President Joe Biden issued an executive order last week to basically create a five-year plan for the implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion across a huge swath of government agencies.
Biden does not actually call for five-year plans in his latest order — it's more urgent than that. Agency heads will have to submit an annual Equity Action Plan to a newly created White House Steering Committee on Equity, which, if we want to continue the Soviet analogy, will be the DEI equivalent of Gosplan.
Agency heads are ordered to "prioritize and incorporate strategies to advance equity" into "individual performance plans for senior executives." The Agency Equity Teams "shall support continued equity training and equity leadership development for staff across all levels of the agency's workforce."
There's an amusing Orwellian rhetorical tic in the order's references to "equity for all." At one point the edict says the "term ‘equity' means the consistent and systematic treatment of all individuals in a fair, just, and impartial manner."
It then goes on to list all the specific groups who deserve to be treated "equitably," beginning with "Black, Latino, Indigenous and Native American, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander persons and other persons of color."
Indoctrination within the federal bureaucracy will continue apace. Known for its Democratic leanings, getting it to embrace the latest left-wing fashion shouldn't be a heavy lift. Regardless, with a nomenklatura empowered from on high, anyone who is not on board will be intimidated into staying silent or simply leave for another job.
All of this is insidious. Obviously, some of the departments and agencies involved are enormously powerful, and their workings shouldn't be skewed by ideology. Biden is changing, or at least distorting, their missions and diverting some portion of their resources to a goal Congress never authorized — or imagined.
It's bad enough the federal government is a blundering behemoth, but if Joe Biden gets his way, Leviathan is about to become thoroughly and determinedly woke.
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