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All Men Are NOT Created Equal!

The cornerstone of American democracy, the premise that all men are created equal, is a blatant lie. Let’s set aside for the moment that America has been shamefully slow in living up to the proposition that all men should be TREATED EQUALLY under the law. The assertion posited in the U.S. Declaration of Independence that we are “all created equal” is utter nonsense. This should be immediately obvious to anyone.

Use any yardstick you want - raw intelligence, creativity, strength, endurance, specialized athletic prowess, height, beauty, singing ability, balance, wisdom, integrity, diligence, poise, courage or tolerance - we are all different. We are most certainly NOT at all created as equals.

Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist but would have made a pathetic comedian. Andy Kaufman, widely considered to have been a comic genius, could never have come up with the Law of General Relativity. George F. Will is an articulate and incisive political commentator, but he could not be expected to survive 10 seconds in the ring with Mike Tyson, a fearsome man who could beat the snot out of (almost) anyone but who is an inarticulate beast wholly lacking in political or historical insight. No amount of rigorous training could have ever transformed Danny DeVito into the equal of Michael Jordan on the basketball court.

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But why should our alleged equality matter to anyone anyway? The premise of equal treatment under the law does not require that the members of the populace actually be equal by any measure of raw talent or accomplishment.

With continued hard work, commitment (and a different president), I believe that America will continue to inch closer to its goal of equal treatment for all under the law. But, please, spare me the empty headed political canard about all people being equal.

It’s simply not true.