Here is fresh confirmation that the two parties in Washington are just two factions of the same party, with the same vision and same agenda, and the safety and well-being of Americans is not among their priorities.
“Woke Agenda Survives: These House Republicans Are Sticking With ‘Diversity and Inclusion,'” by Joseph Simonson, Washington Free Beacon, January 20, 2023:
Democrats may have lost control of the House of Representatives, but it appears Republicans are embracing their legacy of so-called diversity and inclusion.
Republican congressman Patrick McHenry (N.C.), now the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, announced earlier this month that there would be six subcommittees—and all of them will count advancing “diversity and inclusion” as one of their top priorities, according to the committee’s announcement.
The Subcommittee on Capital Markets, led by Republican Ann Wagner of Missouri, for example, will identify “best practices and policies that continue to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the capital markets industry.” And the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, led by Republican Bill Huizenga of Michigan, is tasked with making sure there is “agency and programmatic commitment to diversity and inclusion policies.” No other specific oversight focuses were listed.
Diversity and inclusion, two members of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion triumvirate now commonly referred to as DEI, have become an obsession for Democrats and left-wing activists in recent years. Republicans won a narrow majority in the midterm elections at least in part due to promises that they would end the Democrats’ DEI craze. It was a common barb from the Republican National Committee, for example, that “Democrats prioritize wokeness over solving real problems.”
McHenry, a close ally of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), was tapped to chair the influential committee in December. His initial announcement of committee priorities under his leadership included conducting “aggressive oversight” of the Biden administration, putting Americans back in control of their financial data, and regulating the crypto market. In a statement to the Washington Free Beacon, McHenry said the committee’s Republican leadership would “refocus the committee on the kitchen table issues that matter to American families.”
“For four years, Democrats wasted the valuable and limited time and resources of our committee to push burdensome mandates on American job creators,” McHenry said. “Democrats’ goal was to name and shame companies until they parroted their woke social agenda.”
The statement made no mention of diversity and inclusion.
Although one of McHenry’s first acts as chairman was to dissolve the Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion established by his predecessor Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), the task set out by that subcommittee now appears to have bled into the entire committee’s work. Each of those subcommittees, all led by Republicans, includes the term “diversity and inclusion” in the brief description of its jurisdiction….
Wellington says
What rot. All this DEI crap comes down to whites as oppressors and bad and non-whites as oppressed and noble victims. Lost in all this is that virtually every group—racial, ethnic, tribal, religious, etc. has oppressed others if it had the power to do so but it is the West which has by far tried to reverse this by way of true democracy, the only economic system that has ever worked, i.e., capitalism (N.B., not to be confused with crony capitalism just as sham democracy should not be confused with democracy), equality under the law and a proper moral order.
But all this is in jeopardy in our time, here in America and in so many other Western nations because contemporary society has gone stupid. DEI is an example of this and will only continue to foster a victim mentality which will only create more resentment. And nothing will ever be good enough for the woke crowd. They will never be placated. It’s a dead end approach.
The great irony in all of this here in America is that never in man’s history has one race done so much for another race as the white race in America has done for the black race in America over the past sixty to seventy years. Of course, though this is a perfectly true statement, because of the nonsensical age we live in such a contention is looked upon as racist and bigoted. Upside-down America and with no end in sight. Proving also that, politically speaking, the Uniparty is still very much in control. All very dismal.
milo minderbinder says
“There is no distinctly native American criminal class. . . .save Congress.”
– Mark Twain (1835-1910)
somehistory says
Unrelated to the “diversity” thing, but pelosi is said to have called in priests to get rid of the “evil” in her home. That’s not the only place…the only “house” where evil can be found to reside.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nancypelosi-paulpelosi-exorcism/2023/01/22/id/1105459/?ns
milo minderbinder says
somehistory,
Thank you for the link.
Many in the “power elite” think that can buy whatever it is that they want, and in general, they can.
Nancy Pelosi is no different, she may put on a good show, go to mass and confession, take communion and say the rosary, etc., she might even think that she can buy her way into heaven, however, she’s in for a rude awakening. She doesn’t seem to realize her problem is a heart issue:
“But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7 (ESV)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)
As Yeshua Ha’Mashiach said to the religious leaders of His time:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.”
Matthew 23:27 (ESV)
somehistory says
milo, pelosi probably never reads those verses and wouldn’t understand them if she did. She has her nose in the air, just as the Pharisees of Jesus’ day did. Her heart is hard and as Jeremiah says, “deceitful and treacherous.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think that for the GOP to go head-on against DEI, or DIE as I prefer to call it, they’ll need to have a minority figure as the face of such an initiative. Which may sound ironic, but I doubt that Matt Gaetz or MTG really want to be accused of ‘racism’ more easily than they already are