If Diversity is the Answer, What's the Question?

What are the alleged “compelling” benefits of “diversity“? They are as invisible as the proverbial emperor’s new clothes. Yet everyone has to pretend to believe in those benefits, as they pretended to admire the naked emperor’s wardrobe. Thomas Sowell

By Rich Kozlovich

On July 10, 2020 Paul Mirengoff posted the article, Why so much trouble nominating reliably conservative Justices? Part Two. saying:

In this post from last month, I tried to explain why Republican presidents have far less success nominating reliably conservative Supreme Court Justices than their Democratic counterparts have in nominating liberal ones. The main reason, I said, is that the conservative legal movement in America has multiple strands, not all of which point adherents to a result that can be called, or agreed upon as, conservative.

He goes on saying:

Harvard law professor, Adrian Vermeule, He dismisses two possible explanations, before embracing a third..............The first is that “liberal justices are, despite their protestations, systematically less principled” than conservative ones. Vermeule brushes this... off....a second explanation he dismisses — that “conservative swing justices depart from their best judgment about what the Constitution requires in controversial cases because they are overwhelmed by the political, social and cultural pressures of the left-elite milieu, especially the praise or censure of the mainstream media.”.......the “gravitational force” of our alleged unwritten constitution pulls in the others from time to time. As Ed Whelan points out, this is just a fancy, righteous-sounding way of saying that defecting conservatives are following political, social, and cultural pressures of the left-elite milieu....

This in my opinion is a lot of verbiage, so let's make it simple.  First, leftist judges act and do what they do because they really are less principled, and secondly, conservative judges do and act they way they do because heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart.  Simple as that.

Most people want to be liked, and well thought of, even lauded and praised.  And in order to live that life they're so often willing to go along with the crowd, even when that crowd is molded and moved by mass hysteria.

Being the rock in the current is unpleasant, and rowing against the tide is exhausting.  You know you're there all by yourself.  You won't be popular, and you won't get credit for your actions you deserve.  You'll be vilified, ridiculed, despised and snickered at.  No one likes that, and it's my belief this is particularly true of judges, who, after years of being pampered and catered to, they develop huge ego's, all of which is addictive.  But this is more than an issue regarding the judiciary.  This is a universal problem with leadership in industry and government.  Why?  Because people will always be people!

As Izabella Tabarovsky points out in her article, The American Soviet Mentality, Collective demonization invades our culture saying:

Twitter has been used as a platform for exercises in unanimous condemnation for as long as it has existed. Countless careers and lives have been ruined as outraged mobs have descended on people whose social media gaffes or old teenage behavior were held up to public scorn and judged to be deplorable and unforgivable. But it wasn’t until the past couple of weeks that the similarity of our current culture with the Soviet practice of collective hounding presented itself to me with such stark clarity. Perhaps it was the specific professions and the cultural institutions involved—and the specific acts of writers banding together to abuse and cancel their colleagues—that brought that sordid history back.

People will always be people, and the patterns of life keep repeating over and over again.  We're now living in a state of mass hysteria in America. We've lost all sense of balance as a nation.  Those of us who see this for what it is are now striving to avoid falling into the ranks of the insane.  

We're now facing a destructive onslaught of the Holy Trinity of leftism.  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  We've just watched absolutely unqualified jurists being nominated to the federal bench, including the Supreme Court, over and over again.  The same is true of nominations to various departments of the federal government, and the fact is, Biden could nominate a ham sandwich as Secretary of State and the Democrat Senate would approve the appointment, and truthfully, the nation would probably be safer than in the hands of those in power now.