A crucial idea from natural law theory is that government places the lightest burden of compulsion on its citizens when the law conforms to nature - science, reality, the physical world. A great deal of coercion is required to force people to ignore or deny reality.
The Left also understands this insight, but runs in the exact opposite direction with it. Much of the left-wing agenda is crafted to defy nature, precisely because the Left sees enormous power can be mined from creating systems of compulsion that force people to deny reality.
The more radical the denial of nature - the larger the share of normal people who must be indoctrinated, re-educated, and punished to enforce the agenda of a few - the better. It's a philosophy designed to erode liberty, leading inevitably to totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
Totalitarianism, because everything becomes politicized, and enforcing unnatural law means the public must be bombarded with ideological messages at every turn. There can be no escape from the programming required to make people denounce common sense and observable reality.
Authoritarianism, because the Left's agenda is elitist by definition - designed by a few superior Anointed Ones and imposed upon the many by increasing levels of coercive force. Unnatural law means vast power, and power always concentrates in the hands of a few.
Reality cannot be altered by political will. It remains, and ever-greater levels of violent force are required to subdue it, when its head pokes above the sea of ideology. It is a never-ending spiral that eventually fuses totalitarianism and authoritarianism into fascism.
Fascism, because the enumerated powers of the State are never sufficient to cudgel the population into compliance with extremist ideology, especially with a pesky Constitution in the way. Private entities must be conscripted, so there is no escape for dissenting minds.
Nature is often cruel and unfair, as any rabbit could tell you. There is a great difference between writing law that conforms with a clear understanding of nature, but also respects human aspirations and compassion - and laws that force people to accept ideology instead of truth.
Those acknowledgements of inalienable rights and self-evident truths in America's founding documents signaled an understanding that liberty could only flourish in harmony with nature, and that war against Nature would inevitably degenerate into war against Man. /end
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