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Eliminating DEI doesn’t do what you think.

This new administration keeps telling us DEI is responsible for subpar employees. It prevents employers from hiring the best.

Yet by Trump’s own cabinet picks, the recent confirmation hearings are disproving that claim in a spectacular fashion.

Let’s look at the current nominee under consideration, Robert Kennedy Jr. to head up the Department of Health and Human Services. Let’s overlook the reported brain worm and get to some of the more disturbing aspects of this nominee. 

During the recent hearing, Kennedy made it clear he had no idea what Medicaid was, especially after he expressed his opinion that those who used Medicaid were dissatisfied with the high fees and deductibles of Medicaid. 

If you don’t know what is wrong with that statement, then you too know nothing about Medicaid.

He also said the American people didn’t want the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and preferred private medical insurance. As someone who believes ACA saved her life, I’m not asking you to share my opinion that he is clueless on this topic, but you might consider the reaction of many Americans after the killing of the UHC CEO, and the outpouring of horror stories shared by Americans about private medical insurance companies.

Kennedy was also credited as responsible for the measle outbreak in Samoa when he pushed his anti vax view over there. 

It’s common knowledge Kennedy was a heroin user for years.  But my issue is not with Kennedy being a recovered drug addict (assuming he is recovered). My issue is the fact he has made public statements about how before the drug use, he was struggling in school,  but with heroin he went to the top of his class.

A while back Trump talked about implementing an anti-drug program in our country that reminded many of us of Nancy Reagan’s Just-Say-No program. Not sure how the Secretary of the Department of Health sharing with the world how heroin improved his grades in college will help keep young people from trying drugs. It might even tempt some who never considered heroin to give it a try. 

Kennedy isn’t just a subpar candidate; he is a woefully unqualified candidate for the position. But so was Hegseth for the Department of Defense. 

They are two white men who have abused substances and have been creditably accused of sexual abuse. And aside from those two moral deficiencies, just like Hegseth does not have the experience or qualifications to head Department of Defense, Kennedy does not have the experience or qualifications to head the Department of Health. And if either man was guided by character as opposed to white man ego, they would decline the positions offered them, for the betterment of our country.  

And yet we are told, it is DEI that prevents the qualified candidates from landing the job.