IQ SCORES: PERILS OF RELIANCE ON OUR “OTHER BRAIN”

 PERILS OF RELIANCE ON OUR “OTHER BRAIN”

A recent study from Northwestern and Oregon Universities published in:”Intelligence” (a neuroscience journal) on March 10, 2023, indicates that IQ scores have fallen for the first time in decades.  Since 1932 when the test was invented and widely used, scores have regularly risen a few points with each generation. That is until recently. .  

One wonders why not?  All the the other mental test scores have fallen recently too…reading, mathematics, comprehension, foreign language skills..etc.etc. Most kids today can not even read the nation’s most revered and iconic political document…the US Constitution (or Declaration of Independence) since it is written in script.  Sadly, our modern youngsters can not complete the mental gymnastics needed to recognize those artfully and beautifully hand crafted script letters. 

I wonder could this frightening  “dumbing down”  result from the ubiquitousness and massive expanding reliance we put on our iPhones and other electronic tech gadgets?

 

In earlier times, we had to LEARN oh, so many things just to survive.  In school we were forced to memorize, our ‘times tables”’, the rules of math, and of the unpredictable, irregular English language spelling and pronunciation. Then too there were those confusing synonyms, parts of speech, nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, and laws of sentence construction.  Some of us had to commit to memory Bible verses and prayers as well. 

These bits of information were  “hard wired” into our brains by difficult, time consuming and onerous mental effort. Now such efforts are no longer required….they are abandoned and called obsolete— anachronisms. 

Too many of these former mental activities  are now relegated to our “other brain”..that slim, rectangular, metallic and glass device you are now grasping in your hand.

 

Our brains, like our bodies are organic machines which thrive and prosper on regular usage. Disuse results in dysfunction. 

 The result: today’s youngsters may not have as many active synapses…and neural pathways in their cerebral cortex..and fewer stored memories and concepts —and thus less ability to make those critical (IQ rated) comparisons from one stored concept to another. 

Simply stated, our “other brain’ ..the one in your hand—is taking the place of our neocortex, hippocampus, and amygdala. These lower  IQ scores suggest our “organic brain” may be  simply withering away. 

That mass of about 5 or 6 pounds  we carry around above our necks may eventually become more of a “switching-station” organ, or ganglion center —like that of an earth woorm—only useful for sending neural messages from one body part to the other. 

Or will it evolve into a vestigial organ like the appendix. Once that organ functioned to digest fibrous foods when our primate predecessors were pure herbivores. But when more easily digestible foods, such as meat became available, this organ fell into disuse and simply withered away to the size of a baby’s pinkie. 

So perhaps can we expect in future, as our iPhones become larger and more complex, our brains will continue to shrivel to the size of a satsuma or kumquat and IQ scores will continue to fall or disappear all together. 

Perhaps if social and government policies continue as they are..some government agency will simply declare IQ scores “inequitable” and thus “invalid” and eliminate them altogether and thus assuage any fearful, unsettling concerns. 

But at least for those in the top 1% IQ  this will continue to remain a major worry for our future generations..

RON AND DON TELL THE TRUTH ON UKRAINE

 Ron DeSantis does not support the war effort in Ukraine. Most Republicans agree with him. 

The Democrat press..that is essentially almost all of the media..loved it. They gleefully and in multiplicity reported that  the most popular (not Trump) Republican,  Ron DeSantis was being  pummeled by his own Party.  Or rather it was the “Republican establishment” who took Ron to the woodshed for having the audacity, the nerve, the temerity, to state the actual facts: “the Ukraine war is a territorial dispute,” and “the USA does not have a vital interest in Ukraine” . 

Who were these so called “Republicans” attacking DeSantis?  They are the old guys ( the Senate minority leader McConnell is 82 years old)  that never supported  the Trump revolution.  They are the “neocon establishment” of the far right..the “war mongers” who only a few years back supported an illegal war of choice  conjured up  by Bush junior and his evil Rasputin, Dick Cheney. A dangerous pair, who  blazed a continent-wide swath of death and destruction— all across the Middle East (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria,)  first in pursuit of non-existent weapons of “mass destruction”, then foolish, vengeance for 9-11.  The madness continued with “reaper” drones used by President Obama (who one thought he should have known better).   

