Pay for Failure

A judge has decided that a test is discriminatory against blacks because they score lower on it than whites: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/nyregion/22vulcan.html?hpw And those who failed the test now get compensation payouts or unearned jobs with the fire department, including "retroactive seniority." How long will it be until black groups in this country manage to get all forms of testing outlawed as racist? I cannot think of a widely administered test on which blacks come close to matching whites. Therefore, ipso facto, all must be discriminatory. The title of this post fairly summarizes socialist political philosophy. It seems like all the liberal constituencies have policy agendas that weaken this country. They are the party of national self-destruction. Also, these are all collectivist groups, who disparage the dignity of the individual. They tolerate parasitism and encourage dependency.  To be fair, conservatives tend to be too uncritically fond of militarism and corporatism, neither of which conduce to individualism either. And they are overswayed by religionists and give disproportionate consideration to monetary priorities over others (eg, culture, environment, aesthetics, health, education, national strength, etc). In large part, the dementias afflicting both parties are set on by the corrupt procedure of gerrymandering political districts: the result of such is to segregate leftist voters in one voting district from rightists in another. Both sides then evolve "purer" forms of their underlying ideologies and place these ideologically pure types into office. First, both ideologies have serious problems, as above noted. Second, this process encourages a dogmatic, unthinking, inflexible, uncompromising, backward-thinking attitude among all politicians--which means stagnation, lack of useful innovations in the public sphere.