Leftist Democrats, under Biden and Kamala, did their best to destroy the US military using the same tool they used to destroy our universities: DEI.
Leftists used DEI to admit unprepared students to universities and they used the same tactics to keep out qualified students who were white or Oriental. This discrimination worked for the leftists so well that they decided to implement a similar strategy by lowering the percentage of white males in the US military.
Most Americans could not believe that DEI would be introduced into hiring and promoting in sensitive areas of our economy. People used to joke that DEI might be used in hiring government employees, but no one would be foolish enough to install DEI parameters in the hiring in the medical area and with airline pilots.
Sadly, we have seen DEI implemented in the hiring of airline pilots and physicians. We have also seen some deadly results from these policies.
Under Biden, the Democrats were determined to push DEI policies in the military so that recruitment and promotion would focus on race and gender goals. Biden’s feckless Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, started implementing these policies in the military. Numerical quotas were set across the recruiting process.
At the US Naval Academy, black applicants with lower scores were accepted at twice the rate of whites with much higher scores. Advancement in the military was not based on meritocracy but rather on your skin color, gender or sexual preference.
In the overall recruiting process, the DEI goals worked. Soon a major problem reared its head. White males stopped joining the military. Suddenly, recruiting goals were not being met and the military was looking at being unable to meet their mandate of protecting our country.
Young white males, the backbone of our military, decided they did not want to join an organization that would be discriminating against them because of their skin color.
Fortunately, Trump was elected President and things immediately began to change. In a dangerous world, we do not want our military to be run by university bureaucrats. We want our young people in the military to be ready to give the ultimate sacrifice to protect the citizens of this country. For decades, young people, mainly white males, were willing to enlist in our military and make the sacrifices that are required for us to have the greatest warriors in the world.
When the Democrats forced the military to focus on climate change and started spending millions of taxpayer dollars on providing sex change operations for thousands of people, our enlistment numbers plummeted.
Trump and Secretary Hegseth sent a signal to the nation that warriors are wanted in the US military. Recruiting goals are starting to be achieved. Those young people who want sex change operations now can move to California where Gavin Newsom will have taxpayers foot the bill. The young people who want to be warriors can once again join the US military.


Bob Spencer
Publisher
Manatee Herald
publisher@manateeherald.com

