Private property rights were surrendered the moment we accepted the first exceptions.
The government taxes what you own and it seizes it through eminent domain whenever officials decide your land serves a “higher purpose.”
And the instant we treated those takings as legitimate, property stopped being a right the state exists to protect and became a privilege the state grants and can revoke at will.
The truth is governments have always confiscated more wealth through taxation, regulation, and legal plunder than private thieves could ever manage.
But that’s not even the core problem.
The deeper issue is what happens when rights cease to be sacred boundaries and become subject to majority vote.
If 51% can vote to rob the 49%, nothing in principle stops them from voting to do worse.
They can authorize killing, torture, enslavement, or any other violation and call it legitimate because “democracy.”
And no, that’s not a slippery slope. It’s the logical endpoint and the consistent application of treating rights as collective permissions rather than individual moral claims that no majority may override.
America was founded on the opposite moral premise that natural rights were understood as existing prior to government and independent of popular approval.
They were the fixed limit on power, not up for negotiation.
Every exception we normalized since then has eaten away at that foundation. And the result is exactly what the founders warned against, and that’s a system in which rights are whatever the majority, the bureaucracy, or the latest coalition decides they should be.
But rights do not come from society and they do not bend to majority will.
They supersede it.
The laws, institutions, and precedents that turned them into revocable privileges must be repealed and dismantled.
Anything less leaves us as subjects to a tyranny more total and arbitrary than anything history has yet produced.
Bigotry is as ugly as ugly gets….Why is it that those who harbor it, regardless of color, always feel that hatred is cool?
Talk about a league that’s blowing it BIG TIME!!!
@RealMattCouch Matt, the guy has been with fat mumu, horse-faced Karen for God knows how long. He hasn’t been able to think for himself for decades. Clearly Karen completely owns and controls him. Wonder when the last time he got laid was?
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
Bingo. This is precisely why I have explained that the engineering and business schools are less likely to be parasitized by dreadful ideas because reality serves as an auto-corrective feedback loop.
Dear America,
We’re more than bourbon trails, Derby racing and Corvettes.
We are the Kentuckians who got rid of Mitch and Massie.
You’re welcome,
Kentuckians 🙌🏽
From our country’s beginning, for as long as America has embodied freedom and exceptionalism, the soul of our nation has been rooted in the Christian faith.
Today we gather, as our forefathers did on this day centuries ago, to rededicate our nation to God.