Such scales of equity can only be balanced by force. One is organic, the other a product of social engineering because it commands equality of outcome. As we have pointed out on the pages of Liberty Nation, equity is entirely distinct from equality. Our shrinking reverence for individual liberty – the cornerstone of the Constitution – is most cleverly and toxically manifested in demands for “equity.” That word sounds good, but in fact, is starkly at odds with what America has always been: an opportunity society. But what if that foe is … ourselves? Equity and Equality are Not Equal Perhaps, in our eternal vigilance, girding for one external foe or another against which we must “assure the survival and success of liberty,” we have simply assumed that such foes would come from the outside. Having been so relentlessly schooled in the flaws and inequities of this constitutional republic, how many of them are right now willing to go to war against a theoretical enemy with the means, motive, and opportunity to destroy us, in order to defend the same Constitution to which the president and all public officials swear their allegiance? Many would not care to hear the likely answer to that one either.Īt the same time, how many among the rising generations would willingly limit the most basic guarantee in the first amendment – freedom of speech? Scattered surveys over these last years have met with a universally disturbing response, laced with a prevailing preference for socialist-inspired exceptions in the case of broadly defined “hate speech.” And this is but the tip of the anti-liberty iceberg. Young Americans are indoctrinated into the socialist worldview early and thoroughly, these days, through their two chief sources of information educational institutions and big media. Instead, it has evolved from the magnum opus of America to a question – one of metaphysical significance, with a distressingly uncertain answer.

But it lands upon this present generation no longer as the statement of shared principles that held the country together through thick and thin for two and a half centuries. Are Americans still willing to pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, and oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty? That stirring inaugural covenant from President John F.

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