economy to fit my budget. I didn't buy a huge SUV or even one of those runts that can't get out of their own way. And I can drive my car under acceleration up an onramp to the interstate at a faster pace than your hybrid. And I probably get nearly the same gas mileage as you do without your pompous attitude.
Nothing about coming together to agree to you live your life and I live mine is polarizing. If I choose to be a tight wad and you want to spend your funds on name brand this and that is not a bad thing. We have what is called freedom - the most precious commodity of all. You should not demand that I pay for your tax credit for an electric vehicle nor should I demand you offset the same portion on my petrol car. But we can be free to choose what we want and to live our lives as we see fit. If you find my petrol car to be distasteful, then shove it. I find your pursuit and lecturing about the superiority of your electric car to be equally vomit-inducing. Shut the fuck up and drive your vehicle with the pleasure I drive mine. Don't dare impose your arbitrary life decisions upon me. And don't expect me to pay for your holier than thou ambitions.
Race is a similar area where we can agree without shoving this shit down each other's throats. We can all agree that your skin color is no more important than mine. We should be free to hire and fire whom we want and to pay the consequences for that choice. We should be able to sell our shit to whom we want regardless of any characteristic. And if we can't sell our shit, then oh fucking well. Poor decisions are our right to make.
Those who claim "the police" are systematically hunting black people are dishonest on the face and are even more repugnant when so many non-whites are actually hired to wear those uniforms. It is therefore impossible to have systemic racism even on outcomes. What is guaranteed with the police is if you act like a jackass, you will find that your treatment is commensurate with your chip on your shoulder. We should respect those who wear the badge regardless of our skin color. And there is no such thing as driving while black these days with tinted windows and high beltlines in cars and less glass area visible to see through. A traffic stop that suggests that you were pulled over because you are black is simply a lie. The police officer in most instances cannot see into your vehicle so it is impossible to profile you by skin color. And if you drive a Cadillac or a vehicle with oversized wheels, then you drive with an immediate identifier like your fabricated names because your mom could not spell the real one.
We should be able to hire whom we want that makes our business the best can be. I was particularly proud that I hired people who had that "twinkle in their eyes" and "how they handled themselves" rather than to give jack shit about your skin color or gender. I was very successful and took some heat for hiring "too many blacks", but the best employees and hires were done without regard to skin color. All I wanted were people who worked their asses off and showed up on time. Beyond that, I would pay above the prevailing wage to retain the best of them even if I would take heat from my same bosses who said my labor costs were higher than my colleagues. But then again, I was having sales growth at twice their annual rate. Coincidence? I think not.
We can work together to solve problems without imposing our own standards as the only standards. Immigration is not rocket science - create a legal system where we bring in the best possible candidates who can make our country best. And then create a limited system for handling true political oppression admissions; but we should never forget people who are too afraid from undertaking the American experience of revolution over tyranny is not grounds to allow unlimited cases to run to us like we are their toilet. We can proudly come together to establish legal immigration while doing everything in our power to keep out invaders who choose not to obey our laws. That is not heartless - that is respect for our country and for our citizens. If we are having a hard time employing our own hardship case citizens, then we don't need to be dumping human debris from somewhere else which compound our problem.
Come together to share our experiences but never do it to force one way of life onto another citizen. We are at our best when we undertake freedom of choice and we allow winners and losers to appear by the best options; we should not limit the options by political ideology.
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