In fact, as someone once said, "We're gonna need a bigger boat."
[[ Many people are in that boat.
In fact, as someone once said, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ]]
There’s a difference between “racist” (a word that is an invention of the left) and becoming a “racial realist”.
Conservatism by its very nature is about facing reality — about understanding the world around us (and those who inhabit it) in terms of how it -is-, not how we believe it ought to be.
Sometimes, seeing things clearly reveals truths we dislike and would rather not have to face. So, we turn away, or selectively ignore certain facts, truths, and realities that are at best unpleasant and at worst unsolvable.
This fault is not limited to liberals — time and time again, we who are conservative can fall into the same crevice, blindly repeating to ourselves mantras that on the surface seem to advance our philosophy but which are in truth little more than wishful thinking, or outright fantasy.
But as a very wise woman once said, “We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of reality”.
Since the 1960’s we have tried in this country to “bend certain realities” into a shape that would conform to the egalitarian aspirations of the gentleman who wrote the Declaration of Independence. We have twisted ourselves inside out in this effort, spending billions of dollars, and after some fifty years of trying to combat one of the most innate of human traits (that being the desire to be amongst others who are similar to ourselves) have only made matters worse. Much worse.
We can persist in our noble efforts, which fly in the face of human nature. Or, we can face the unpleasant truths before us, recognize reality for what it is, and go on from there.
And yes, we’re gonna need a bigger boat!