When the best isn’t the best

[LDB]

Regardless of one’s political leanings or expressed feelings regarding the military one thing is certain. When the you know what hits the fan everyone wants the military to be the best of any military force in existence. That’s what’s in the core of every truth telling individual. They don’t want good or ok or tolerable or passable. They want the best protecting and defending them.

The problem comes when liberals let their feelings trump their brains, a sadly common occurrence. When their feelings engage in gear their brains shift into neutral. It’s those times when what’s right no longer matters, only what feels good and sounds good. Case in point, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission. This group notes the military leadership is not as diverse as the nation it serves. They mention women and minorities. There have been good candidates, Col. Allen West being a prime example.

The problem is when diversity is the most important rather than the best being most important. Are we going to solicit criminal aliens for part of our military leadership? Liberals have certainly courted and encouraged them in our society. To represent the nation they serve we’d have to have a very very large number of criminal aliens in the ranks and the leadership.

Why is race important in college admissions? Why is race even allowed on the admission application? What difference does it make in how well a student learns? How does knowing an applicant’s race change their grades, their SAT scores, their admission essay? Why should anyone care when the best will be revealed by their grades and essays? Oh, yes, I recall now. We don’t care about the best. We only care about the quotas. If we’re liberals that is.

Is there an area left where truly being the best is the only criteria? I can’t think of any. We’ve not only let liberalism devalue being the best, we’ve allowed them to redefine their quest for mediocrity by converting discrimination into affirmative action. Liberals are all about the feelings and nothing about the best anymore.

If we’d return to nothing but the best we wouldn’t need discrimination any more. The quality would lead and duplicate itself over time. It’s time to abandon the folly of diversity and affirmative action. Better to draft Allen West and others like him and task them with fostering and mentoring the best in others and the best in us as a nation. Only then will we achieve the results we need and desire.

 

[cheri1122]

About the statement "They [liberals] have certainly encouraged them [criminal aliens] in our society", you might want to check out HB2012. Proposed by your very own Tx Republican [and 'Tea Party favorite'] Debbie Riddle, it specifically exempts those who hire criminal aliens for house and/or yard work from prosecution. Because, according to Ms Price [and her fellow Republican Aaron Pena], "everyone hires illegals - it's so commonplace we don't even notice it". So who is encouraging criminal aliens to live and work in Texas?
Really - when you vilify the opposing party/philosophy constantly, never accepting that they MIGHT have a point about anything, you have little or no credibility with those who wish to solve the problems facing America.
Neither liberal nor conservative is totally right or wrong to those who think about issues, and your constant insistence to the contrary is reason enough to disregard your opinions as those of a fanatic.

 

[highway star]

That's a fairly wordy post Leo. Did you write that, or is it a copy with no attribution?

 

[LDB]

She's not mine and I doubt very many conservatives would approve of HB2012. My comments primarily apply to liberals because for the most part they are the problem. I don't limit myself to liberals though. I've regularly criticized republicans when they deserve it as well. My observations, like liberals and conservatives, tend to follow the 80/20 rule pretty accurately. That means about 80 percent of my observations are going to point out the negatives of lib/dem and the rest the negatives of the other side. I'd certainly love to not need to follow the 80/20 rule but until folly like "affirmative action" discrimination and "diversity" discrimination and "undocumented" illegals and countless other ridiculous systems are rejected I'll have to continue to comment appropriately and accurately.

 

[LDB]

I wrote it for my blog.

 

[cheri1122]

Which are you rejecting: Republican, Conservative, or Texan?
Your habit of issuing blanket statements unequivocally condemning [or ridiculing] liberals contradicts your explanation - and the habit of dismissing people with labels doesn't encourage an exchange of ideas - just head nodding from the likeminded, and head shaking from those who might wish to offer another viewpoint.
The US will never progress without engaging in the difficult exercise of communication, especially between opposing views, but we don't seem to be making much progress towards it so far.

 

[LDB]

I reject any of them when they deserve to be rejected. I am what a good friend with a psych degree calls a hit and run communicator. I make short statements that cover the bulk and generally lack the patience to fine tune them to cover the small parts that don't fit the overall statement. I'll say "lawyers are bad" when I know it isn't all lawyers, it's just that the bad ones give the other 2% a bad name. Like I said, the 80/20 rule pretty well applies. There are some good liberals. There are some bad conservatives. Most of the problems are caused by most of the liberals, the 80%. I'm not going to neglect to comment on anyone who deserves it though.

 

[highway star]

I am what a good friend with a psych degree calls a hit and run communicator. I make short statements that cover the bulk and generally lack the patience to fine tune them to cover the small parts that don't fit the overall statement.

