Dying Democracy: The core values of personal freedom and equality have been narrowed to the point that they are now vices

Democracy: Dying From Within?

BY FRANK CRONIN

Personal freedom has become an insistent, incessant individualism

Our declining democracy seems to be dying a slow, certain death. And this death comes not from outside threats and circumstance. It is degenerating from within, dying from the inside out. And the causes are many. Oddly, two of the primary causes are two of democracy’s core values: personal freedom and equality.

Even though our nation was “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” our democracy declines for these very reasons. It declines because many of our present political and cultural leaders see the principles of individual freedom and equality so narrowly and childishly that these noble virtues have become vices.

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