The Largest
Minority
Charlie Earl
While the
two fossilized old parties are constructing strategies for pursuing the Latino
vote, both parties have miserably failed to appeal to the largest minority in
the nation and the world. The individual is marginalized and ignored as policy
makers and their minions implement grand schemes for targeted demographic
groups.
One does not
have to be historian to understand that humans have gravitated toward communal
living for security and social purposes. On the other hand our written and oral
histories are replete with stories of those who disagreed with others and
struck out on their own. The group is not the basic element of human life. The
individual is. Individuals drift from group to group while seeking communal compatibility.
It seems somewhat fruitless therefore for social scientists and the governments
who rely on their findings to focus on “groups” when the clusters are in a
state of constant flux.
Individuals
represent the basic element of any social structure. Any parent can attest to
the reality that each of their children is uniquely different….even though they
spring from the identical gene pool. Yet… demographers, political parties,
bureaucrats and legislators insist on addressing people as groups or clusters
while ignoring their individual deviations from the norm of the designated
group. In an elemental way this explains why governments must resort to force
to assure compliance with dictates for the “common good.” It is the equivalent
of government force and social ostracism being used to force square pegs into
round holes.
Our
individual natures inherently lead to the conclusion that huge communities,
cities, states or countries are counter-productive. Individual inspiration and
creativity are throttled by the constraints of the system. Individual desires,
no matter how lofty, are sacrificed for the mediocre good for all. The larger a
society becomes the more necessary it is for force to be used as a means for
ensuring order and total compliance. A social structure of “one” is the most
free. Those who have voluntarily mated or married realize that forging two “ones”
into “one” is an extremely difficult task. To extend the energy for harmony to
hundreds or thousands or even millions of individuals suggests that individual
identities will be submerged or lost in order to promote the unreal “common
good.”
The wisdom
of our Framers was their awareness that local smaller units of self governance
were most conducive for individual liberty. The Constitution of the United States specifically limits the power of
the federal government to trample individual rights in order to give individual
states and their local communities the primary task for structuring community
mores and rules. As the power and force of government moves further away from
individuals, their unique qualities are blurred and the society suffers. The
forgotten minority is the largest minority. That minority is YOU.
Charlie Earl