That's what prompted my question. It just seemed to be a bit more than you usually say.

 

[LDB]

Yes, I admit a shortage of patience frequently. My usual amount of verbiage isn't enough for my blog though. If I post it's either mine, like that, or it's linked so the source is obvious. I don't just copy and paste other people's stuff. I don't have enough patience for that.

 

[greg334]

Regardless of one’s political leanings or expressed feelings regarding the military one thing is certain. When the you know what hits the fan everyone wants the military to be the best of any military force in existence. That’s what’s in the core of every truth telling individual. They don’t want good or ok or tolerable or passable. They want the best protecting and defending them.

Yes I want the best but I can't have the best nor I may not have a say in what I consider the best to protect me.

The problem comes when liberals let their feelings trump their brains, a sadly common occurrence. When their feelings engage in gear their brains shift into neutral. It’s those times when what’s right no longer matters, only what feels good and sounds good. Case in point, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission. This group notes the military leadership is not as diverse as the nation it serves. They mention women and minorities. There have been good candidates, Col. Allen West being a prime example.

Well it isn't all liberals but also conservatives like McCain who feel they are experts in military affairs. Our system wasn't intended for the military people to run the military though congress but the people to do so and I think that is where a lot of people see the threat to their idea of the military and its purpose by either removing the 'experience factor' from congress or adding diversity to the mix.

I don't know what Allen West has to do with it but if we are to look at people who are minorities, there are hundreds of examples who are not politicians.

The problem is when diversity is the most important rather than the best being most important.

You are making one of the biggest mistakes people make about diversity - that is directly discounting the fact that diversity can and often does strengthen a group or team. This of course is when people are simply chosen for their abilities and not their color or quota - which I might add the quota system was started under a republican/conservative administration in the '70s.

Are we going to solicit criminal aliens for part of our military leadership? Liberals have certainly courted and encouraged them in our society.

See there Leo, this is wrong in your thinking. Of course we should not entertain the idea that an invader should ever be allowed to serve in our military or even in the government ... BUT ... Liberals have not been the only ones to court the Hispanic/Chinese vote nor are they the only ones who encourage the entry into the US through the military - conservatives equally share in those and other activities.

To represent the nation they serve we’d have to have a very very large number of criminal aliens in the ranks and the leadership.

Not really ... only one is needed.

Why is race important in college admissions? Why is race even allowed on the admission application?

Because of two factors, we want to perpetuate the idea that people need help from the government and with that it extends a form of slavery that people don't want to approach let alone openly discuss AND it has to do with money and how we allowed our government to divide the nation in order to control those who they want to control.

What difference does it make in how well a student learns? How does knowing an applicant’s race change their grades, their SAT scores, their admission essay? Why should anyone care when the best will be revealed by their grades and essays?

Actually it has everything to do with the student and how they learn, look at the DC school voucher system and ask those questions again to apply to that situation.

Oh, yes, I recall now. We don’t care about the best. We only care about the quotas. If we’re liberals that is.

Well hate to break this to you but if we want the best, then we end public schools, we end the idea that schools need to follow not just quotas but standards that allow people to flourish in the abyss. If your daughters were top of their class and went to an Ivy league school and still were at the top of their class, they would still have a hard time competing with some one who went to say the University of Beijing or Calcutta and were at the top of their class - not to mention people going to school in Germany or Russia. Our school system is really poor and it has to do with the arrogance and the ignorance that starts with the idea that everyone has to go to college and public schools teach.

Is there an area left where truly being the best is the only criteria? I can’t think of any. We’ve not only let liberalism devalue being the best, we’ve allowed them to redefine their quest for mediocrity by converting discrimination into affirmative action. Liberals are all about the feelings and nothing about the best anymore.

I say replace the word "liberal" with "conservative" and you still have a very valid statement.

If we’d return to nothing but the best we wouldn’t need discrimination any more. The quality would lead and duplicate itself over time. It’s time to abandon the folly of diversity and affirmative action. Better to draft Allen West and others like him and task them with fostering and mentoring the best in others and the best in us as a nation. Only then will we achieve the results we need and desire.

Leo, the problem is we have not had the best ever in our military. We don't train people to go into the military as a nation and haven't for over a century. If we want the best, it has to start with the attitude that everyone has something to offer and everyone regardless who or what they are has a chance.

What strikes me as odd is bringing up Allen West, if you are going to be colored blind as you seem to claim, then why bring him up. Color or race or religion shouldn't have anything to do with it but you proved that you can't even live by your own words.