Now Everyone is Qualified

Thanks to Trump's election, everyone thinks they are qualified to get elected to high office.  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is pondering a political career.  Oprah suddenly views herself as qualified for political office.  Kid Rock is floating the idea of running for Senate.  Caitlyn Jenner has even hinted at running for office.  When one considers the $20 trillion debt, the eternally collapsing infrastructure that somehow has no 'shovel-ready' jobs, the selective law enforcement, and myriad failures of government, it is clear that these highbrow educations aren't all they are cracked up to be.  As I noted in an earlier posting, we have a lot of Ivy Leaguers for Presidents and Senators.  We are closer to Buckley's less desirable composition:

I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley

 

Of course, Buckley was a Yale man so perhaps he was exposing a bias.  Still, the results of the Washington elites speak for themselves.  If there was a 100% sweep, it would do the government good, especially if the new Senators and Representatives were people who would have been unthinkable before Trump.  It is time to usurp the new aristocracy that has presumed the right to rule and return to government of the people, by the people, for the people.

 

Good luck storming the castle!

I'm Batman!

If Bruce Jenner had come out and declared that he was actually Bruce Wayne, otherwise known as Batman, we would laugh.  If he pressed the point too long, his family would seek psychiatric help.  Instead, Bruce has declared that she is Caitlyn.  That is laudable, even brave according to many.

Being inclined toward libertarianism, I am not bothered by Caitlyn's choice.  It is her life.  Live it how you wish to live it.  What troubles me is the reaction of our culture to it.  Norms are a thing of the past.  Marriage shall be a compact of two (or more?) loving individuals.  An English woman married a dolphin!  Birth certificates will list parent 1 and parent 2 rather than mother and father.  There are even calls to remove the baby's gender from the birth certificate.  A tiny minority is not demanding just tolerance, but codification of its desires into the law.  A dictatorship of the minority. To many, my failure to openly embrace this transformation of societal norms is akin to hate speech.

 

At this rate, what will be the cause in 20 years?  What modern practice will turn out to be oppressive and discriminatory?  What civil right yet remains?