How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro

Now, this argument can cut in favor of discrimination both in favor of and against various groups. In its earliest form, it cut in favor of disparate legal treatment against those considered unequal. Ardent advocates of slavery posited that innate human inequality provided a rationale for disparate treatment of human beings. John C. Calhoun, the firebrand senator, secretary of state, secretary of war, and two-time vice president, routinely disparaged the Declaration of Independence, infamously explaining on June 27, 1848, that its key proposition, that “all men are created equal,” was patently false and superfluous: “[This proposition] was inserted in our Declaration of Independence without any necessity. It made no part of our justification in separating from the parent country.” Calhoun described that key proposition at the heart of Americanism as a dangerous error. He stated that human beings were not free or independent, but restricted by government and socially defined. Slavery, therefore, was justified by the “debased” nature of some and the “virtue” of others. Liberty of individuals, Calhoun argued, “instead of being equal in all cases, must necessarily be very unequal among different peoples, according to their different conditions.”43

Disparity is discrimination has become a Disintegrationist article of faith. And heretics will be punished.

Social fabric—duty to one another—was to be provided by social institutions. Government was designed to protect individuals in their rights. Rights without duties devolve into chaos. Duties without rights devolve into tyranny. Rights and duties were, in the founding view, utterly inseparable. That balance of rights, protected by a virtuous citizenry steeped in dutiful thinking and action, was the goal of the founding fathers.

Initially, because America failed to uphold the proper, universal applications of natural rights under the Declaration of Independence, the classes of people targeted for gun removal were blacks and Native Americans.23

Most of us in the West now live in so-called mixed economies—free-market economies with central planning programs stacked atop them. It’s easy to mistake the redistributive gains generated by central planning with the underlying prosperity to be redistributed. But that distinction is both critical and true. There is a reason that while Bernie Sanders has called Denmark his ideal socialist country, the Danish prime minister told Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2015, “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy. The Nordic model is an expanded welfare state which provides a high level of security for its citizens, but it is also a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish.”32 Denmark is annually ranked above the United States in the Heritage Foundation index of economic freedom.33