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Asked what we will say about freedoms that were not yet granted in this era, she says: “You know, we haven’t done enough yet to bring African Americans and women fully into power—though women certainly have come very close. When you think of things like the achievement gap in education that separates African-American youngsters from white youngsters, you know we haven’t done enough yet. When you look at the difference in life-spans, you know we haven’t done enough yet. When you look at income differentials, you know that we need to do more on education, so that we can have a society in which we can say that all people are created equal and really mean it.”

Ugh.

When a civil servant, Democrat or Republican, says "We haven't done enough yet", that's code for "We haven't meddled enough with the workplace and taken enough from your paycheck yet".

I live in the Silicon Valley. I see an incredibly diverse group of people every day, if you count diversity by such shallow criteria as skin pigmentation and facial structure. They are all incredibly monolithic in terms of pursuit of excellence.

(As an aside, unfortunately, they are all really diverse when it comes to respect for human rights and freedom. This is what happens when you no longer care about such things in your immigration policy.)

A lot of these people came from austere backgrounds. That they have made it in the U.S. is a result of two things: natural ability, and discipline. The discipline instilled by their parents to buckle down on math and science, the discipline to complete years of hard schooling, and the discipline of parents to scrape funds together to pay for it.

Lynne Cheney was one of the most conservative and articulate people we could imagine getting that high up in government (by way of her husband). When even the Lynne Cheneys of the world start spitting out this "We haven't done enough" pablum, it is a sign of the corrosive nature of government.