The Middle of the Road on the Left

Just like I predicted, in the minds of many minorities, the election of Barack Obama as President hasn’t "changed" anything. Last night I was involved in a discussion with a young lady who considers herself a Christian who is politically in the middle of the road. She, from what I can tell has a successful career going for herself. However, when the subject came up of her missing out on a chance to further her career her immediate reaction was to say it was because of racism. When I asked her what made her believe it was racism her only answer was that the individual(s) who were received what she wanted were less qualified. That is a subjective argument at best and one that is all too common. No doubt racism still exists and, in my opinion, will always exist. It is a condition of the heart and there is only so much that legislation can do to stop it. However, using racism seems to be a convenient excuse to explain the failures of minorities in this country without pointing the finger of responsibility at the individual. Unfortunately, this status quo response from her was just the tip of the iceberg.

Along with pulling the race card to explain her failures, she also defended Barack Obama’s association with his anti-American and racist pastor as though it was something the President was not aware of for twenty years. Other things that she accepted at face value despite credible evidence to the contrary were:

• America is destroying the planet
• Global Warming is a fact
• America (whites in general) is a racist country
• Democrats have done more for minorities than conservative Republicans
• The destruction of the black family is because of racism.

There were others, but these seem to the majority of what kept coming up during the discussion. Quite frankly, this doesn’t represent a middle of the road political viewpoint, but rather a liberal, left-wing view point.

I am all for being a steward of the planet, but I am not about to radically change my lifestyle and give up my hard-earned money because some believe the planet is dying because of America. My friend comes across as a person who has guilt over living in a country that is so powerful and influential. Therefore, we must be change our living habits because she falsely believes in Global Warming. The fact of the matter is that America is the biggest producer of any nation on the planet. We feed the world and pollute the planet far less than some of these communist and totalitarian countries do. Most of these other countries depend on this country for their very existence. If we go down the drain over false claims of destroying the planet, the planet just might be destoroyed.

Without going into a long diatribe about global warming and the hoax I believe it to be I will let Bruce Berkowitz, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, talk for me. "The effect of solar activities and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation by chance were one in 100...Try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures." Enough said.