By Frosty Wooldridge,
Individual initiative, creativity, meritocracy and personal drive form the underpinnings of the social, economic and cultural foundation of the United States of America.
By working your butt off, by striving for something you want, and for creating something of value—-you enhance America, yourself, your family, your community and future generations.
The main reason our U.S. Constitution works: it requires the citizenry of this country to earn their education by attending school from K through 12. It requires that students work toward a trade or profession that benefits this society. It requires that every citizen carries a moral, ethical and personal responsibility-accountability to do his/her best to enhance themselves, their community and this country.
That’s how a society thrives. It’s how America succeeded. It’s how all of us benefit from the truck driver to the first-grade teacher to the carpenter to the dentist to the waitperson. Whatever you’re doing from the janitor to the CEO of a corporation, you’re benefiting this society by your actions, your responsibilities, and your personal gifts.
All that changed in 1964 when President Lyndon Baines Johnson killed personal initiative along with personal accountability by introducing “affirmative action” into The Great Society. Since that time, those who discovered they could loaf their way through school in order to obtain a diploma—did just that and “earned” their high school diploma while becoming functionally illiterate.
Once they loafed their way through school, they enjoyed a job through “affirmative action” that allowed them to work with equal pay while other more qualified people took up the slack by working harder and more hours. Then, racial quotas came along to make sure that every workplace carried a quota of specific races…whether they were qualified or not.
The result of the last 50 years of The Great Society has given us 500,000 homeless, millions working in jobs doing nothing much more than painting their fingernails while answering the phone as they “work” for the government. Welfare has gone off the charts where working Americans pay billions, even trillions for those who enjoy EBT cards, Section 8 housing, welfare for single mothers, and 2.4 million criminals in our U.S. prisons, $32 trillion national debt and a bunch of angry youth who think they are justified in burning, stealing and robbing other Americans.
There is a video out there of an attractive 30 year old mother with four kids on welfare that proudly announces, “With all my benefits, I don’t know why anyone would want to work in America.”
Today, in 2023, instead of students maintaining educational standards, we’ve dropped those standards to such a point that a college degree means nothing. You’ve got African-American studies that prepare the student for nothing in this society. He/she can’t fix a plumbing problem, electrical problem, repair a bicycle, change the oil on a car, and a hundred other simple tasks that make that person useful for him or herself in their daily activities.
We’ve got “equity” standards, but in fact, not one minority student in Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans or NYC can read at their grade level. (Source: NPR, Scott Simon) We now feature more than 45 million functionally illiterate Americans who graduated from “affirmative action” high schools.
You’ve got “diversity” quotas in movies, advertisements and schools…but a total loss of excellence in standards. Major colleges are dropping their L-SAT requirements so low, a turtle can become a dentist, doctor or lawyer. How’s that going to work out in the years ahead?
Of course, the new moniker, “Inclusion” means everyone must be included in the winner’s circle because we don’t want to make anyone feel badly about the fact that they didn’t study, didn’t train, didn’t perform…but they deserve a trophy to make them feel good. In other words, we’re training all those who lack drive, determination and accountability for their actions into “winners” when it fact, they didn’t accomplish anything.
And finally, we’ve got mentally “off” males deciding that they are not a boy, but in fact, a girl. Worse, they want to compete against real DNA females…and step onto the podium with their 6’4” stature, wearing a woman’s bathing suit, along with a pair and a Johnson between their loins…with a straight face as they accept a trophy for their victory. All the while, the heads of the NCAA approve of such insanity.
And, then, there’s the girls who think they are boys. We even have allowed a female minority Supreme Court Justice not able to give the definition of a “woman.” She’s a woman but can’t define a woman.
Personally, it matters little if a boy wants to pretend to be a girl. It’s okay if a girl wants to pretend to be a boy. So, let us let them compete against each other in the same arena. For sure, the American crowds will be like the Roman Coliseum’s blood-thirsty crowds—-cheering the transgender athletes onward toward victory. Or, they might feed them to the lions. Crowds are fickle that way. Would Will “Lia” Thomas get the thumbs up or down? Personally thinking, he needs a better bra and jock strap!
In the final analysis, when are the rational, reasonable and sane leaders in this country going to come down to common sense, ethics and morality? When are those people in power such as in the NCAA going to do what’s right instead of what’s stupid? When are we going to escape the stupidities and racism of “affirmative action, inclusion, diversity and equity” to maintain standards of excellence for all races, colors and ethnic groups? When are we going to return to what made America successful?
It’s this simple:
Individual initiative, creativity, meritocracy and personal drive form the underpinnings of the social, economic and cultural foundation of the United States of America.
By working your butt off, by striving for something you want, for creating something of value—-you enhance America, yourself, your family, your community and future generations.
Frosty Wooldridge is a population-immigration-environmental specialist, a speaker at colleges, civic clubs, high schools and conferences, and a six continent world bicycle traveler, speaker/writer/adventurer.
Web: frostywooldridge.com and Facebook: Frosty Wooldridge.
