Love this post. Positive, clear problem with solution and doable. Our Nation desperately needs this and other similar changes to get us back on-track to the foundations laid out by our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. It really is rather simple, and it really is very hard.
As a division officer, I tried to treat all of my people as adults capable of adult behavior, and worthy of MY loyalty. Shipmates. In short, I treated all of my people as American Blue Jackets. I did that even after we started into the “Rights and Responsibility” era of DEI because I had higher standards for them and for me.
Love your optimism. Wish I shared it for my kids' sake at least. But I think we are at the edge of the precipice. Hard times are ahead, and our ruling elite is not up to the task. To the contrary, they have helped drive us to the edge. The system won't just revert to the mean. No, it's unstable. These times will be more than just interesting.
Love your optimism. BUT...Votes vs ballots. "Fortifying" an election (see the article published in Time Magazine https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ . Put away the supposedly "crazy" conspiracy theories about elections, and just look at what is admitted to and agreed upon regarding election "influence" by the media and government agencies (and it's legal!). When I do that, have to wonder how we get any meaningful change to the current trajectory regarding DEI.
"At some point there will be Executive Branch leadership that will issue similar directives most likely first to the military services. "
As I recall, we already had one, but the Defense Department and military leaders ignored the order, and the DC Let's-Pretend-there-are-two-Parties Party conspired with the "Intelligence Community" to remove him.
Good points. Time to eliminate the Commissars root and branch.
The FY 2024 SELRES and TAR CPO results were released this week, and the documents have been slowly released since Tuesday. Checking this morning, they posted the Diversity statistics For the force as a whole, 28% of board eligible sailors were selected (including myself). What's interesting is minority status (not white or decline to respond) had 2% greater rate, being a woman in general had a 7% greater rate. Minority women had a selection rate of 11% greater than the rest of the force.
Now, my observation on women in the Reserves has been they're bimodal. Either top notch, ready to go sailors across the board, or barely making standards. Minority personnel? Mixed. However, a decade or more time does tend to weed out the whiners. Do most of them deserve it? Yes. I just wish our board process was more transparent.
One might think that the costs of war would have the effect of leveling out the diversity and inclusion dips and bumps; because, well, we're all in the same boat (sinking.....or swamping at best).
Not so. The entire "diversity" nonsense can be boiled down to a conflict between the "have, and have nots". Period. The vast majority of those who are "have nots"; by whatever cause, have decided that the "haves" are responsible for their lot.
Those who "have" either ignore the problems and hope that they go away, or latch onto being spokespersons for the "have nots"; thus garnering press, kudos, and monetary gain as supposed champions for the great Unwashed. It is shameful.
But, war is coming.
First.
As the vicissitudes of war will mean that the greater harm is brought to the "have nots" (as was perceived to be during the Viet Nam War) our society will still be embroiled in divisive domestic conflict.
But still..........War is coming.
It will be sooner than most believe. It is a far, far greater danger than any other domestic squabble.
Equal opportunity is the path to defeat the racist roadblocks that prohibit black and brown folks from fully participating in society. But, equal opportunity does not mean equal outcomes. It is an egalitarian concept in harmony with our founding documents. The idea in our constitution and Bill of Rights is the notion that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
The problem with DEI is not just that it is a self perpetuating racket, but, that it is not egalitarian. Folks, black, brown, and white, all deserve an opportunity to succeed; but success is not guaranteed, only fair competition is. Quotas are the opposite of an egalitarian "level playing field." Determining in advance that five brown boys, six black women and twenty whites will be the winners does not make for a fair competition. Equal opportunity should be the goal.
Executive action is great, but the legal structures that support the diversity hustle must be removed. Hate crime laws, civil rights acts etc... need to come off the books.
Apologies if this is obvious, but the photo and words are from "Master and Commander", which I say is the most first rate film of its type since "Captain Blood", which my father saw in the theater at age 11.
Love this post. Positive, clear problem with solution and doable. Our Nation desperately needs this and other similar changes to get us back on-track to the foundations laid out by our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. It really is rather simple, and it really is very hard.
