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Olog, likely you’re a well intentioned lad and I wasn’t baiting you; merely suggesting you reflect a moment on Washington’s words. Nothing more.
I’m neither a lefty nor questioning the sanity of our Founders, who though great men, were hardly infallible.
Jefferson asserted in the Declaration that ‘All Men are Created Equal” a nostrum well beyond ridiculous.
Plato, a much greater mind, identified the “Soul” as the attribute that makes each of us unique from birth; the astonishing miracle of creation!
And that was some 400 years before Christ and more than 2000+ years before Jefferson.

Jefferson asserted in the Declaration that “All Men are Created Equal” a nostrum well beyond ridiculous

You do not appear to belong here. Why did you register here?

We are created equal. What happens to us post-creation is up to us, however. It is the socialists that insist that all are equal from cradle to grave—or as Winston Churchill described it, such people want to consign humanity to the “equal sharing of misery”.

As for Plato, too many big-government central-planner tyrants take inspiration from his “Republic”. I refuse to regard a pagan as “a much greater mind” than any of the USA’s Founding Fathers.