What was the outcome of that war of choice?  We wasted trillions of dollars, created mounds of US debt, ended millions of lives, revealed our nation’s deepest and worst character flaws, and dumped billions of tons of carbon  into the atmosphere to increase global warming.  We achieved: Niente’, nada, rien, tipota’, nichts!!!  

The US has thankfully retreated from those bloody “theaters of war”, leaving behind billions of dollars in assets, millions in weapons, lost technology and war materiel, but with absolutely nothing to show for it…except an onerous and debilitating war debt, and the broken bodies of our young men and women who gave their all for their nation. 

The real Republicans are the registered members of the Party who  clearly disagree with their so called “leaders” and who wisely favor DeSantis and Trump, as candidates both  of whom do not support the massive war effort in Ukraine.  And how popular they are! 

The most recent CNN polls suggest just what the GOP voters are thinking about Ukraine and wider wars.  In a March 15, 2023, a CNN 2024 Republican Presidential national poll of Republicans revealed: Trump and DeSantis —both known to favor less support for Ukraine—received a total of 76% (DeSantis 39%, Trump 37%) while the “establishment” GOP candidates, Haley (4%) and former VP  Pence (7%), were both in single digits.  Not a good sign for the establishment wing of the Party.  

The GOP voters have learned from our recent past and the Bush-Cheney wars that no benefits accrue from policies which aim to “create democracy by the muzzle of a gun”.  These efforts cost thousands of billions and what do we the tax payers get for our sacrifice?  Nothing!  We are now well aware that the GOP “hawks” are not going to send their own children to war, or build the border wall along our southern border to control illegal immigration, or protect our cities, or improve infrastructure, or support healthcare, or our schools, or clean up East Palestine, Ohio and the polluted waterways —.  

After, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria we know that that these GOP  “establishment types” are not into “wall building” , or making America great again.  These politicians ARE in the business of supporting policies which bring lucrative contracts and US tax revenues to the US Arms manufacturers like: Lockheed Martin (government arms contracts = $36 billion), Boeing ($31 billion) , Northrop Grumman ($28 billion) and more $ for UK and foreign firms too. These are the companies that make a massive profit from wars like Ukraine. More death and destruction, the better for them.  Of course one hand washes the other and the arms contractors in turn  support their Senators and House-members. 

Ukraine is to these companies like the “chum” barrel of blood and guts, is to the deep sea shark fishermen, who dump chum over the side of the boat to draw predators into a feeding frenzy.  The blood attracts the long grey predators, then seawater roils with red foam, snapping jaws and swirling tails. Soon the chum is all gone and the hungry,  blood-crazed sharks begin attacking each other.  

In DC and some cities in Europe this “war monger” feeding frenzy results —like at sea — in death and destruction. It is Ukraine, that is being torn apart.   More weapons to Ukraine satisfies the likes of Boeing and Grumman and the  “establishment” war monger Senators who take PAC money from them…but in Ukraine there is no electric light, no heat, and hundreds of young men die in the muddy blood streaked trenches each day.  

End the madness…end the war, stop the escalation with new weapons which only extend the feeding frenzy.  As DeSantis stated, we have no vital interest in Ukraine,  our only vital interest in Ukraine should be to end the killing. But no effort is being made to that end…In DC the effort is only for greed, war manufacturer’s profit and politician’s reelection cash. 

BIDEN ESKALIEDR DEN KRIEG IN DER UKRAINE MIT EINER SPIONAGEDROHNE

 Diese Bilder von Joe, der wiederholt stolpert, als er versucht, die „Lufttreppe“ zu erklimmen, um in die Air Force One einzusteigen, sind ein Paradigma seiner Präsidentschaft.  Es ist ein Debakel nach dem anderen für Joes Team, all diese streng geheimen Dokumente, die in seiner Garage gefunden wurden, dann einen chinesischen Spionageballon nicht abzuschießen, dann ihn abzuschießen (und auch Spielzeugballons) und jetzt unsere eigenen Spionagedrohnen abschießen zu lassen  Gewässer, in denen US-Hochtechnologie von russischen Tiefseetauchern gesammelt und wahrscheinlich vom Iran reproduziert wird.

