This is bad. American Exceptionalism was based on individual freedom and equal OPPORTUNITY for all. Converting to a country of equal OUTCOME will ruin our country and everyone will have less. It is only by letting the most capable thrive through meritocracy that we can grow and thrive providing the abundant returns that allow redistribution to those less fortunate.
Through his recent Executive order Biden is trying to change our country from one of equal opportunity into one of equal outcomes. He has directed all of the federal government to start to focus on Delivering Equitable Outcomes Through Government Policies, Programs, and Activities by forming teams within each agency to use the agency’s policy, budgetary, programmatic, service-delivery, procurement, data-collection processes, grantmaking, public engagement, research and evaluation, and regulatory functions to enable the agency’s mission and service delivery to yield equitable outcomes for all Americans
Focusing on equal outcomes when there is such a natural variation in individual capabilities will hurt America by limiting say 80% of the most capable people to insure their outcome is the same as the 20% less capable.
Examples of this are the trend to eliminate AP classes, limiting Asian admissions to top universities, limiting debt relief to non-white farmers and offering cash free bail that’s leading to more crime.
