Diversity

 Rambling rant...

The party espousing diversity is behaving in ways completely contradictory to acknowledging the actual diversity our nation represents.

We have a system of governance involving three branches in order to balance power. Only one branch, the legislation, has the power to create law. It's structure was designed with recognition of the diversity of individual interests (House of Representatives) and the diversity of States' interests (Senate).

In recent times, this fundamental diversity has been ignored and overridden by an expanding Executive Branch through executive orders creating legislation and claiming "a mandate" based on winning a presidential election. We also have a judicial branch increasingly legislating through rulings.

Though it is the party of "choice," the Democratic Party has no tolerance or respect for the validity of thoughts or speech that doesn't fit their narrative - a narrative designed to enhance their power, not support the nation.

I'm a deep believer in rule of law and democracy - but I am thrown now into a position of feeling as if the government we have is autocratic and self-serving and, therefore, no matter what it labels itself, is anything but representative of our best ideals. The structures which respect minority opinion are being eroded in our schools, our courts, our laws, our lives.

The ruling party is "pro-choice"only when it relates to what happens in the womb - not at all when it relates to what happens in the brain and the heart.