Hey Everyone!
A few weeks ago, I heard several prominent TV personalities talking about "demographic shifts that none of us voted for," and it occurred to me to wonder, am I the only person to find that concept to be surrealistically bizarre? I mean -- practical considerations aside; what are they suggesting, a controlled reproduction program like communist China? -- where did people get the idea that anyone has the right to "vote" on other people's right to exist? Perhaps a review of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence is in order? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
By definition, you don't get to vote on inalienable rights because they are rights that are intrinsic to a person's status as a human being. This is something that should have been covered repeatedly in elementary, middle, and high school social studies, government, and civics classes. Which is why it was so strange to me that, ostensibly well-educated, adults went on national television and said things that indicate that they are apparently unfamiliar with this most basic of tenets that our country was founded on. Charitably, I can only surmise that they really aren't smarter than a fifth grader. Because, frankly, the only alternative possibility I can think of makes me shudder.
Peace!
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