Why are leftists so obsessed with equal outcomes?

The conservative belief that liberals want wealth equality is a self-induced hallucination. Liberals want a true equality of opportunity.

The conservative philosophy of government was best stated by President Coolidge: “The chief business of the American people is business.” He was wrong. The business of our nation is exactly and only that found in the preamble to our Constitution: “to... promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Times change but the Founding Liberals can’t change with them. They wrote what they wrote, and the most important word in the preamble to the Constitution is “Posterity”. The Founding Liberals understood why we are here on Earth: survival of the species is the motivating force of life.

A nation without a thriving young generation faces its doom. Care of the young is the highest priority of all the creatures on earth - except Conservatives. Care of our young must not end at birth. Post-natal care must also be the highest priority of federal, state, and local government.

Government must provide children with health care, education, and homes in a secure neighborhood. Children, from conception through university, must get all the health care, food, shelter, and play they need and as much education as they can absorb. Care of the young is a civilization’s wisest investment.

A thriving young generation must include all children regardless of the wealth or poverty of their homes. Providing excellent care only for children of the rich will not produce enough brilliant leaders in technology, industry, and government. If you want all the cream, you have to milk all the cows. (Ninety-nine percent of all discoveries are found by one percent of all scientists.) A level playing field and equal opportunity from the moment of conception are the liberal’s core beliefs.

The health, education, and shelter of the young are more important than the leisure activity of the rich. Tax the tax havens! Eliminate tax-free municipal bonds and loop-holes for hedge-fund managers and their money-changing brethren in the temple!

Support for children by local taxes inevitably results in deprived areas, from Watts to Mississippi. To be equitably distributed, care of the young must be financed by progressive federal taxation. Commensurate with their means, all Americans, together as one, must share the load. Fairness and cooperation are the liberal’s core beliefs.

Conservatives hold the opposite view. They believe children should be rewarded or punished depending on how well or how poorly they choose their parents. They want the care of the young to be financed by local taxes so that school quality varies with class and so that science education is stunted by fundamentalist school boards. Is it a wonder that, according to the National Academy of Sciences report, while half of GDP growth depends on technology, the US is rated 48th in science and math education?

Instead of taxing wealthy estates, consisting mostly of untaxed capital gains and municipal bond interest, conservatives would endow the least productive segment of society: children of the rich. Since Congress can be bought, wealth is power and inherited wealth is inherited power, aristocracy, the exact opposite of democracy, the exact opposite of meritocracy. This is dishonesty and corruption. Conservatism is a crime against Nature.

The human race succeeded only because evolution gave it enough intelligence to understand the value of community: the solidarity of the clan, the tribe, and larger groups that does not exist among other primates. We succeeded only because we took care of each other through fire and flood.

Conservatives want to destroy that social solidarity. While the economic burden of disease far exceeds that of weather, does it make sense that we help communities struck by a tornado but not individuals struck by cancer? Now, Conservatives want to defund FEMA! Come hell or high water, you're on your own! Conservatism is a crime against Nature.

Conservatives believe the tax burden should be shifted from the rich to the middle class, from capital to labor. They would create a polarized generation: a small aristocracy and a large underclass — a lost generation. Conservatism is a complete betrayal of Posterity and the Founding Liberals.

I think equal opportunity is something we can achieve, but people have different gifts and abilities so we all won't have the same things at the end. It's like a race. We all start at the same time but some win, some lose, and some don't even bother trying. It's stupid to try to make sure everyone finishes at the same time. I don't know if Democrats really want this or they want people to think they want it, so they will vote for them. All I know is that it doesn't work.

We don't necessarily want everything to be equal (well, I do, but that's another matter); we want people wondering where their next meal is coming from to be able to eat, have a home, and enjoy life without having to worry. The rich can still have a very high standard of living, and people who previously had a hard time can now have basic human needs. There's no way that's morally correct. By the way, we worry for everyone else because we're not self-absorbed.

No equal opportunity and equality before the law, they're not exclusive. It's not a particularly liberal thing. I don't understand why anyone would be against tht.

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Well, no, it's never going to be perfect, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't try in some measure. It helps everyone if it's a meritocracy rather than just an oligarchy- history always shows that also leads to dictatorship, look at Rome...

equivalent possibilities, for specific. the only time while it ever makes any experience to have affirmative action form courses is once you're attempting to grant human beings equivalent possibilities yet no longer getting any cooperation. Eg. If 50% of the qualified applicants to the police rigidity have been non-white, yet a technique or the different a hundred% of the hot hires have been white even inspite of the undeniable fact that the persons doing the hiring weren't meant to be discriminating, slapping a quota on them may be the only thank you to point the taking part in container. What i do no longer accept as true with is this form of difficulty my ex stated he confronted while utilising for the police branch, the place white adult males had a pair of a million in a hundred danger of being employed, mutually as women and minorities purely had to compete with a handfull of persons by way of fact the demographics of the applicant pool did no longer tournament the hiring quotas.

It isn't about equal income for every American. It is about the equal opportunity/chance to get successful by working hard. If you honestly believe that those CEOs and corporate officials on Wall Street got successful by working hard you're kidding yourself. Sure some did, but a lot of them didn't. A lot of people just inherit their money and have connections to pull strings to get positions they want. Inside trading and making money before the middle class by enslaving them. Putting officials in power to pass laws that will benefit them. If you make less than 250,000 a year and you're a conservative for economic reasons, you're a moron. There is no getting around that.

you are right that the state can not create equal opportunity , how ever it does give you the right to try for it and defend your rights to that and all your rights-and every bodies rights too, nobody grows up saying they want to be dirt poor, they have the right to reach for the stars just like you . and the govt. has to change with the times to give us the rights we hold so dear

Thank you, at least someone is alive. I guess obama is going try this crap again. This has failed all over the world. I cant imagine 4 more years of re-distribution...

Because leftists want America to become a socialist country

this is a ridiculous question. What law are you referring to by the way?