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// Common Values for Common Ponies 
// Story: This I Believe 
// by The Collab Cage 
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Who says that the only way to bring down establishments is through chaos and destruction? While I’ve never quite liked government, or the ponies that I associate with, I do believe that I provide an essential service to my cause. If we are going to provide true liberation for all ponies, we must first bring down those who restrict those beneath them.

I don’t really fault my contemporaries though. They have their hearts in the right place. Bring down the government, establish a rule of the ponies where all are truly equal before them, I think perhaps they are going around it in the wrong way. Picketing, riots. Those are only temporary measures, while the majority of the country thinks that we are a radical extremist group. The real way to bring equality is to all is to strike the aristocracy at their heart, sway their minds to be sympathetic with our cause so that they can be used as an asset, an ally rather than an opponent.

I often go through the streets of Canterlot, looking at the beggars and other homeless ponies. My heart cries for them, for justice. It is the establishment that causes this poverty, a system that takes from those with little and gives to those with too much. I was convinced the moment I picked up a book written by Stal Marx. His views on how government were radical, but revolutionary. A place where all ponies are created equal, paid the same, work the same, with nopony over any other.

I have already been in a similar situation, so I know this can work. My job, orchestra player, is set up in the same way. And if they hadn’t treated all appliers equally I would have been shunted back out onto the streets again. But I needed to convince the aristocracy, or at least those who had influence, to help me and my group’s cause. A common government allowing for all ponies to be equal. Only then, could those ponies on the streets be helped.

Because if you look at it objectively, there is only one true way to look at things. Whether they're an earth pony, pegasus, unicorn, or alicorn, they’re all ponies. They all deserve to be treated equally, no matter who their parents were or where they are in the government. Equal wages, equal living arrangements, equal society. That is my dream, and I will never give up on it.