Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Program of Cultural Sabotage
By Ronald P. Bouchard Jr.
What began as a call for fairness has become a tool of destruction. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, DEI, is not a unifying force. It is a destructive force that targets the natural and constitutional order of America.
We are told DEI is about compassion and representation. In truth, it is a doctrine built to dismantle authority, defy reason, and erase the very culture that made this country free. It masquerades as virtue while functioning as an invasive force, backed by government, protected by institutions, and funded by the people it aims to displace.
The Rule of Law and the Moral Collapse of DEI
The Rule of Law is that it is fixed, unchanging, and binding upon all persons and institutions. It stands above the will of men and is not dictated by statutes, case law, regulations, or bureaucratic policy. It is rooted in enduring legal principles and constitutional maxims, truths that transcend the shifting preferences of legislatures, judges, officials, or even the people themselves.
Maxim of Law 20e: “There are two instruments for confirming or impugning all things, reason and authority.” (8 Coke, 16)
Natural law is the supreme authority from which all rightful government flows. As Emer de Vattel wrote in The Law of Nations, the duty of a state is to improve itself and preserve moral order, not to sow confusion or undermine it.
The Massachusetts Constitution, Part the First, Article III, affirms that the happiness of the people and the preservation of civil government depend upon piety, religion, and morality, virtues that must be cultivated through public worship and instruction. The people are empowered to require their legislature to promote these truths, especially where they are not upheld voluntarily.
The purpose of government is simple: to secure the rights of the people, their lives, liberty, and property, not to redefine truth or reshape human nature.
DEI, by contrast, assumes the role of moral authority without any moral foundation. It replaces eternal truth with identity politics, individual rights with group entitlements, and lawful governance with ideological enforcement.
It dismantles the true foundation of the Republic, trading piety for power, reason for grievance, and the common good for manufactured division.
Maxim of Law 51n. “All political power is inherent in the people by decree of God thus, none can exist except it be derived from them. (American Maxim)
DEI is not derived from the people. It is imposed. It is not the result of consent, but rather of coercion. It has no place in a nation governed by reason and lawful authority.
In America, morality was never meant to come by decree, but through piety and principled instruction. As the Constitution makes clear, the people have the right, and duty, to maintain those institutions that uphold moral order.
DEI discards all of this. It declares morality a construct of identity. It teaches that words are violence and that using violence to promote ideology is virtuous. It inverts law and calls it justice.
Maxim of Law 74j. “Positive laws are framed after the laws of nature and reason.” (Finch, Law. 74)
DEI is framed after neither. Emotion is its foundation, coercion enforces it, and truth is its enemy.
The Assault on Culture
DEI is not inclusive; it is selective. It targets and excludes white Americans, particularly those rooted in the Christian, European heritage that shaped this nation. The very culture that founded the country is now framed as a barrier to progress.
But America is a white, Western, Christian culture by origin. That is not an opinion; it is a historical fact. To come to this country has always meant, culturally, to assimilate into the American framework, not to subvert it. As Charles Weisman stated, “You might hate the white culture, but you’re supposed to assimilate into it, not overthrow it.”
To weaponize DEI against that heritage is to attack the very foundation upon which all others stand. The alternative is not inclusion; it is inversion. It is a moral revolution cloaked in the language of equity.
You cannot build a nation on certain principles and then condemn those who established them. That is not justice; it is erasure.
America’s culture—Western, Christian, and orderly—is what made freedom, tolerance, and justice possible. To exclude the founding culture is to dismantle the very structure that preserved those ideals.
The Collapse of Knowledge and the Invitation to Tyranny
None of these scenarios would be possible if the people still knew who they were. But they don’t. They’ve been severed from their roots, cut off from the very inheritance that once made them free. They no longer know the common law. They’ve never been taught the maxims of liberty. They don’t know that their rights come from God, not from government. They don’t know that the government is their servant, and they, the people, are the masters.
Instead, they are fed a counterfeit history, one of guilt, grievance, and endless shame. They’re told America is nothing more than a system of oppression, its founding nothing but a lie. They are denied the moral architecture that gave rise to the freest, most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. They do not learn that liberty is a rare gem. Nobody warns them about the consequences of losing liberty.
