Recently, I was on an extended business trip across the United States that ultimately touched upon planes, trains, automobiles, ships, bridges and majestic skyscrapers. Along the way, I honestly paused in awe to marvel at modern jetliners; the engines pulling passenger and freight trains cross-country; driverless taxis; four-football-field-long megacruise ships; the George Washington and the Golden Gate bridges; and 60-story-plus office towers in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
As I pondered them all over the course of the trip, I had two immediate thoughts. The first being that, in one way or another, those modes of transportation and that stunning and often all held human life within and upon them. The second was that all were devised and built via meritocracy.
, identity politics and woke dictates played no role in their construction. Nor should they ever, when what is being designed and built will eventually determine the safety of human lives.
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My third and overriding thought was: “Thats all about to be thrown out the window once the religion of wokeism comes roaring back into play across the spectrum of our lives.” If you think otherwise, I most humbly believe you either have not been paying attention to current events or are fooling yourself via the cliché: “Ignorance is bliss.”
To be clear, I dont care if someone is female, male, Black, White, brown, straight, gay, trans, liberal, conservative, faith-based or an atheist. If that person happens to be the best person for the job based solely upon merit and real-world experience, they should get it. Period.
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But if that person is being inserted into the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; the control tower of an airport; the bridge of a military or commercial ship; behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler; into a police force or fire department; or behind the controls of a major utility simply because of “identity politics,” then the lives in the hands of those occupations are exposed to much higher risk simply to appease an ideological narrative.
There are many people â myself included â who strongly believe that DEI never went away. That it was never “defeated” or “crippled.” Rather, we believe that it was placed in a purposeful “sleeper mode” by the powerful prophets of “woke” who were simply biding their time while riding out the peak influence of President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.
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If the Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives â and quite possibly the Senate â on Nov. 3, expect those identity-politics-pushing prophets to signal their various flocks to fire up the DEI machines across the corporate, academic, political, media and governmental spectrums.
As a stark reminder of the malicious power DEI can wield, we have these exposés: the first being the recent report from the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) which outlined in detail that his agency uncovered ”
