Conservatism, Fighting A Losing Battle

THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION has decided to move next year's all star game out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Other corporations, events, and money have made the same decision. Any idea why? Here's a few hints. The NBA is owned by billionaires whose profitable survival depends on public approval. Many of the BA's players are high income African-Americans from disadvantaged backgrounds, who have gained education in college, and are very aware of societal norms and trends. They lean liberal, embracing equality for minorities and alternative lifestyles, with legal protection for those groups. North Carolina, like all other states in the American south, is a conservative area in which most people don't like the gay and transgender lifestyle, and don't want former women who have recently become men to use the men's restrooms in public facilities. People in conservative parts of the country tend to think that laws protecting minorities constitute the unfair practice of establishing special protection for certain classes of citizens, and are thus discriminatory. More progressive people believe that these laws do not elevate minority groups to a special status, but merely elevate them to equal status, which they were previously denied. These things you already know. The rest of the country, however, is more progressive, and is trending towards acceptance of alternative lifestyles, and views laws in conservative states requiring people to use the restroom of the gender listed on their birth certificate, notwithstanding the fact that for transgenders, the birth certificate is no longer correct. The NBA, in short, believes that the progressive approach is the more lucrative, the best place to put its money. Conservatism conserves, preserves the status quo. Progressivism,the new name for liberalism, seeks progress through change. Only a moment's reflectin is necessary to understand which trend is inevitable, and which is fighting a losing battle.