As a division officer, I tried to treat all of my people as adults capable of adult behavior, and worthy of MY loyalty. Shipmates. In short, I treated all of my people as American Blue Jackets. I did that even after we started into the “Rights and Responsibility” era of DEI because I had higher standards for them and for me.
Love your optimism. Wish I shared it for my kids' sake at least. But I think we are at the edge of the precipice. Hard times are ahead, and our ruling elite is not up to the task. To the contrary, they have helped drive us to the edge. The system won't just revert to the mean. No, it's unstable. These times will be more than just interesting.
Love your optimism. BUT...Votes vs ballots. "Fortifying" an election (see the article published in Time Magazine https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ . Put away the supposedly "crazy" conspiracy theories about elections, and just look at what is admitted to and agreed upon regarding election "influence" by the media and government agencies (and it's legal!). When I do that, have to wonder how we get any meaningful change to the current trajectory regarding DEI.
"At some point there will be Executive Branch leadership that will issue similar directives most likely first to the military services. "
As I recall, we already had one, but the Defense Department and military leaders ignored the order, and the DC Let's-Pretend-there-are-two-Parties Party conspired with the "Intelligence Community" to remove him.
Sal hits the nail on the head!
YES!!!! Thank you!!!
I thing we should all read Chris Rufo’s latest book “America’s Cultural Revolution”
Good points. Time to eliminate the Commissars root and branch.
The FY 2024 SELRES and TAR CPO results were released this week, and the documents have been slowly released since Tuesday. Checking this morning, they posted the Diversity statistics For the force as a whole, 28% of board eligible sailors were selected (including myself). What's interesting is minority status (not white or decline to respond) had 2% greater rate, being a woman in general had a 7% greater rate. Minority women had a selection rate of 11% greater than the rest of the force.
Now, my observation on women in the Reserves has been they're bimodal. Either top notch, ready to go sailors across the board, or barely making standards. Minority personnel? Mixed. However, a decade or more time does tend to weed out the whiners. Do most of them deserve it? Yes. I just wish our board process was more transparent.
War is coming.
One might think that the costs of war would have the effect of leveling out the diversity and inclusion dips and bumps; because, well, we're all in the same boat (sinking.....or swamping at best).
Not so. The entire "diversity" nonsense can be boiled down to a conflict between the "have, and have nots". Period. The vast majority of those who are "have nots"; by whatever cause, have decided that the "haves" are responsible for their lot.
Those who "have" either ignore the problems and hope that they go away, or latch onto being spokespersons for the "have nots"; thus garnering press, kudos, and monetary gain as supposed champions for the great Unwashed. It is shameful.
But, war is coming.
First.
As the vicissitudes of war will mean that the greater harm is brought to the "have nots" (as was perceived to be during the Viet Nam War) our society will still be embroiled in divisive domestic conflict.
But still..........War is coming.
It will be sooner than most believe. It is a far, far greater danger than any other domestic squabble.
Diversity dies with the first hostile inbound.
Equal opportunity is the path to defeat the racist roadblocks that prohibit black and brown folks from fully participating in society. But, equal opportunity does not mean equal outcomes. It is an egalitarian concept in harmony with our founding documents. The idea in our constitution and Bill of Rights is the notion that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
The problem with DEI is not just that it is a self perpetuating racket, but, that it is not egalitarian. Folks, black, brown, and white, all deserve an opportunity to succeed; but success is not guaranteed, only fair competition is. Quotas are the opposite of an egalitarian "level playing field." Determining in advance that five brown boys, six black women and twenty whites will be the winners does not make for a fair competition. Equal opportunity should be the goal.
Executive action is great, but the legal structures that support the diversity hustle must be removed. Hate crime laws, civil rights acts etc... need to come off the books.
Anyone visiting Rome please take the time to visit this guy's grave and pay homage as you deem appropriate.
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"Hold Fast".
Apologies if this is obvious, but the photo and words are from "Master and Commander", which I say is the most first rate film of its type since "Captain Blood", which my father saw in the theater at age 11.
He was very impressed, as was I.
Been there done that, I agree, sadly war will be so fast it will be over before folks even notice.
As for command billets, errant air strikes and short rounds may be ab fact of life for those in command billets.
First Strike on US soil ends all that.