I was thinking the other day about the whole issue of ‘representation’ in government, and the rhetoric the left often uses that ‘government’ should look as diverse as America. Of course, they're talking about skin color and gender. That's really not the type of diversity that government needs. How about diversity in background and life experiences. When is that last time we had a plumber, or a farmer, or a shop owner in Congress? When’s the last time we had a President who went to a state university instead of one of the Ivy's or equivalent private universities? The point is that diversity isn't skin deep, and it certainly isn't defined by gender, but that's what we've been sold as the gold standard. How can we expect fresh thinking in government when many of those elected went to the same schools and sat in the same classrooms?
Your comment reminded me of this:
“Thus the utopia of multiculturalism involves a bureaucratic class presiding over a nation divided into a variety of ethnic nationalities. That, of course, looks awfully like the old Soviet Union.”
— Lady Margaret Thatcher