Affirmative action is a zero-sum game that selects less qualified people over more qualified people on the basis of irrelevant characteristics. It's counterproductive and immoral and should be abolished.
How can the US can retain (regain?) its status as a first-world country, rather than continue what I see as its Third World Drift? Readers of my other blogs may be surprised by some of the opinions expressed here. Although I generally consider myself on the progressive left-- particularly on environmental issues-- on issues of crime and law and order I stand somewhere to the right of Benito Mussolini. I'm in favor of civilization. You'd be surprised how many people aren't.
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The Main Difference between 1st-World Countries and 3rd-World Countries
What we call the Modern World is a society heavily based in science and technology. The main difference between 1st-world countries and 3rd-world countries is that the former have a lot of people with a broad and deep understanding of these things whereas the latter have very few such people. Unless 3rd-world countries can educate-- or import-- a significant number of people in science and technology, they will never be part of the Modern World. Q.E.D.