Thomas Paine once wrote, “The cause of America is the cause of all mankind.” But that cause has now been buried under manufactured grievance, historical distortion, and engineered ignorance.
And the most dangerous part of DEI is not what it says, but what it hides.
It never warns what happens when nations trade liberty for ideology. It never mentions the blood-soaked legacy of communism, the starvation of collectivism, or the surveillance and silencing of totalitarian regimes. It never shows the wreckage left behind by those who promised equality and delivered only chains.
In its silence, DEI extends an invitation to tyranny.
America broke those chains once. It unleashed the individual. It created the space for men to think, to speak, to build, to worship, and to thrive. The result was a 5,000-year leap in invention, prosperity, and culture. It was not due to collectivism; rather, it was because liberty, under God, became the organizing principle of society.
DEI doesn’t just rewrite history; it endangers the future. It prepares the mind for submission and the heart for silence. It doesn’t want to build a better society. It wants to build a cage around you, quietly, piece by piece, until the lock snaps shut and the key is gone.
America Was Not Born Perfect; It Was Born Into a Broken World
Critics say, “America had slavery,” as if that alone nullifies its founding and delegitimizes every principle upon which it stands. But this claim, often made in moral outrage, is based on historical amnesia and used to divide.
America did not create slavery. Slavery was already entrenched across the globe, in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. It was practiced by virtually every civilization for thousands of years before the idea of the United States even existed. In a broken world, slavery was the norm, not the exception.
Not only did America inherit slavery, but it also established the fundamental principles that would eventually lead to its abolition. The Declaration of Independence boldly proclaimed that “all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Those words shattered the moral framework of tyranny and laid the foundation for the greatest expansion of liberty in human history.
Even more telling is what was originally included in that Declaration and what was later removed for political reasons. Thomas Jefferson’s draft included a 28th grievance against King George III that directly condemned the slave trade:
“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.”
The message was not a vague critique. It was a direct moral condemnation of slavery and those who profited from it. That grievance was struck from the final draft, not because it was untrue, but because several Southern colonies refused to sign a document that criticized the very institution their economies depended on. Jefferson was furious, but the principle remained. And once that principle was spoken, it could never be buried.
The Founders cultivated the seeds of abolition while grappling with the inherited evils. The moral arc of the nation, however flawed and uneven, was always bent toward liberty.
Yet today, slavery is no longer taught to illuminate or instruct; it is weaponized to indict. It is used not to promote unity, but to sow division. It is manipulated to paint America as uniquely evil, rather than uniquely capable of moral self-correction.
The goal is not to understand history; it is to erase it.
But America’s story is not one of perfection; it is one of purpose. It is not flawless, but it is founded on eternal truths that no other nation dared to declare.
We must reject the lie that slavery defines America. What defines this nation is that it rose up in a world where slavery was normal and declared it wrong. It fought to remove it from the world, not just its soil, through war, repentance, and perseverance.
No country in history has done more to abolish slavery or promote the dignity of man. That is not something to be ashamed of. That is something to be preserved.
Conclusion: A Call to Return: Reclaiming America’s Moral and Lawful Foundation
DEI is not compassion. It is cultural conquest. It violates authority, defies reason, erases history, and punishes truth.
But we are not helpless. We are heirs to a republic built on something greater than slogans. We are the stewards of a nation rooted in natural law, protected by reason, and consecrated to God.
The time has come to return. To truth. To conscience. To order.
Let the song not be a lament but a declaration. Let the people rise again, not to reinvent the nation, but to remember it. The goal should not be to destroy but to restore.
Because freedom is not a feeling, it is a duty.
About the Author:
Ron Bouchard is a Strategic Interventionist, Freedom Strategist, and leading expert in Constitutional and Fundamental Law. He is a dynamic speaker, trainer, and author, and co-founder of WeThePeople2.us, where he advances public education on history, common law, and the restoration of self-governance. Ron is known for his principled advocacy, deep historical insight, and unwavering commitment to natural rights and the sanctity of life. His work equips others with lawful and moral clarity in the face of modern overreach.