Fox News host Tucker Carlson doesn’t appear to be looking forward to a potential Joe Biden presidency any more than most supporters of President Trump, and he went through one of the main reasons why on Tuesday during his opening monologue.
Namely, Carlson believes that America’s system of “meritocracy” – that is, getting ahead based principally on your education, capabilities, and skills – will be permanently eroded under a Biden administration, leading to our general decline because it created a climate where incompetent people thrive who otherwise wouldn’t.
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Carlson began with a clip from Democratic Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, who announced his plan recently to fight the latest public health crisis on the horizon — not the resurgence of the novel coronavirus, but racism.
“So ‘racism is a public health crisis,’ says Greg Fischer. Dr. Fisher plans to attack this crisis with an executive order,” Carlson said. “Will masks help contain the spread of racism? They certainly haven’t before, but we will see. Or maybe we won’t see.”
Carlson went on to say that politicians preferred fighting intangible things like racism, sadness, alienation and other things because there was no way to state definitively that the battle was over.
“The battle goes on forever. You’re always justified in fighting it of course. By definition. In the war against racism, you are always the good guy,” he explained.
“It’s an old trick, obviously. Al Sharpton doesn’t pay his taxes and then he calls you a bigot for asking him about it. But the tactic suddenly seems more popular than ever,” Carlson continued. “You see it everywhere all of a sudden. And there’s a reason. The more obvious it becomes that the people in charge are stupid and selfish, the more time they spend attacking you and the country they’re supposed to be leading. They divide us to keep us from noticing how awful they are. And unfortunately, it works pretty well and that’s why they do it.”
He noted further that eliminating meritocracy is an objective for incompetent people so they can become more important, wealthier, and powerful without having to earn it.
“They hate it above all. That’s why they’re tearing it down,” he said. “So, what does it look like in practice to tear down a meritocracy? Well, it looks a lot like Joe Biden’s staffing of presidential administration.”
Citing a story in Politico, Carlson noted that already various political factions and demographic groups were competing for slots in Biden’s administration but not because the people they are recommending are necessarily qualified or even the most qualified.
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“According to Politico’s account, the Congressional Black Caucus is demanding that Biden select a black secretary of defense. Not a secretary of defense was good at defending America. A secretary of defense with the correct skin color. The feminist groups are mad about this, says Politico. Not mad because it would leave the country vulnerable. No, because they want a female secretary of defense. Why do they want a female secretary of defense? Because they are females. The secretary of defense should look like them because it’s all about them, not about the Pentagon or the country or the military threats we might face in the future,” Carlson explained. “It is about identity, which is to say it’s about narcissism. When I see people in power, I must see myself. That’s the demand.”
“Got that? Hispanic, black, gay. Those are categories, they are not people, individuals. This is about identity, not country,” Carlson went on. “Straight white men are the enemy, says the party led by one, and so it goes. It’s hard to imagine anything uglier than this.”
