Posted by
malize on Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:53:51 AM
Wealth - Race - Gender - Culture - Religion
Honestly
none of these things should not be an issue in selecting an employee or
a representative. The question should be about their capability to do
the job...in other words a meritocracy. Liberals place little value on
merit as a rule, best exemplified by their love of big social programs
that "level the playing field" between achievers and
slackers...normally at the long term expense of those who actually need
social programs.
A meritocracy - our system will never be that
way, of course...because we are all human with human flaws and human
paranoia about those who are even slightly different. (Liberals will
claim this to not be true about themselves...until they run into
someone who disagrees with them) Instead we focus on the
gender/race/culture in our efforts to pigeonhole everything we see into
nice digestible reference points.
The difference between
Conservative and Liberal is the sort order of these things...liberals
read the line below Left to Right, Conservative Right to Left.
Race - N. Gender - Wealth - Culture - Religion - (A. Gender)
Where:
Wealth = Socio-economic class, i.e. your income or lack thereof
Race = Degree of pigmentation
N. Gender = Plumbing, natural (male/female...for liberals this also includes sexual orientation)
Culture = All ethnic/cultural aspects not directly involved with religion or race ("American" or "other)
Religion = (belief in god or lack thereof) and (christian or non-christian)
A.
Gender = Plumbing, altered (for brevity, conservatives would place same-sex orientation in this
category too - the A. Gender category does not exist for liberals and
thus they would place orientation in the N. Gender group)
So where does Merit fit in here? I suppose it could be "Wealth"...but just because someone is wealthy does not mean they have merit...just because someone is poor doesn't mean they lack merit. The entrepreneurial spirit that the United States is founded on is one totally of merit. Yet it is the one category that both ends of the political spectrum exclude the most, albeit that liberals do so by definition and conservatives acknowledge the merit of merit, if not always make it a priority.