I Pledge Alligance...

The question, “Are all people created equal?” can be twisted into several different meanings and debates. You could argue that we are born equal, but as life passes on, that equality starts to deteriorate or if any physical differences or even social statuses make a difference. This question I think actually poses many different sub-questions, which should to be taken into careful consideration.
In the question itself, they use a very distinct word that I find intriguing, and that is “created.” All men (and women) are “created” equal. This word can also mean born of to bring to existence. So it is implied that you have equal rights when you are born. The question that is brought up from this is do we keep that freedom as we continue to live out our lives, or is it stripped away from us. First of all, I think that yes, we are all born created with equal rights. We might have the same “fortunes” or opportunities as each other, but we all have the same rights as another. Equality can be warped and twisted in different ways. Equality can mean your rights or your wealth, attributes, and other features/ characteristics. I think we are all born differently, and we are definitely are different and unique from one another, but we all share one big thing, our rights (American wise, sorry North Koreans, I got nothing for you.)
Is our equality stripped away from us as we continue to live our lives? Many people do think so and try to solve this problem with different solutions, such as protesting, starting clans, etc. I think that you are still created equal and it sticks with you for as long as you exist, but other people are probably going to try and take your rights away from you, or make you think you don’t have any. You still have those equal rights, but it just feel or seem like it.
This is also another reason why some people might not believe that they have these inalienable rights and liberties is because of other people getting in the way and trying to knock you down. There are two sides to today’s congress, Democrat and Republican, which really don’t have many differences at all, but they just beat the living crap out of the differences they do have and keep blowing them out of proportion that it seems as if you are trying to choose between heaven and hell. Because of this, people are constantly being ridiculed and possibly banished from their social group just because of what they believe in, and the freedom of free speech and free thinking is one of those inalienable rights that people posses which is constantly overlooked upon. We just keep beating and beating each party up and we become more and more farther apart. Eventually, I think we might even have a civil war on our hands if we don’t realize what kind of nation we are creating from this. Many of the constitutional rights are being downsized and exploited because of one another taking a side. We need to ban together and help one another to become an even greater nation.