The Biden administration, through state-sponsored
media outlets like the Washington Post, has instructed Americans to “consciously
lower expectations.” For their own good.
As
evidenced by the Washington Post itself, it would be well-nigh impossible for
mainstream media outlets to lower their standards. It’s a good thing the
Founders-- and vast majority of later American presidents-- didn’t believe we
should just “lower our expectations” (and standards) like the Biden
administration does.
Imagine Washington
at Valley Forge saying, “Lower your expectations, boys.” Or Ben Franklin
standing up during a long and difficult impasse at the Constitutional Convention
in 1787 stating, “I think we all just need to lower our expectations of what is
possible to achieve here.”
Here’s
Lincoln at Gettysburg: “We must learn an important lesson from those who died
here. That lesson is: it is imperative that we lower our expectations.”
FDR in
1933: “All we have to fear…is higher than warranted expectations!” Inspiring!
JFK?: “We
might get to the moon someday. We might not. It is best if we simply lower our
expectations, since then, in the end, we won’t risk being disappointed.”
And the
Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan: “It’s morning in America. Well, maybe late
morning or early afternoon. All right, f**k it. It’s dinner time. But who
really cares, anyway? Nothing matters and what if it did? I’m begging all
Americans to just lower their expectations.”
And Reagan
again: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Or at least a little piece of it.
Maybe just knock a chunk out of it with a hammer. Or write some mildly
non-Communist graffiti on it. If you don’t mind. Thank you.”
Thank God
explorers, settlers, gold-seekers, inventors, small-business owners,
entrepreneurs, soldiers, the “Greatest Generation,” athletes, firemen, physicians,
etc., haven’t typically possessed the “lower your expectations” mindset!
The late Paul
Harvey famously noted: “Why should anyone aspire to be a common man, an average
man? Do you realize what it means to be average? That means you’re the best of
the lousiest…and the lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand more and more for
producing less and less, while the have-not nations encourage, and inspire, and
indeed require hard work and maximum effort—if we deify the common man while
they encourage and reward the uncommon ones—well, the end result of such a
lopsided race as that is too obvious to require elaboration.”
Nowadays,
due to standards being dramatically lowered in our schools in recent years, the
phrase “require elaboration” might well require elaboration. If not a thorough
explanation.
Good day.
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