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I’ve often wondered what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution would have looked like if our Founding Fathers believed in the false god of Collectivism. While many believe that collectivism is a good thing—either because they confuse it with the notion of community or simply believe individuals don’t have rights—our founding fathers probably understood the danger and potential for disaster placing primary importance on groups instead of individuals. Just as racism is an ugly form of collectivism because it places a value judgment upon an individual without even knowing an individual, so are other forms of collectivism a valueless way of viewing human beings.
But I digress. Recently I thought of how the Declaration of Independence would have been written had our Founding Fathers been obsessed with Collectivism:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men deserve equal outcomes, that they are endowed by their Government with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and other people’s property.
One might call it a Declaration of Dependence.
