Is DEI now DOA?

                                    

"Donald Trump wants our nation to be known for common sense. DEI is the antithesis of common sense. It is evil. No more shall DEI ever rule our land. We shall be, as we once were, a merit-based society. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for putting an end to this madness."    

Did you hear the huge sigh of relief which went out over the fruited plains yesterday at close of business? Per one of President Trump's executive orders, all DEI in the federal government had to end. Anyone who worked in DEI needed to punch out and go home. All the DEI government web sites needed to go bye-bye. The long nightmare of excluding merit and embracing race, creed and sexual preference - was over. It is about ding-dang time.

A quick story. Many years ago, I worked with a woman who was wicked smart. She and I became good professional friends at a company we both worked at, so when she accepted a position at another company, she invited me to come along. She came up the path of hard knocks - no degree and no pedigree. But she did know how to work long and hard. As kind and nice as she was, what would really get her blood boiling was when someone asked if she got her position because she was a woman. A quota. An affirmative action hire. She wanted to be accepted because of her merit, but because of equity programs, there was always a dark cloud hanging over her.  

What Joe Biden tried to do with equity and DEI was to shove it down our throats sideways. Make us like it. Make us think it was the norm, no matter how offensive it was. The infuriating thing was it even crept into our armed forces. Then what happened? Retention went down. Recruiting went down. Morale went down. All of a sudden, our entire federal government was a mess.

If Kamala had won the election, there is no telling where this DEI thing would have ended up. Just when you thought things could not get more bizarre - they did. Biden and Harris made a mockery out of our government. Out of our nation. But they went too far. The huddled masses rose up on election day and said with a collective voice - ENOUGH! Donald Trump got the message. Day one of his new term he was going to end DEI. And he did. 

Donald Trump wants our nation to be known for common sense. DEI is the antithesis of common sense. It is evil. No more shall DEI ever rule our land. We shall be, as we once were, a merit-based society. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for putting an end to this madness.