Equality in Freedom or Equality in Slavery?

American Thinker ^ | Anthony J. DeBlasi

[RoosterRedux]

Contrary to leftist naysaying rhetoric, the Constitution of the United States provides the best legal instructions possible for insuring equality with liberty for all. That the Constitution is not always faithfully followed, even by Supreme Court justices, tells us that equality before the law can get corrupted into equality under the law, turning America's Law of the Land into an instrument of control by special-interest power players.

When political passion fails to get restrained by law above partisan interests, it corrupts government and hurts the people under its rule. This came about in France during a revolution in 1789 that sought to destroy a corrupt monarchy, turning justice into barbarity at the guillotine. In the rallying cry of the French Revolution — Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! — truth was pummeled by political passion. For in order for brothers to be free, they must be permitted to be unequal — allowed, that is, to follow their varied individual lights, and that leads inexorably to inequality of outcome.

Our prophetic 19th-century visitor (Tocqueville) cautioned: "Egalité ... means, no one shall be better off than I am; and [where] this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible."

While pretending fairness, egalitarianism puts equality in a straitjacket of envy and vengeance. The consuming fire of egalitarianism that started a Reign of Terror in France smolders still in movements like feminism, multiculturalism, and other rebellions against sound social order in the name of "social justice," marketed since the 1970s. Their camouflage is wearing thin, since these attacks on the wrong enemy can't forever hide their underlying evil.

Leveling all people to a common denominator, the operating principle of egalitarianism, not only produces bloodbaths, as in the French Revolution, but reduces human life and its aspirations to servitude under morally handicapped leaders.

[ronnie raygun]

Old failed manifests that are paraded and celebrated and taught to our coddled basement dwelling snowflakes as the new and improved while destroying foundations and history that tells a different story that is hidden from them is a recipe we do not want to sample. They know what thier doing we’ve been asleep and trusting those who said they were minding the store and now here we are. In the next 4 we need to not only destroy those who support, fund and encourage this but also those who we thought were with us. The great weeding out has begun.

[bennowens]

Great article! We forget that equality of outcome is socialism.

[foreverfree]

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