It was 1959 when Dinah Washington
recorded a tune, “What a Difference a Day Makes,” one of about
340 re-recordings since its original recording in 1934; that initial
version was in Spanish and under a different name. But that’s
another story for another day.
This song is, of course, regarding a woman singing her heart out over a fellow – or another woman – extolling his ability to bring flowers and blues skies and rainbows to her mundane life. As an aside, if you’re a particular Supreme Court Justice, you’re likely still unsure as to the sex.
Today, however, I’m stopping after the first stanza where this song can move in many directions. This story isn’t concerning the song at all, rather its title is the key.
For generations, Americans have been playing by a set of rules governing voting and, subsequently, elections. It is well known that if a person is arrested and convicted for a felony their privilege to own a firearm, drive a car on public roads, and vote, is curtailed.
The reason for this seizing of freedoms is not a hard stretch to fathom. If the felon continues to be able to vote, they have the potential to elect and re-elect their felon and miscreant buddies. Once in office, those buddies are difficult to remove. All the while, they have the abilities to change, introduce, and modify current legislation to suit their own sordid lifestyles of crime.
Witness some major American cities today. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Baltimore, and Milwaukee, are just a few that appear to have crossed the Rubicon between law and order.
“How so?” you ask. It seems as though the above-mentioned municipalities have been socially re-engineered by people who have little in the way of law and order in mind, and more about making America more beholding to convicted criminals.
For decades we have heard the drum beat of equality; that has now been modified to read “equity” which is quite different from “equality.”
Equality is the ability for everyone to achieve the same goals as everyone else through a good education, hard work, initiative, and civility. Equity, on the other hand, is achieving the same results as the balance of Americans simply by using race, sex, or minority status as a barometer of value.
An earnest effort has been underway for years to move this equity-push into society in order to modify the norms through racial discrimination; in other words, moving the finish line. And it’s working.
With help from private organizations using legislation and twisted logic, laws are being modified nearly weekly to accommodate the perpetually-biased Democratic Party to help get more and more black criminals out of prisons and back onto the voter’s rolls.
It’s amazing how easily the words, ‘He/she served their time and now their voting/gun/driving privileges should be reinstated,’ roll off a liberal’s tongue. End of discussion.
Those using the above words like to add that it is largely the black population suffering from this form of “racial” and “systemic racism” so that they may be further disenfranchised. That’s a lie.
A deeper dive into this simple-minded approach is to look at who is being subjected to this so-called discrimination.
Beginning with facts that are even difficult to muster, the number blacks living in America is between 12.1 and 14.2% of the population, depending on whose reporting is utilized. For this story I’ll use the 14.2% number, for the sake of argument.
Americans have been indoctrinated into believing that at least half – 50% - of the population is comprised of blacks. As is evidenced above, roughly ¼ of that number is more accurate. Still, television ads are peppered with at least one black actor in nearly every commercial and TV show.
If that were the case, every sports team – to include NBA, NFL, and MLB, team would have a ‘balanced’ team roster reflecting equality. But as noted previously, it’s not about equality. Equity being king, jumping places in the fairness line of life is paramount. Too bad anyone in post-slavery America still believes it’s okay to discriminate. Just sayin’.
Still, the crux of this story is about forgiving people for their indiscretions in their lives. Just because the law-breakers-in-question are in prison because of firearm, narcotics, sex abuse, child abuse, even manslaughter and murder charges, we, as a society, are expected to put our faith and hope and trust into these criminals, once again.
That’s a tall order, since all those aforementioned crimes are serious against actual immediate victims, as well as the balance of society, the results of which are that others were hurt or killed. Not insignificant consequences at the hand of another.
Forgiving people is supposed to be biblical in nature but must include atonement for proven and tried indiscretions. Without further bloating guvment – either local, state, or federal – I believe a review committee or board should be in-charge of overseeing restitution of societal privileges.
There’s been much in the way of fairness, as well as perceived interwoven racial discrimination, being bandied about over justice.
Yet here we stand watching and listening to self-righteous Democrats scream the words “fairness,” “rule of law,” and “democracy.” Unfortunately, it’s clear they don’t know what those words mean.
While they carp and argue and file countless lawsuits over an election that was said to be stolen, an election that was rightfully settled by the Electoral College, and foreign guvment interference as yet another issue, former President Donald J. Trump is being subjected to one baseless lawsuit after another.
But it’s not because he was convicted for crimes. It’s because he is feared by Democrats and their sleazy supporters who so dearly need to maintain control over our disjointed guvment run by imbeciles and child thinkers.
Zero wars were started under Trump, four wars were thus far started under Biden.
We’ve gone from flowers and rainbows under President Trump’s administration, to a hurricane of ineptness under a Biden administration.
What a difference a day makes.
