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    The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America

    The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America is a review of Zbigniew Janowski's Homo Americanus. The reviewer encamps Janowski with "dissident rightists, from old-school Chronicles paleoconservatives, to European identitarians, to Catholic traditionalists. ...following in the footsteps of Southern agrarian professor Mel Bradford, who warned us several decades ago about 'the heresy of Equality.'"

    For like Professor Bradford, Dr. Janowski sees an egalitarian fixation lying at the heart of modern America’s pathologies:

    Most people who participate in pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-transgendered, anti-racist, protests are neither gay nor transgendered nor black; nor have most of them had abortions, or even the attributes that presuppose such a choice, and they are usually young. The question arises: Why do they participate in rallies that quite often, make them behave as if they lost their minds, or as if they saw the second coming of Christ? The answer is that they unleash their neurotic frustration, not because any specific decision limiting their freedom has been made, but because they believe that as long as there is still someone, somewhere, who refuses to believe without reservation in the idea of equality, their dream of a perfect egalitarian utopia is in danger.

    What all those who have been “canceled” have in common, continues Janowski, is “a lack of unconditional commitment to equality. Any remark – however sound or factual – that questions equality meets with condemnation, rage, and hysteria.” The preceding insight alone makes Homo Americanus a noteworthy book.
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    As I see it that is all true
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    Think when the left accuses the right of being against and threatening democracy what they really mean is the anointed vision of equality (equity).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Think when the left accuses the right of being against and threatening democracy what they really mean is the anointed vision of equality (equity).
    Don't forget that the Constitutional limits on Government are to protect the rights of the individual. This gets in the way of forced equity and group rights.

    What they are after is a WOKE majority that can invent and vote into power special rights for specified favored groups (classes) of people, forced equity if you will. The more recent use (abuse) of the term equity is to imply equal outcomes not opportunity. Without equality of outcome they start screaming about being oppressed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Don't forget that the Constitutional limits on Government are to protect the rights of the individual. This gets in the way of forced equity and group rights.

    What they are after is a WOKE majority that can invent and vote into power special rights for specified favored groups (classes) of people, forced equity if you will. The more recent use (abuse) of the term equity is to imply equal outcomes not opportunity. Without equality of outcome they start screaming about being oppressed.

    The nation is also founded on the belief all men were created equal. That I think derives from being created equal before the Creator, so implies being equal before the law. It doesn't mean the government should try to make people equal in society, as we're all different. And it certainly doesn't mean, as Woke Democrats seem to think, we should treat people differently before the law.
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