D.E.I. The surest way to Destroy any Enterprise is to put Incompetents in charge.
But maybe destruction of the enterprise is the real reason Leftists and Communists are eager to promote unqualified minorities to positions of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, poet, and patriot. Many of the points of wisdom he wrote in his Essays of the mid-19th century ring remarkably true today. Here is one of my favorite passages -- a beautifully crafted metaphor which shows the long term destruction of society that D.E.I. brings with it:
An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment is pursued for a short time, I think it would begin to mistrust something.
And if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men, and put in a hundred bad, or, what is just the same thing, introduce a demoralizing institution, would not the dollar, which is not much stupider than an apple-tree, presently find it out?
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. Every man who comes into this city, with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city, a new worth. If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched."
Thx for the insightful quote.