WHY DO DEMOCRAT GARDENS KEEP DYING? The garden parable, Part Two

Some of you read my first garden parable. Big tomato plants. A city council. A row of dead vines. The council starved the best plants, the buyers left, and then they held a ribbon-cutting because the gap between the best plant and the worst plant was finally zero.

Everything was equal. Everything was also dead. A proud day for equity.

THE PARABLE OF THE GARDEN: Or, how to destroy everything you built in five easy policy steps.

Let me tell you about a garden.

Not a metaphor about hope or healing or some poem you would find tacked to a kindergarten bulletin board. No. This is a garden about money, taxation, and the spectacular self-inflicted economic implosion of places like New York City and California. Stay with me.

The I in DIE: Death of Meritocracy

Scene from a coaches conference two weeks before the college national championship game. Coach: You know our starters got us here, but it’s not fair they’ve played every game and we haven’t played many players in the program. I think bringing in the Freshman team for the game will give them some great experience and …

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The E in DIE

Social justice groups use the figure above as a meme to show the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity) movement to illustrate equity. If all we are discussing is these three people, then it may make some sense. But there is a broader picture than the three spectators. The stadium owners, the paying fans, and the …

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