Article by Frank Liberator in The American Thinker
As every kid knows, you can’t force friendship
Friendship
and affection have to be given freely. You can’t force someone to like
you, just as you can’t be forced to like another person or even a group
of people. Any attempt at this type of coercion will likely produce the
opposite result.
Progressives
want to use the power of government to codify favoritism and then
manufacture kinship. That’s hardly a recipe for success. Nevertheless,
they seem determined to force the issue until the country is so
polarized that we can no longer see any common ground.
The
left has heralded sensitivity training and instruction in critical race
theory as the solution to America’s race and gender issues. Instead,
they are no more than a thinly disguised form of coercion. Any
appearance of success is more than likely just a veil that individuals
wear to protect themselves from further abuse or even job loss.
How
long before the state prosecutes people not only for what they believe
you’re thinking, as in hate crimes but also for what they believe you’re
not thinking, as in “you’re not really learning what we taught you in
re-education camp”? A nation of automatons hardly seems like a
productive use of resources. A great deal of time and money would be
required to purge any unacceptable thoughts from an entire population
and this “education” will have to be repeated with each new generation.
The public schools are working on it already but if their success rate
is equal to their rate in teaching academic subjects, it’ll be a rocky
process.
The
best path to a relatively colorblind society seems to be through virtue
and success. People will respect each other if they share common goals
and values. America’s objective has long been for all people to have the
same opportunity to go as far as their skills and gumption will take
them and for our laws to be applied equally across the board. It’s a
work in progress but we were making great strides until the “modern
era.”
People
will gravitate to like-minded individuals regardless of race as long as
they’re all a part of a wholesome and prosperous country that’s not
obsessed with skin color. There will always be exceptions but that is
what it means to be human. We’re not all of one mind and one point of
view.
The
left perpetually sermonizes about diversity while trying, all the
while, to shut down freedom of speech. In a truly colorblind society,
the greatest diversity would be diversity of thought and expression.
This is seen as unacceptable in today’s liberal world. Anyone who thinks
outside the box is dangerous and must be shut down.
Ours
is not a perfect society but no society is. History shows, though, that
the attempt to create a utopian world always ends up with tyranny and
oppression. The Founders’ wisdom planned a limited government that would
defend the country, provide an even playing field for people to
prosper, and make sure that it doesn’t do much of anything else. The
people are responsible for their own happiness. That is the American
way. It hasn’t always lived up to the ideal, and we’ve strayed quite a
bit from the original plan, but we continue striving to get there and,
by comparison to other nations, it has worked remarkably well.
Leftists
know that their fixation on race and ethnicity is destructive, but they
have calculated that power arises by dividing and conquering. By trying
to force our kinship through government action, they’re instead driving
a wedge between us. They seem to want us perpetually at each other’s
throats so they can look down from their lofty perches, squawk about how
despicable we all are, and then corral all the votes that the division
has wrought. The corrupt and sickly media dutifully echoes all their
talking points, and the beat goes on.
President
Trump has been called a racist nonstop since 2015. I’m confident that
there is not a racist bone in his body but that had nothing to do with
it. Progressives had to endlessly repeat that narrative to keep a grip
on the African American vote which they knew was in peril right up until
the pandemic hit. Trump’s roaring economy lifted all boats and, had
COVID not provided the left with the opportunity to devastate American
employment, I’m sure he then would have carried enough of the black vote
to lift him past all the fraud.
Trump’s
first three years do, however, provide us with an example of what a
healthy, robust economy can do for unity. Even in the midst of the most
vicious lies ever perpetrated by an American political party and their
twisted news media enablers, we were doing pretty darn well.
When
we’re all doing well there is just no reason not to get along. With
success comes kinship. Harmony is linked to freedom and prosperity.
Coercion breeds misery and strife.