 Am ahnungsvollen Tag der „Ides of March“ (dem 15.) wurden wir wieder mit einem weiteren Beispiel von „Stolper-Joe“ konfrontiert.  An diesem Tag erfuhren wir von der US-Reaper-Drohne, die sich jetzt auf dem Grund des Schwarzen Meeres befindet, was für Joe und sein Team eine große Peinlichkeit darstellt.  Die unbemannte, unbewaffnete Foto- und Audio-Spionagedrohne wurde bei einer Begegnung mit russischen Jets während einer geheimen Spionagemission für die Ukrainer direkt vor der Küste der Krim abgeschossen.

 Die Spionagemission für Selenskyj war eine ungerechtfertigte und unkluge US-Eskalation des Konflikts in der Ukraine.  Das Endergebnis war peinlich, als ein russischer „Top Gun“-Jetpilot den Propeller der Drohne fachmännisch mit dem Fahrwerk seines Flugzeugs streifte.  Die behinderte Drohne, deren Stütze abgeschert war, ging in Gewässern unter, wo die Russen sie sicher einsammeln werden.

 Der Drohnenabschuss war ein weiteres Beispiel für die gleichen fehlgeleiteten Treppenschritte unseres gebrechlichen, gealterten und geistig behinderten Präsidenten.  Ein Mann, der weit über seinem Kopf steckt … und einer, der dummerweise in den Dritten Weltkrieg stolpert, während er herumwirbelt und sich in eine Eskalation eines Stellvertreterkriegs in der Ukraine stolpert, für die er maßgeblich verantwortlich war.  Vergessen Sie nicht all diese ukrainischen Todesfälle, Bevölkerungsverschiebungen, Zerstörung der Infrastruktur, verlorene Ernten, Munitionsverschwendung, massive Zunahme des atmosphärischen Kohlenstoffs, ökologische Katastrophe, die durch Joe Bidens gepriesene Fähigkeit zur Diplomatie hätten vermieden werden können – alles, was er zu sagen hatte  war NEIN zur NATO-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine – was er ignorierte.

 Kein vernünftiger Mensch will einen dritten Weltkrieg oder einen nuklearen Schlagabtausch mit Russland.  Ein solches Ergebnis wäre eine humanitäre, wirtschaftliche und ökologische Katastrophe von enormen Ausmaßen, die die Menschen dazu bringen würde, sich die guten alten Zeiten des „einfachen Klimawandels“ zu wünschen, um den nuklearen Winter auszugleichen, den ein solcher Konflikt verursachen würde.

 Die Fakten.  Die USA und ihre Bevölkerung scheinen vereinbart zu haben, die Ukraine bei der „Verteidigung gegen die russische Aggression“ zu unterstützen.  Das hat dazu geführt, dass Waffen im Wert von 100 Milliarden Dollar an diese Nation geliefert wurden, die sie bis an die Zähne mit High-Tech-Waffen ausrüsten.  Dennoch haben sie den Krieg nicht „gewonnen“.  Kein US-Staat hat sich verpflichtet, „Russland zu besiegen“ oder „die Ukraine bis zum Ende“ zu vertreten.  Die Ausnahmen sind ein paar Kriegstreiber, die zu vergessen scheinen, dass sie Amerikaner sind, und mit geteilter Sympathie oder doppelter Loyalität handeln, während sie die Zwillingsflagge der USA und der Ukraine am Revers tragen.  Sie sind keine Patrioten.

 Materielle Unterstützung zu leisten ist eine Sache, aber tatsächlich in den Kampf einzugreifen – in die Kampfzone zu fliegen – um sie auszuspionieren und dann die Ukraine mit Informationen zu versorgen, ist eine ganz andere Sache.  Das Betreten der Kampfzone und Spionage für die Ukrainer, um über Truppenstandorte usw. zu berichten, ist ein offen feindseliger Akt, der sicherlich eine unerwünschte Eskalationsreaktion der Russen nach sich ziehen würde.

 Wollen wir die Russen wirklich zu weiteren Eskalationen dieses Krieges aufstacheln?  Will die Biden-Administration einen Atomkrieg?  Haben sie wirklich eine Strategie für den Ausgang dieses verheerenden Konflikts im Herzen Europas?  Haben sie einen Plan?  Es scheint nicht.

 Sie stolpern einfach herum wie Biden auf dem Rollfeld und versuchen, in die Air Force One zu steigen.

 Hör auf mit der Dummheit!

