Everyone is born with good DNA and bad DNA ... and we unfortunately cannot change the poorly-coded ones ... autoimmune diseases, mental illness, breast cancer, alcoholism, dementia, cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia, flat feet, etc. All curse us ... counterbalancing our genetic gifts ... good looks, creativity, robust health, athletic prowess. Some day we might be able to order up the good genes and fix our bad ones ... but, for the nonce, we must live with what we are given in the lottery of life. As Trump would say, “it is what it is.”
Such it is with nations ... all have good history and bad history ... the equivalent of their DNA. And to emphasize our nation’s bad history ... slavery, the trail of tears, Japanese internment camps, segregation ... and down-play our good history ...World War II, our Bill of Rights, emancipation, civil rights ... is as silly as trying to sue your parents for your bad genes. Those that want to remake the United States into a different nation by erasing or rewriting our good history and accenting our errors are either naive or have something more sinister in mind.
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Eugenics?
ReplyDeleteI don’t understand how your comment relates to this blog content. Do you represent Planned Parenthood?
ReplyDelete"Some day we might be able to order up the good genes and fix our bad ones ..." That was the noble goal of Eugenics. Our 3rd Reich scientists may have overstepped.
ReplyDeleteWho decides when the definition of a "bad" gene drift from diseases to include low IQ, or red hair, or short stature? We breed to improve corn and cattle. Why not humans?
The winners write history; always have. Good luck with your DNA metaphor. (It fell flat here at the lab. Even the monkeys looked perplexed.)
Selective breeding is not the same as actually altering DNA in the lab ... the ethics of which will be hotly debated when the time comes.
ReplyDeleteAnd BTW, you missed the maid idea of this post — we need to recognize, but not revel in our bad history along with our good ... just like we must accept our bad genes as compensation for our good. And, we in America are unique in the world and lucky that our good history far outweighs our bad.
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