2020 DNC Convention in One Word

Throughout the 2020 DNC Convention we may have heard this word 100 times. It serves as the "backbone" of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. That word is... empathy!!! Be empathetic! Be compassionate! We apparently need politicians to "restore the soul of America." Pathos! Pathos! Pathos!

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We heard "empathy" thrown around a lot at the DNC Convention, but I don’t want a self-appointed Uncle Joe or Auntie Michelle Obama to take care of me. I got my own family and I can take care of myself, thank you very much! I don’t want “empathetic” leaders, which I do find odd that the way to empathy and love is through dehumanizing and hating your opposition, but nonetheless even if they did “go high” by raising the intellectual discourse instead of constantly playing to voter’s heartstrings then I still wouldn’t want the median American voter to have too much control over my — education, healthcare, housing, work, consumption, life. “H*ll is paved with good intentions.” — John Jay I don’t want politicians who think with their hearts. I want a more Calvin Coolidge-esque president… “We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. It stands out strong and vigorous and mature. We must have an administration which is marked, not by the inexperience of youth, or the futility of age, but by the character and ability of maturity. We have had the self control to put into effect the Budget system, to live under it and in accordance with it. It is an accomplishment in the art of self government of the very highest importance. It means that the American Government is not a spendthrift, and that it is not lacking in the force or disposition to organize and administer its finances in a scientific way.” — Calvin Coolidge If you want to be empathetic then go into a non-profit (or business). Non-profits and for-profits have more pressure to deliver positive results whereas politicians just need to deliver a good speech. We need less “empaths” in government who take pleasure from the applause of “the masses” and we need more engineers in government who take pleasure in creating more efficient well-oiled systems with very little fluff and glitter. The federal government should be a solid, sturdy, cold, dispassionate structure. And then it’s for local governments, charities, businesses, and individuals to inject more of their hearts into their own respective domains because freedom is about giving people more creative control over their lives. And this way, if these more localized units make a mistake then not only would it affect less people, but it’d also be easier to undo whereas mistakes on the federal level often get lost behind its complexity and a warm smile.