Posted on 12/14/2020 6:32:04 AM PST by Kaslin
The political nightmare known as Kamala Harris believes that equal opportunity in America is not sufficient. Her focus is on promoting equal results.
“Achieving equal results generally entails reducing or eliminating material inequalities between individuals or households in a society and usually involves a transfer of income or wealth from wealthier to poorer individuals, or adopting other measures to promote equality of condition,” according to Wikipedia.
Like many on the Left, Ms. Harris believes that the role of government and of society, in general, is to ensure equality of outcomes. Residents of America – not exclusively citizens – should enjoy the same benefits as everyone else. In her view, it's not enough to provide people with a sound education, equal employment opportunity, apprentice programs, counseling, job training, or unemployment compensation.
Leftists in La La Land
As with most notions that the Left champions, if it sounds good, by golly, it must be good! Let's get it passed! One itty-bitty problem with this political viewpoint is... drum roll, please, not everyone makes the same effort. Do you remember those kids in your high school class who were constantly slacking? Or, who would smoke behind the school building? Or, who were often absent or tardy? Or, constantly caused trouble?
Some of them were considered the cool kids, making the scene, showing up in all the right places around town, always having time for fun, mainly because they weren't doing much homework. They weren't studying like you were. No problem! In Kamala’s world, they get a free, lifetime, extensive ‘hall’ pass.
Do you also remember the kids who cheated on tests? Or, maybe their only sin was cramming the night before an exam and barely making it through. You, on the other hand, might have started preparing days in advance, diligently reviewing the homework assignments and exercises in the book.
Today, in the workaday world some of your classmates who slacked off are still doing the same thing. Perhaps they drink or smoke or are chemically dependent. Some of them look forward to taking the easy way out. Predictably, they crave more and more government benefits. They vote Democratic, because the party keeps dangling carrots in front of them.
Flawed Beyond Repair
“Equality of results” reveals inherent flaws in the thinking of whoever raised the issue. It is a platform of socialism, if not outright communism. Countries around the world that strive for equality of results end up dampening the human spirit of their own citizenry. The intrusion of government into too many aspects of people's lives ultimately yields the emergence of an elite ruling class that is above all others.
These elite puppet masters believe that they possess the special wisdom to determine what is right for the rest of us, and exactly how it is to be achieved. In reality, they gum up the works. Favoritism results. As in George Orwell's Animal Farm, some animals (people) are "more equal" than others.
Societies that mandate “equality of results” drive people from their shores. Such people seek to come to America, or at least the free parts of Europe. Conversely, no one risks their lives and their families to reside where a privileged ruling class decides what is best for all, and everybody else is nearly equal, while a few are ‘more equal.’
Reality Rules
People here and throughout the world, simply do not approach their jobs or careers with the same smarts, vigor, or dedication. Lots of kids know this by age nine or earlier. Many adults do whatever it takes to merely get by, unlike those who seek to carve a path for themselves, generate wealth, and provide for their families.
The Declaration of Independence appropriately states that all men [/women] are created equal. This does not imply that everyone has the same capabilities, as skills and aptitudes vary widely. Some people are knowingly suited for a particular field of endeavor; others spend years or decades unsure where to best apply themselves. They settle into a work routine that might earn them a living but doesn't offer a great life.
Welcome to reality. The government cannot legislate equality of results. The government is not omniscient. The government can't delve into the lives of each and every citizen to provide some gilded path for each to follow. It is not possible and even if it were possible, it would not be desirable.
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Celebrate the inequality of nature itself. It’s just okay if some people’s lives suck while others have an abundance.
How and IF you apply yourself is where the results can be determined
Equality of opportunities does not mean equality of results. I always say: “When you are getting wheeled into the surgery for a brain tumor... do you want the doctor who was the best in his class or the doctor who was selected to fill a quota?”
Working for me.
They most certainly can and under the Harris administration they will attempt to do so. The results will be catastrophic.
You can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Equality does not mean Quality.
“Equality of results”
Please allow me to translate:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
They are mutually exclusive. It is impossible to have both except in some theoretical world where given the same opportunity everyone got the same results. Our world is not like that, so we can not have both at the same time. However for the sake of argument say our world was like that, then of course equal opportunity is sufficient because it would in such a world lead to equal results.
Bttt.
5.56mm
The U.S. has just experience a coup and, though we can't see it, we can be assured that China is consolidating its grip on power.
So, soon the government WILL BE omniscient...or at least it will act as though it is.
Never mind what they “intend to do”; this has already been going on for some time. When affirmative action beneficiaries started receiving unearned degrees (to complement their unearned high school diplomas) and found themselves unemployable anyway (because they had no skills needed in the private sector), the government employed as many as possible then started leaning on the private sector. Initially they’d require any private company with gubmint contracts to hire x% of semiliterate useless trash with no work ethic, then they started suing private companies with no gubmint ties at all because they “lacked diversity” - along ethnic AND gender lines.
The “diversity tax” imposed on all US employers today, as well as housing laws that scatter the useless population among tax-paying host populations, are already “equality of results” measures - these aren’t new.
Civil disobedience and non-compliance are an option.
This article may distort what the dems want. I don’t think equity to them means everyone has the same results. Consider the dem focus on race. It’s possible that equity to them means that all races, on average, achieve the same results, ie, if 15% of the population is black, then 15% of doctors should also be black. Nothing more than a quota system in disguise.
I’ll believe in quotas when the corrupt sports organizations require that their team percentages reflect the same ones that med schools/STEM/etc do.
That’ll happen about the same time that politicians and like addled idiots like the media and actors start taking public transportation and drive silly cars to reflect their concern about the climate.
Maybe they’ll propose a new cabinet office of the Handicapper General.
equality of results:
- destroys individual's ability to act as a causal agent
- implies forced labor
What that means in practice is that they know the working white population is the largest cohort resisting the coming authoritarian, corporate-fascist oligarchy. So they want them pauperized and reduced in social status so they're as resentful and dependent on government as blacks.
free people are not equal and equal people are not free.
“Equality of results is a disaster waiting to happen”
Get in the game! It’s already happened.
Liberty and equality are antonyms.
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