BIDEN INTENSIFIE LA GUERRE EN UKRAINE PAR DRONE ESPION

 Ces photos de Joe trébuchant à plusieurs reprises alors qu'il tente de gravir «l'escalier aérien» pour entrer dans Air Force One sont un paradigme de sa présidence.  C'est une débâcle après l'autre pour l'équipe de Joe, tous ces documents top secrets trouvés dans son garage, puis ne pas abattre un ballon espion chinois, puis l'abattre (et des ballons jouets aussi) et maintenant faire abattre nos propres drones espions dans  des eaux où la haute technologie américaine sera récupérée par des plongeurs russes et probablement reproduite par l'Iran.

 Le jour inquiétant des "Ides de mars" (le 15), nous avons de nouveau été confrontés à un autre exemple de "joe trébuchant".  À cette date, nous avons appris l'existence du drone américain Reaper maintenant au fond de la mer Noire, ce qui est un embarras majeur pour Joe et son équipe.  Le drone d'espionnage photographique et audio sans pilote et non armé a été abattu lors d'une rencontre avec des avions à réaction russes lors d'une mission d'espionnage secrète pour les Ukrainiens, juste au large des côtes de la Crimée.

 La mission d'espionnage de Zelenskyy était une escalade américaine injustifiée et imprudente du conflit en Ukraine.  Ses résultats finaux ont été embarrassants, lorsqu'un pilote de jet russe "Top Gun" a habilement brossé l'hélice du drone avec le train d'atterrissage de son avion.  Le drone désemparé, son hélice arrachée, est tombé dans des eaux où les Russes vont sûrement le récupérer.

 La chute du drone était un autre exemple des mêmes pas errants dans les escaliers de notre président fragile, âgé et souffrant de troubles mentaux.  Un homme bien au-dessus de sa tête… et un qui trébuche bêtement dans la troisième guerre mondiale alors qu'il se soucie et se fraye un chemin dans une escalade d'une guerre par procuration en Ukraine dont il était en grande partie responsable.  N'oubliez pas que tous ces morts ukrainiens, les dislocations de population, la destruction des infrastructures, les récoltes perdues, le gaspillage de munitions, l'augmentation massive du carbone atmosphérique, la catastrophe écologique, auraient pu être évités, grâce à la capacité de diplomatie tant vantée de Joe Biden - tout ce qu'il avait à dire  était NON à l'adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'OTAN, ce qu'il a ignoré.

 Aucune personne sensée ne veut une troisième guerre mondiale ou un échange nucléaire avec la Russie.  Un tel résultat serait un désastre humanitaire, économique et écologique aux proportions énormes qui ferait rêver les gens au bon vieux temps du « simple changement climatique » pour compenser l'hiver nucléaire qu'un tel conflit entraînerait.

 Les faits.  Les États-Unis et leur peuple semblent avoir accepté de soutenir l'Ukraine pour « se défendre contre l'agression russe ».  Cela s'est traduit par la livraison d'armes d'une valeur massive de 100 milliards de dollars à cette nation, l'armant jusqu'aux dents avec des armes de haute technologie.  Pourtant, ils n'ont pas « gagné la guerre ».  Aucune politique américaine n'a signé pour « vaincre la Russie » ou pour « l'Ukraine jusqu'au bout ».  Les exceptions sont quelques marchands de guerre qui semblent oublier qu'ils sont américains et agissent avec des sympathies partagées ou une double loyauté alors qu'ils arborent le drapeau jumelé des États-Unis et de l'Ukraine sur leurs revers.  Ce ne sont pas des patriotes.

 Fournir un soutien matériel est une chose, mais entrer dans la mêlée - voler dans la zone de combat - pour espionner, puis fournir des renseignements à l'Ukraine est un autre acte.  Entrer dans la zone de combat et espionner pour que les Ukrainiens signalent l'emplacement des troupes, etc., est un acte ouvertement hostile qui entraînerait sûrement une réponse d'escalade indésirable de la part des Russes.

 Voulons-nous vraiment pousser les Russes à de nouvelles escalades de cette guerre ?  L'administration Biden veut-elle une guerre nucléaire ?  Ont-ils vraiment une stratégie pour l'issue de ce conflit désastreux au cœur de l'Europe ?  Ont-ils un plan?  Il semble que non.

 Ils trébuchent simplement comme Biden sur le tarmac en essayant de monter dans Air Force One.

