Freedom or equality: the choice is ours. The aristocrats are out of the closet about their entitlement.

… for the past several decades, conservatives and other champions of the privileged have sternly denied that they are snobs who oppose economic equity out of the conviction that some people — they and theirs — are inherently superior to the masses.

Only the late Ayn Rand openly proclaimed that life was a “struggle between the genius and the parasite,” and that public policy should favor the innately superior genius. Other conservatives, even those who fell under her influence (Alan Greenspan, for one), insisted that they were as devoted as anyone to the proposition that down deep, everybody is jes’ folks.

No more. Emboldened by recent success, some right-wing scholars have openly declared that those who do better are better. In his book The Virtues of Prosperity, conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza argues that, “The guy who is worth little has probably produced little of value. By the same token, the guy who’s earning twice as much as you is most likely — perish the thought — twice as good as you are.” Orlando Sentinel