Procrasti-nation

Well hello everyone, this post is about quotas and racial representation. It is about how America a long time ago could have found means to require that multiple demographics have adequate government representation but instead relied on slow political progress that became more skewed in certain political direction.  Like to gain the seats, an ideological trade-off had to happen.  It could be that some of it worked out in a fitting way. However, I am not sure that indirect progress has been the most honest process, and it certainly was inefficient to the tune of hundreds of years. Cops have quotas that they fill with black bodies, now dead half of the time, but America couldn’t allocate a percentage of government roles for the diverse population it brags about?

I’ve always been from the more conservative part of the country, and I drift along hoping for the best, changing my mind sometimes about a lot of things. But one thing I have to say now is that if people can’t tolerate accepting the candidates who win fair and square, then they are monstrously blind to the supernatural patience of people who have tolerated an obvious, indisputable and deliberate government exclusion for their whole lives. It doesn’t get more hypocritical from a country that emerged from fighting taxation without representation, and it isn’t a coincidence that the leaders are more racist mascots than some sports teams still out there.

Present Tense

Well hello everyone, time for a mad blog post. This one is more political than usual. Usually I go for the every day policies. But this is a reaction to an interview where I saw the new republican VP candidate insult a whole demographic. It was JD Vance telling Tucker Carlson that the childless liberals weren’t truly invested in the future of the country because they had no literal offspring. He went on to call them (us) miserable cat ladies living in one-bedroom apartments in New York City.

This is really sad for me to hear, hurtful in some ways, but mostly disturbing and alarming. One problem with his critique is that it is definitively ignorant to blindly degrade a segment of the population that is different from your own.  It suggests that liberty and justice for all is not the true goal, but instead wealth and power for some, with fame for himself no doubt. 

But I also offer a response that is a more powerful argument against his judgemental assumption. Not only might these childless people have invested in their communities and the future instead of family, but it could be that having children might also create a bias of caring about your kids instead of other people’s kids. So how will that play out for the future of a country?  That could be why some of the bad conservatives are so opposed to providing things like school lunches and emergency hygiene products for middle schoolers.  It is hard to believe, and yet I do recall being treated like garbage as a retail worker when parents were looking for something for their kids.  All they cared about was getting their kid what they wanted, and they would torture and kill over it. Okay, that’s a bit much, maybe, but I am just saying that people can spin stuff in the other direction too, if we all didn’t already know better anyway.