 Arrêtez la bêtise !

Spring Arrives. 2023

March 15th 2023

Our last winter storm battered the Northeast with wind, rain and snow….20 inches fell in southern Vermont. Most of us don’t know it…but Spring is here.  Some of us —winter’s indoor captives— may surmise its arrival from the  oh so political news programs gearing up for the summer political season.  But even for urban dwellers, our longer days and the height of  the sun above the horizon at noon cast light through our shaded windows and may give the arrival away. 

In New York  the actual day length is just five minutes short of a full 12 hour-day already. Of course it is on March 20 the official date of the Vernal Equinox, we will arrive at that 12 hour day all over the earth.  Fron that date onward the day will grow longer—and temperatures rise 

But the natural world ignores those numbers and has its own rules and regulations. Mother Nature is guided by mostly by the length of day and the intensity of sunlight.

 In this neck of the woods way back in mid February an early thaw warmed the soil above the freezing level. The  earthworm population  moved up through thawed soil to emerge. A winter rain washed them from their grassy haunts onto roads and paths where they struggled to survive.  But their early emergence foretold  the arrival of our  first flight of Robins.  Then too, about this time I noticed that our local non/migratory birds —Cardinals —were frequently observed in male and female pairs. Perhaps they too were anticipating an early spring. 

But by mid/March our local and migratory bird population were out in force. Today, I observed a pair of  Cardinals..the male in bright red mating plumage. Not far away a pair of House Finches were observed resting together on a sunny branch.  Nearby. a pair of Robins sunned themselves.  Others of this red breast species were stalked their prey spread out over the near by grassy areas cocking their  heads over the ground as they seek the early worm.  A  Carolina wren (or was it a House Wren?) sang his lovely song. As I arrived, he quit that branch and flew across the path to alight  on a branch. There he bobbed his upturned tail in its characteristic way.  

Flitting among this same thicket were a pair of Song Sparrows and not far away a pair of common Whitethroats. Along the path a few rods more I heard the distinctive call of the Redwing Blackbird. Calling to claim his  nesting place in the Forsythia thicket—a sure sign of Spring.  The dark blackbird with the red epaulettes clung  to a vertical branch where he continued his “con-ca-reee”, trilled over again from the Forsythia thicket.  

A mocking bird —was it the same one (?) I have seen all winter long   regularly sunning itself on its special branch—even on the coldest days—but today it flew by me, seeming unconcerned with all his new neighbors.  

Above, a murder of Crows with black wings flapping,  pass overhead in a bright blue sky cawing in pleasure (I imagine) just happy to fly in the bright sun and blue sky. And high above. like winged silver specks in the blue,  seagulls soared gracefully on a rising thermal. 

Spring is here..

Biden Did It—SVB Collapse—Blame Biden

 

Biden elected—high inflation—-high interest rates—jump in bond returns—-bank failures—Biden bailout—more bank failures .

Don’t let Joe back peddle away from blame for the collapse of the SVBank. Today I heard him state that the fault lay with  “the previous administration”  

Here is the truth.  Joe’s first act as President was to cut the legs from under the fossil fuel industry to placate the “greens” of his party.That act spiked fuel prices, which set off an inflationary spiral which Biden’s trillion dollar spending splurge only expanded and aggravated.  The high inflation rate ,  spiking to 9%, the highest in four decades,  forced the FED to raise interest rates. Higher interest rates drove returns on US Treasury bonds from 1.3% to 5% in less than a year. This affected all banks.  US banks  now hold some $650 billion in Treasury notes  

SVBank had deposits of $180 billion and most of its substantial  $200 billion assets in US. bonds.  (This was not responsible banking practices, a more diverse asset investment would have saved this bank.)  But the US bonds the bank held — were worth much less when newer US bonds returned almost five times the amount of the older bonds.  

A call on the Banks’s assets led to a forced a bond sale, a short fall, inability to meet deposit withdrawal  and eventual collapse of the bank. 

Biden’s ideological green policies and irresponsible politically-motivated spending led to this economic disaster.  

Biden made the situation even worse by  bailing out the depositors of this bank ..who were insured -like all US depositors—to only $250, 000.  Most of SVBs depositors (90%) irresponsibly had well over that amount on deposit in that bank.  Many had tens of millions on deposit  

Many  of these depositors were Democrat supporters.  Perhaps this had leverage in DC  where there seems two systems of justice and now two systems of banking  

Bailing out this bank makes it more likely that other banks and depositors will follow these irresponsible behaviors. 

