While the French were fighting for what turned out to be a false equality through government control, Americans were fighting to obtain and hold on to unrestricted opportunity and freedom from government control
To today’s liberal leftists, equality means taking from those who have abundance and transferring it to those in lack. But it fails to factor in the economic consequences of this transfer of wealth. The abundance they are drawing from begins to shrink as economic development is stifled by government policies.
Communism and socialism promise equality but bring equality of poverty except for a privileged government bureaucracy and their crony business bureaucrats. Government policies and directives take precedence over economic development. The only way there can be economic development under these types of government is for a certain amount of free enterprise capitalism to be at work.