One Less Sex Offender In Congress

The vote in Alabama is encouraging in that we aren't sending a sex offending crackpot to the Senate, which is better than the alternative.

It certainly is a little less encouraging in the fact that it was as close as it was, when we had a candidate who clearly was both unqualified and a child molester.

Still, small steps are better than no steps so we see an uptick in quality come January.

The bigger issue as we move into 2018 is how do progressive issues which are designed to help all Americans get communicated.

Part of the problem is that when you talk about the people who need the most help, it sounds a bit like favoritism.

Take Affirmative Action which is simply designed to provide an equal opportunity to groups that in the past have not had the same opportunity as others.

Well if in the past 99 out of a 100 successful candidates were majority candidates and you decide to reduce that to 90 out of a 100, you somewhat disadvantage 9 previously successful candidates.

If it is a zero sum game, you have winners and losers.

There is clearly still a long way to go in this country to level the playing field and I'm not sure everyone even wants to.

The best predictor of how your children are going to do is to look at how you are doing.

Yes we have some upward and downward mobility, but not as much as one would think so change is a very slow process.

We still have an obligation to try.