For some time now, I have been deliberating over a piece on political correctness, commonly referred to as PC. Donald Trump’s owes much of his popularity to his flagrant indifference to it.
The so-called “angry Americans,” sick and tired of promises not kept by the last person they voted into office, are pleased when Trump says what he thinks, regardless if its vulgar, abusive, rude and outrageous.
PC has found its way into all levels of our society, especially where privilege and property are growing. It can be said that PC is the revenge of resentful underdogs.
It seems odd to me that it is in this country, where we have grown to respect freedom of speech, that our citizens have allowed PC censorship. After all, for the most part, we don’t go out of our way to be disrespectful.
The British journalist and historian Paul Johnson describes Trump as a major contrast to President Obama, “the creation of reverse discrimination,” a forerunner of PC on campuses. “The fact that Obama was elected not once, but twice shows how deep-set the rot is and how far along the road to national impotence the country has traveled.”
Think about it. We are now fixed on “white privilege,” “black lives matter,” and “transgender restrooms.” What next? The Obama administration is now concerned that minorities are visiting our national parks in insufficient numbers and we have to do something about that.
“The Democratic nomination seems likely to go to the relic of the Clinton era, herself a patiently assembled model of political correctness, who is carefully instructing America’s most powerful groups in what they want to hear and whose strongest card is the simplistic notion that the U.S. has never had a woman president and out of have one now, merit being a secondary consideration,” – Paul Johnson
Writing how the U.S. – by far richest and most productive nation on earth – has been outsmarted, outmaneuvered and made to appear a second class power under President Obama, Johnson says, “The world is disorderly and needs its leading nation to take charge and scare it back into decency,” writes Johnson, “Donald Trump fits the bill. Trump is a man of excess – and today a man of excess is what’s needed.”
If Trump can help put PC in the rearview mirror, that would be a plus.
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