Reaping The Storm, Part 4: Conclusion

Deliberate divisiveness, atomization, “Newspeak”, obsessive emphasis on “diversity, equity and inclusion”—code words for what separates, rather than unites us as “one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”—are all insidiously corrosive.

They’re a direct assault on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

It’s no accident that every single element is currently under attack through or by censorship, lies, intimidation, segregation, and atomization. The Founding Fathers knew precisely what they were doing when listing those rights first, in priority. They followed with the Second Amendment, designed to protect them against an “overbearing government”. The opposite is equally true: those rights must be undermined for totalitarian control to establish and maintain its stranglehold.

And, thus, instead of upholding equality as our foundational value, the self-appointed—and handsomely rewarded—DEI Political Commissars proclaim that

“although good diversity management rests on a foundation of fair treatment, it is not about treating everyone the same. This can be a difficult concept to grasp, especially for leaders who grew up…to be both color and gender blind. Blindness to difference, however, can lead to a culture of assimilation in which differences are suppressed rather than leveraged.  Cultural assimilation…will be challenged as inclusion becomes, and needs to become, the norm.” (Military Leadership Diversity Commission, Final Report)

  The notion that Equal Opportunity is insufficient—and that meritocracy isn’t essential to optimal economic or military performance—is preposterous. So is the notion that the uniquely American idea of a “melting pot”—the assimilation that has been key to our prosperity and might— must be discarded in favor of “leveraging differences.”  Implicit in this vacuous claim is racial and ethnic stereotyping that the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rightly said is repugnant.  

What, exactly, does “leveraging differences” mean to the worker on the assembly line, the farmer tending his fields, the teacher, doctor, banker, salesman, firefighter, or nurse just trying to do their daily job? What does “leveraging differences” mean for a company commander on the battlefield, or a submarine captain tracking the adversary, or a squadron commander dealing with airspace incursions?  

The skills and talents needed to perform optimally in any of these situations aren’t correlated with race, gender, or sexual preference.  They are, instead, the result of professional competence, moral and physical courage, integrity, intellect, trust, unwavering commitment to the mission and the team—regardless of differences.  

Speaking at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point on May 12, 1952, General Douglas MacArthur famously said:

 Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn….

 The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

How prescient. The words “Duty, Honor, Country” were just deleted from USMA’s mission, replaced by the hollow, Orwellian tautology that is the “Army Values”.

Against this backdrop of insidious erosion of America’s defining values, the new Utopia bravely proclaims that there are  57+ distinct genders, different from the “sex assigned at birth”—when the doctor turned the newborn upside down and told the elated parents: “it’s a boy, or “it’s a girl”.

But, don’t worry, dear child,

“Stalin will secure your happy childhood”—as I was told starting in kindergarten in Communist Poland. So, if you’re displeased with what that doctor said, you can be Johnny today and Julie tomorrow. And, even if your parents “don’t get you”, the teachers have your back. They’ll call you by your “preferred pronouns” (straight from Orwell’s “Newspeak”), offer you “happy pills”—and maybe even refer you to a good doctor who’d remove or replace some body parts. Yup, you’re not old enough to drive, vote, drink, own a gun, or buy cigarettes but you’re mature enough to make life-altering, irreversible decisions. The teachers won’t even tell your “parents or caregivers” that you’re “transitioning”, because they’re “Christian nationalists”, or “genocidal Jews”. 

We all know that the notion of men giving birth is inconceivable and “unicorn” can’t possibly be a gender, but these absurdities are all around us, with flags, books, TV shows, leadership presentations, recruiting slogans—and suddenly we can’t talk to our children and grandchildren anymore. They think we are bigots, racists, conspiracy theorists. We feel like aliens from outer space, not from across the Southern border—in our own country.

 “Up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”. We are atoms, untethered, disoriented, and disconnected.

There is a good reason why Herbert Marcuse, the intellectual father of American Marxism, Critical Theory, Women’s Liberation Movement, and LGBT titled his bestselling 1955 book (republished in 1974) Eros and Civilization. To quote an anonymous Amazon reviewer: “I get his point, we all need to work less and act out our true sexual desires more. SEX IS WAY BETTER UNDER SOCIALISM”.

Dr. Lani Kass served in the Department of Defense for 30 years. These views are her own.

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