How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro

Thus, Obama, in the same second inaugural speech in which he cited the Declaration of Independence, turned the phrase “all men are created equal” on its head, citing innate human equality as a rationale for pursuing equality of outcome.6 In this, Obama was following in the footsteps of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who stated, “We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result. . . . To this end equal opportunity is essential, but not enough, not enough.”7 In reality, of course, nobody in the United States or anywhere on earth has “the same chance to succeed,” because we are all born into different circumstances, with different qualities and different hardships; true equality of opportunity would require a nightmarish invasion of rights. But the reshaping of the founding ideal of equality of rights into justification for neo-Marxist policies is both attractive and clever.