Like Biden’s verbal and legal encouragement of millions of illegal immigrants to jump our border fences, here in the financial sector, he is encouraging irresponsible banking practices to favor a small clique of supporters and ignores the welfare of the nation.  His policies will have more undesirable, dangerous results than those that he whispered over his microphone   

  

BIDEN’S “DIVERSITY INCLUSION EQUITY (DIE) —DISASTROUS TWO YEARS—LEFT WING IDEOLOGY GOES DOWN IN FLAMES

 

DIVERSITY—INCLUSION—EQUITY—ROUTE TO DECLINE AND CHAOS 

It started with ideology and dogmatism taking the front seat from common sense and practical sound statesmanship. It has ended with the Biden  administration proving  the shortcomings,—nay existential threat—to any national  state which would populate its leadership ranks following now debunked left wing social goals of diversity, inclusion and equity—or “DIE”. 

Biden let the young ideologues run the show and run his administration and our great nation into the ground.

On the stump (in his basement hideaway) Biden bragged  he would populate his administration with the most women, most people of color, and the most sexually diverse members in US history.  He succeeded eminently in that goal.  But at what cost?  This diverse, incompetent group of “firsts” has brought us to a point of existential threat to the nation not experience since WW II! 

For the first “oldest, physically and mentally challenged” President in US history, Biden himself…has proved that we do need a change in Federal legislation to protect the nation  from physically frail, mentally failing old codgers with stenosis of their carotid arteries who simply will not give up the scepter of power.  They would prefer to die in office and thus bury all their errors, corrupt practices and malfeasance with them.  

Even prior to his election, Pres. Biden’s choice of VP was a sign of his irresponsibility.   In the fullness of his years,  and with his physical impairments he should  have chosen a VP candidate— clearly capable of actually taking over the reins of power were he to die in office. (he had the choice of many excellent women candidates in his party). His choice of incompetent, Kamala  Harris to fill the VP slot—tossing a bone to the diversity, inclusion, equity crowd in his party —- was his first act of dangerous irresponsibility.  We could have predicted the outcome of his disaster years at that point.  

After election, Biden went on to fill his administration with the most incompetent, dogmatic, impractical, ideological, wet behind the ears, and simply unprepared group of administrators in US history. (some exceptions are noted here, i.e HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge).  From his bumbling, giggling. always unprepared, “border czar” VP, who studiously ignored the massive immigration crisis;  to his incompetent Press Secretary (who proves the point of this piece each day) ; to his “do nothing, absentee,” first-gay Secretary of Transportation; his “weak, compliant”, AG Garland, who we all thank never made it to the Supremes; to his “silent general” at the Defense Department—a poor fit for leader of the that department; to his “ Blinken” disaster-prone Secretary of State, who with his similarly challenged wife ( also a Biden Cabinet member), have presided over one foreign policy disaster after another,  from death and disaster in Afghanistan to “no end in sight and no plan” Kyiv, to blowing up  Nordstream, to a possible nuclear exchange with Russia, collapse of U.S. prestige in the Middle East, to war drums with China, and the almost laughable Chinese Spy Balloon saga;  then at Treasury, Biden slotted in “old gal” Yellen, who has presided over the continuing domestic economic disaster wrought by Bidenflation.  This disaster initiated by Joe cutting off our fossil fuel industry at its knees, an act  which sent fuel prices sky ward, tipped off an inflation spiral and morphed  into  high interest rates, thus causing  bond rates to soar,  which then brought  on the collapse of SVB and the fearsome specter of wider bank failures,  economic collapse and recession. Janet rode these events out—not in command but more like being carried along as flotsam on a flooding stream  

The only positive outcome we can claim from this old man’s disaster-laced two year presidency so far, is that we are now certain that we should never again, elect an old guy, especially one who thinks that merit and meritocracy are bad words. 

And let’s never forget the danger of focusing on meaningless externals such as skin color, gender, sexual orientation when we choose our candidates for higher office…or any office.  We always want the best.  Picking from an artificially restricted pool of talent as Biden did leads only to disaster. 

The proof is right before us everyday!

 

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