Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

[cnm]

Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

Wow. I've seen more of the thread. Kudos on the bait...

 

[SeaMajor7]

The belief in individualism is fake news. It's just that simple. Nobody has achieved anything by themselves. Ever.

Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

There are many reasons why our democracy, and democracy around the world, are in peril, but I want to focus today on one specific aspect that is close to uniquely applicable to the United States: our worship of individualism.

I was moved to this thought by this morning’s Letter from an American by the eminent historian Heather Cox Richardson: January 5, 2025 (OK, late last night’s). She was writing about letters left behind by Green Beret Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger before he blew up his Tesla outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas:

Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

There are many reasons why our democracy, and democracy around the world, are in peril, but I want to focus today on one specific aspect that is close to uniquely applicable to the United States: our worship of individualism. I was moved to this...

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We VOTED against your Marxist COLLECTIVISM.
I suggest you SWIM TO CUBA for your COMMUNIST UTOPIA!!!!

 

[the watcher]

Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

Diametrically opposing your state guided individualism.

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

I see someone is still pissed his candidate lost the election.

 

[jc456]

It's just simplistic, shallow, binary thinking.

Nuance and complexity anger MAGA. There is no in-between or gray area on anything, because addressing in-between or gray areas requires curiosity and intellectual elasticity.

So we're going down this all-or-nothing, Good vs. Evil (they're supposed to be the "Good", by the way) road for a while. It is what it is. We'll see what remains after that.

Complexity such as?

 

[IM2]

IM2 is just a troll who likes to see people get upset. Just ignore the fool. He is probably some pasty, lazy white kid living in his mommy's basement, dreaming of a Communist Utopia.

Why do you racists imagine that no one black feels like I do about this country? 99 percent of the blacks living here would say the same things. Actually, I'm a lot kinder than many other blacks about this bs. I'm black, own my home, and I am speaking the truth. No one has ever done shit by themselves.

 

[IM2]

Diametrically opposing your state guided individualism.

State guided "individualism" has done wonders for whites in this country.

 

[martybegan]

IM2 is just a troll who likes to see people get upset. Just ignore the fool. He is probably some pasty, lazy white kid living in his mommy's basement, dreaming of a Communist Utopia.

 

[IM2]

Pure Unadulterated BULLSHIT

The one thing that is killing the American CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC is the COLLECTIVISM adopted by the so-called progressives in 1913 and its reinforcement in government schools . Two planks from the communist Manufesto were enacted then

1- the heavy GRADUATED income tax and
2- the Federal Reserve Board

A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto - LewRockwell

Partially Educated The Communist Manifesto is one of those documents I was aware of, but had never taken the time to actually read. As a woefully undereducated product of the public education system, I somehow managed to slip by the class that required reading of the old Marx and Engels classic...

www.lewrockwell.com

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Collectivism started when the Constitution was ratified in 1787. Whites such as yourself have deluded themselves into not seeing that whites have always acted as a collective.

 

[TNHarley]

The belief in individualism is fake news. It's just that simple. Nobody has achieved anything by themselves. Ever.

Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

There are many reasons why our democracy, and democracy around the world, are in peril, but I want to focus today on one specific aspect that is close to uniquely applicable to the United States: our worship of individualism.

I was moved to this thought by this morning’s Letter from an American by the eminent historian Heather Cox Richardson: January 5, 2025 (OK, late last night’s). She was writing about letters left behind by Green Beret Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger before he blew up his Tesla outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas:

Misguided Individualism is Destroying American Democracy

There are many reasons why our democracy, and democracy around the world, are in peril, but I want to focus today on one specific aspect that is close to uniquely applicable to the United States: our worship of individualism. I was moved to this...

www.dailykos.com

Individualism is actual progress, you Marxist ****.

 

[TNHarley]

This whack ass white dude complains about government actions daily. ALL THE FREAKING TIME. yet he worships one.
The stupidity of normal people blows my ******* mind.

 

[jc456]

Why do you racists imagine that no one black feels like I do about this country? 99 percent of the blacks living here would say the same things. Actually, I'm a lot kinder than many other blacks about this bs. I'm black, own my home, and I am speaking the truth. No one has ever done shit by themselves.

the racist in this previous post is quite racist.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

A paid troll at that.

Very few democrat posters aren't.

Soon, AI will find who takes money from America's enemies to post their propaganda

Nuremberg 2.0 is near

 

[Contumacious]

Collectivism started when the Constitution was ratified in 1787. Whites such as yourself have deluded themselves into not seeing that whites have always acted as a collective.

HUH?​

“Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”​

― Ayn Rand

A quote by Ayn Rand

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be ch...

www.goodreads.com

 

[cnm]

Jesus!

This is the same Ayn Rand who partook of collectivism in the form of SS, right?

 

[TNHarley]

Jesus!

This is the same Ayn Rand who partook of collectivism, right?

"Zomg she got SS so everything she said was BS" lol.grow up

 

[cnm]

Collectivism started when the Constitution was ratified in 1787.

The pale, stale, male collective.

But I've always thought of the US Constitution as ratifying selfishness, laying out how the spoils of power shall be distributed amongst the influential class that wrote it.

 

[TNHarley]

The pale, stale, male collective.

You have the life you do because of white people. Gtfo with your racist tripe

 

[jc456]

The pale, stale, male collective.

But I've always thought of the US Constitution as ratifying selfishness, laying out how the spoils of power shall be distributed amongst the influential class that wrote it.

Sounds like a homecoming

 

[Contumacious]

Jesus!

This is the same Ayn Rand who partook of collectivism in the form of SS, right?

WHAT ?