Equality for All

The recent election and the riots disrupting our cities seem to center around equality.  Equality for All.  The BLM movement is only one small part of the thinking of many people that equality is part and parcel of what is rightly theirs.  Didn’t the Founders specifically put that in the Constitution?    The Founders believed that all men should have equal opportunities….. not that all men are created equal!  We all have different talents and abilities.  There are no two of us that are alike.  We have the power within us to achieve or to see ourselves as victims in an unequal society.

The question of the day seems to be whether or not equality can be legislated.  The short answer is “yes”.  The government can legislate anything.  The great dream for thousands of people is to be given equality.  They view others as having more rights and privileges than they do.  We see the rise of hatred and greed rooted in envy which begins when whole classes of people believing  that the difference between themselves and others are a consequence of oppression.  Something outside themselves that is causing this.  They demand that their lives be improved by differential laws and quotas aimed at leveling inequalities. 

The problem being, of course, is that laws and quotas which promote policies such as “affirmative action” impose a new inequality, not based on ability but solely on race or sex.  This type of equality is discriminating…… favoring one group that has earned no rewards and against another that deserves no punishment!   However, these groups seeking equality believe that the power of law must be used to equalize all citizens. This type of mindset, therefore, demands that a strong central government is needed to control its citizens and provide equality.

We know that many of our people have little access to improving their lives.  Many children are brought up with no family values; single family homes where mostly likely the mother must work at two jobs to provide for her children; poor educators who take no interest in their students; or those who prefer selling drugs to working at hamburger joints.  Which is more profitable?

However in the Utopian world they seek ….. No one is responsible for their actions.   There is no desire to improve lives by personal development or willingness to share in the caring of their fellow countryman.  Therefore it becomes a singular effort to force equality by socialist means…….to the point that all dissenting voices must be silenced.  That seems to be rather drastic doesn’t it? 

I am taking two History magazines and one of them devoted several pages to the French Revolution.  The French citizens were brainwashed into believing the gospel of Revolutionaries such as Robespierre.  He believed that people who failed to follow the general will of the state…. “for their own good must be forced to be free.”  He wrote…..” the basis of popular government in time of revolution is both virtue and terror.  Terror without virtue is murderous, virtue without terror is powerless.  Terror is nothing else then swift, and severe justice which flows from our virtue. “  But, whose virtue?  This same incantation is found in subsequent revolutions……Lenin , Stalin Mao, Hitler, Castro et al.   Look today at many of the Latin American countries to see why thousands are escaping and coming to our borders.

I pray that all of us remember the values and dignity offered under the Constitution of our great Republic.     Yes, our Republic was founded on Christian principles regardless of the screams and shouts of those who deny it.  Our pledge states it best…..”One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.”