Quote:This user comment from the article FBT posted was interesting to me and, I think, definitely shows the difference between how conservatives and liberals define equality. I don't have an issue with 'social equality' when it comes to basic human rights because that's the way it should be, but forcing me to see something as equal just because a certain group (and I mean any group) says that's what I'm to believe.....that's a no-go. I will not be cowed into group think. If I believe something it's because I choose to, not because someone forced me to. 

 

When we talk about equality in the American (conservative) sense, we're talking about equal rights and equal protection under the law. That we are all equal in the eyes of the creator and endowed with inalienable rights to life and liberty. This is a noble and just pursuit.


 

When the left talks about equality, they're talking about a social equality enforced by a powerful state, in order to ensure that the subjects of that state become neither too poor nor too rich, and that redistributive action is employed in order to help facilitate this goal. The redistributive model has recently been expanded beyond economics to include the currency of 'feelings' and 'beliefs' that are perceived to disenfranchise one group in favor of another, in order to further regulate social 'equality' as they see it. It is a nefarious and invariably fascistic ideology, because it requires an overclass of elites to engineer society into their vision of perfection.

 

That really is it in a nutshell. 

 

Things have gotten muddled up by the progressives in both parties who are more focused on maintaining power than doing what needs to be done to lead this nation, but at the end of the day, that is the main difference between true conservatives and true progressives.  Not the jelly spined people in the middle who don't dare take a side.

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