Nice day yesterday with our friends, and seeing another baseball game. Now, the true climb north begins. We bought a new Bentley for the trip north, trading in our reliable, but aging, Prius. We understand we will get the same mileage, about 65 mpg on the highway.

And it won’t just be the rwo of us. Our friend Screech will be sitting in the back seat.

But while enjoying the good company and good weather,  the serious worries obviously continue. We listened to a podcast with Yale’s Tim Snyder talking about how we should be approaching the country’s march into a form of dictatorship, which was chilling.

One of the things that Snyder warned about was acting in anticipation of the pending dictator. Of normalizing the abnormal on your own. This reminded me of something that happened in Europe as Hitler moved east, and residents began chasing Jews on their own before forced to by the Germans. The thinking was: the Nazis are coming, they will roundup and kill the Jews, and if we do it first, thdy will like us and treat us well.

I see this happening in the 180 degree response to DEI going on now in so many places. Anything that smacks of taking race into account in any hiring or admission decision is being avoided like the plague.

This does not result in an even playing field, as the proponents of this change dishonestly suggest, but rather enables prejudices against Blacks and others silently come into operation. Not only is the history of Black oppression ignored, but there is now an assumption that every Black has earned his or her position only through DEI, and his probably unqualified, that there is a more qualified White who should have that job, and whoever hired the Black employee in the first place should be canceled. If you haven’t read about it, a good example is the firing of the chancellor of VMI.

And when a company or institution changes its hiring practices on its own, it simply plays into the hands of the authoritarian. Think about it.

Yet, I don’t see or hear a groundswell of opposition from Black leadership yet. I go back to the Hitler days when so many American Jews refused to raise their voices for fear that it would simply stoke more antisemitism here.

So many issues. So little time.

Time to hit the road.