The type of diversity that we seek can actually destroy us.

 CNN has an article out today discussing President Trump's celebration of Black History month and arguing that his effort to halt the use of diversity as a criteria for employment in the government is inconsistent with a celebration of social progress within the black community. I disagree with CNN and wholeheartedly agree with President Trump. Selecting government officials because they were born men, and now wear lipstick, is not a sensible thing to do. Just as denying a person a position because he or she is black is wrong, hiring a person because he or she is black is equally wrong. Job related qualifications should be the criteria, not diversity for diversity's sake.

This argument is ludicrous, and very unfortunately, a comment on the mindlessness of the American people. There. are literally millions of people in this world that are fighting for enough food to stay alive and you and I are pretending that we are engaged in bettering mankind by increasing the social, cultural and racial diversity of our civil service. What we are is much different. We are a bunch of privileged, wimpish, malcontents that were born into wealth beyond belief and are focused on one or another imaginary world invented out of whole cloth and totally unrelated to what is happening outside of our non-existent borders.

People in the rest of the world are jealous of our wealth, and aware of our weaknesses. They play us in different ways depending on their own strengths and weaknesses. Our current fascination with diversity is well understood by our friends and enemies alike and their policies vis-a-vis America are adjusted accordingly. Trump's efforts to change America are not only disturbing the status quo inside this country but also in virtually all of the rest of the world and it goes well beyond diversity. We are presently involved in a major challenge to the status quo in the entire world. There are opportunities and dangers. It is way too bad that the American people refuse to think about what is happening. If we were unified, we could actually change the world for the better, but if we continue to mindlessly urinate on each other we are going to miss the opportunity and risk further complicating and demeaning our future.

It is infinitely ironic that the type of diversity that we seek can actually destroy us.