I think any reasonable candidate must oppose the “occupy Wall Street” demonstrations. Amid the cacophony of slogans energizing these people equality of outcome seems to resonate. However, our governing documents contemplate equality of opportunity, in which each person determines the place of materialism. Whatever material advantages some people may gain were always intended to be subject to the rule of law.
The pursuit of happiness means primarily spiritual prosperity within the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. It does not mean the government will ensure protection of home values, college funds, retirement accounts, savings, executive severance packages, affordable healthcare, homeownership, lifetime employment, corporate wealth, political careers, and union benefits. There is no happiness within illusions of material security provided by politicians and their allies, because these initiatives always require accepting subservience to a new set of laws.
These new laws are administrative laws, and with their associated regulations, constitute the soft underbelly of our Constitution. Under administrative law like Roman civil law a person is subject to its penalties and restrictions until they discover some way to legally extricate themselves; a profoundly difficult process. Under English common law, which has its source in natural rights, and which serves as the basis for our Constitution, a person is innocent and not subject to the penalties of the law until proved guilty.
Equality of outcome is the rallying cry for concepts of government such as Communism, Bolivarism, Fascism, Socialism, and National Socialism. These governing structures rely upon ever more restrictive network of administrative laws to fortify a perpetual ruling elite.
Well that is an excellent, reasoned and thoughtful post.
However, it is several magnitudes of intellectual understanding above the level of the Wall Street hippies, the generational parasites, and the Union slobs who put the RaceMarxist in power, for the very purpose of achieving equality of outcome, by, of course, stealing from others.