August 16, 2025
Sleeping with the Devil
Timothy Birdnow
Tyler Durden at Zerohedge delineates the plot by the Left to quietly implement DEI policies in red states across America.
FTA:
We've seen this sort of thing before. We had, for instance, the Annenberg Challenge which was set up by a conservative billionaire to find solutions to Chicago's dreadful educational system and wound up with people like the communist terrorist William Ayers on the board. I assure you Ayers was not just thinking of the children's best interests. Of course this was in deep blue Chicago, but there are other examples in more conservative places. For example, in Wyoming, a solidly red state, bureaucrats in family services have aggressively pushed DEI and gender transitioning, going so far as to take children away from parents for not accepting their "gender identity".And in Montana a child was taken away from the parents because they refused to transition him. This in the haven for cowboys and real men.
So it's been happening and continues to do so.
The article continues:
And that sums it up. The Left embeds themselves in the bureaucracy and when liberals are out of political power they remain in place and move forward. In time what they are doing becomes the norm. This is called the Overton Window, the endless pushing that makes the norm the outlier and the outlier the norm. It works. It is also sometimes called Fabian Socialism. Like the Devil it has many names but is always the same evil entity.
They never lose because we do not play by the same rules and we do not try to reverse things - just hold our ground. As Patton said, fixed fortifications are a testament to the stupidity of man, and in the political and social battles we are forever trying to defend our fixed fortifications while they attack. WE never attack, or didn't until Trump. He's been going at them and it's been working because in the end their policies and ideas are both unpalateable and crazy.
This is wehre we need to be. They should be trying to get around US in these bureaucracies.
At any rate this is how the game is played and why we've lost for so many years. Time to turn the tables.
Tyler Durden at Zerohedge delineates the plot by the Left to quietly implement DEI policies in red states across America.
FTA:
The report, first reported by Fox News, details how a web of well-funded national associations, often posing as nonpartisan or professional groups, is behind this trend, pushing what SLI calls "shadow governance.” These groups set policy frameworks, control federal funding, and offer "best practices” that lean heavily into left-leaning priorities, according to Fox News.
Among the organizations exposed in the report are the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD), and the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). SLI’s report examined 23 of the largest associations and found widespread embrace of DEI initiatives, transgender ideology policies, and ESG principles.
One example highlighted in the report points to NAMD’s push for equity over outcomes in Medicaid reform. In its 2021 Regulatory Priorities document, NAMD listed 11 "broad issues” for improving state Medicaid programs, with "advancing equity in Medicaid” as the top focus. The document reads, "Equity work should include a focus on racial and ethnic minorities, rural populations, Tribal populations, and any other groups experiencing disparate health outcomes, with an understanding that inequities are multidimensional and often fall across multiple population characteristics or categories. We also see discrete areas where focus would be beneficial, bearing in mind that the work to advance equity in Medicaid is holistic and branches across all issue domains.”
Among the organizations exposed in the report are the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD), and the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). SLI’s report examined 23 of the largest associations and found widespread embrace of DEI initiatives, transgender ideology policies, and ESG principles.
One example highlighted in the report points to NAMD’s push for equity over outcomes in Medicaid reform. In its 2021 Regulatory Priorities document, NAMD listed 11 "broad issues” for improving state Medicaid programs, with "advancing equity in Medicaid” as the top focus. The document reads, "Equity work should include a focus on racial and ethnic minorities, rural populations, Tribal populations, and any other groups experiencing disparate health outcomes, with an understanding that inequities are multidimensional and often fall across multiple population characteristics or categories. We also see discrete areas where focus would be beneficial, bearing in mind that the work to advance equity in Medicaid is holistic and branches across all issue domains.”
We've seen this sort of thing before. We had, for instance, the Annenberg Challenge which was set up by a conservative billionaire to find solutions to Chicago's dreadful educational system and wound up with people like the communist terrorist William Ayers on the board. I assure you Ayers was not just thinking of the children's best interests. Of course this was in deep blue Chicago, but there are other examples in more conservative places. For example, in Wyoming, a solidly red state, bureaucrats in family services have aggressively pushed DEI and gender transitioning, going so far as to take children away from parents for not accepting their "gender identity".And in Montana a child was taken away from the parents because they refused to transition him. This in the haven for cowboys and real men.
So it's been happening and continues to do so.
The article continues:
"Conservative leaders are fond of declaring victory,” the report reads. "They win elections, pass legislation, and appoint agency heads with great fanfare, yet, on issue after issue, the administrative state trudges forward in open defiance of their mandate: enforcing equity initiatives, embedding climate policy, and advancing bureaucratic priorities wholly alien to the voters who ostensibly elected the government. This disconnect is not incidental. It is structural.”
"The ideological left does not need to win a single statehouse so long as it controls the bureaucratic bloodstream,” the report added.
"The ideological left does not need to win a single statehouse so long as it controls the bureaucratic bloodstream,” the report added.
And that sums it up. The Left embeds themselves in the bureaucracy and when liberals are out of political power they remain in place and move forward. In time what they are doing becomes the norm. This is called the Overton Window, the endless pushing that makes the norm the outlier and the outlier the norm. It works. It is also sometimes called Fabian Socialism. Like the Devil it has many names but is always the same evil entity.
They never lose because we do not play by the same rules and we do not try to reverse things - just hold our ground. As Patton said, fixed fortifications are a testament to the stupidity of man, and in the political and social battles we are forever trying to defend our fixed fortifications while they attack. WE never attack, or didn't until Trump. He's been going at them and it's been working because in the end their policies and ideas are both unpalateable and crazy.
This is wehre we need to be. They should be trying to get around US in these bureaucracies.
At any rate this is how the game is played and why we've lost for so many years. Time to turn the tables.
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