On Mediocrity

As I watched President Trump's speech of accomplishment and results last night, I saw a Democrat Party that celebrates illusions of success.

As I watched President Trump’s address, the cameras panned out to show the signs and silly stunts the trained chimpanzees in the Democrat Party were performing. They couldn’t bring themselves to stand, clap, or cheer for anything that was positive for America as a nation or America as a people.

I couldn’t help but compare their performance to another unnecessarily off-key event that debuted in the White House just a few days ago.

The best analogy I could produce was that the Democrat Party just pulled a Crazy Zelenskyy – and the results were much the same. It didn’t go well for Volody, and it sure didn’t go well for the Democrats, especially Al Green of Texas (I love his music), who was ejected from the event.

Whoever Democrats’ hired as a consultant, I hope they extend that contract.

Last night, I watched as President Trump reminded the audience there was a time in America when mediocrity was a deviation from a baseline of excellence, not the other way around, a time when performance and results mattered more than excuses. If we want it to return to that state, we must demand excellence and stop accepting mediocrity.

It has been clear for some time, but last night’s event solidified my opinion that while the Democrats claim to celebrate something they call diversity, equity, and inclusion, what those things really mean is one thing – mediocrity – and it shows in the midwits who form the de facto leadership of that party.

Fresh off notorious midwit Jamie Raskin, allegedly a lawyer who taught constitutional law, claiming that the Second Amendment was confirmed by the Supreme Court to mean that only militias can possess arms, and the federal government has the duty to regulate the militias – the Supreme Court ruled exactly the opposite – not a single Democrat voted to keep men out of women’s spaces.

Perhaps nothing exemplifies the celebration of mediocrity better than the Democrat’s most sacred current thing – their suicidal support of transgenderism.

If you think about it, a man who believes he is a woman or a woman who believes she is a man, are completely incapable of being either a man or a woman – being stuck in the middle and not being able to exhibit all characteristics of one or the other or being biologically able to execute the roles assigned to them by Nature and Nature’s God – even after unnatural transformations through “gender affirming” surgery.

Trans men and women exist as mediocrities, some human-altered being stuck in the middle, not male, not female, and forced to submit to a cocktail of drugs and pretense for the rest of their lives and even if they realize what they become, there is no going back – what was done cannot be completely undone. The cost of transition is never to be whole again.

Extrapolated to the greater American life, examples of mediocrity abound.

Boeing losing the ability to build sound and safe aircraft, the lack of pilot, ground control and flight management awareness leading to a growing trend of near-misses at airports, the lack of professionalism spreading through industry, academia, and politics – all of it is due to a growing ethos of the acceptance of mediocre people, processes, and products.

Kids who are graduating high school in our major cities who can’t read or write. Studies show that the kids are not being taught to do math all the way down to elementary school. Universities have become diploma mills, turning out little more than credentialled featherheads, prepared to do nothing. People elect representatives at the state, local and federal levels that are clearly unqualified for what they are being asked to do – and many of these people are lawyers! That one amazes me – when I was in college, getting into law school, even second tier law schools, was not easy, and now, people who are clearly imbeciles and nincompoops not only get in, they somehow graduate, pass the bar, and wind up in positions that control our lives.

Edmund Burke did say that “among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot exist.”

Andrew Breitbart famously said that “politics are downstream from culture,” which would imply that if we want better politics, we need to create a better culture – but isn’t that true about everything?

Americans need to expect and demand more.