Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

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1. ‘…why take the individualism out of the individuals…”

   Because then the government defines your individuality. They then expect you to conform to your government accepted ‘individuality’.

2. L – The individual is the smallest minority. The sacredness of the individual person is foundational to
   Judeo-Christianity, to being made in the image of God (Imago Dei). From which the Western concept of
   individual Rights being sacred; now described in secular terms as human rights arose. Both the legal and
   political standing of the individual is derived from the moral status being foundational

   The political ploy of Cult. Marxist identity politics, ascribing political opinions to groups based on
   immutable characteristics, real or imagined, is a clever attempt to seize power. This simply by the
   fraudulent claim; that they speak and act and think(!) for those identity collectives.

   It’s illegitimate a power grab depends on deception, stoking fear of an unknown enemy. Whomever?
   The individual who fails to exercise their responsibility for self, soon discover It’s grabbed opportunistically
   by a tyrants(small or large), who don’t have your best interest in mind.

   It’s a very old story that never ceases… Be Not Afraid of self-government, but do fear the lack of it.

   1. Great comment! Too many believe that morality and rights arose out of whole cloth from nowhere and that, absent Judaeo-Christian teaching, we would still have western civilization. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

   2. Socialists used the slogan “workers of the world, unite!” A long time Socialist thought about that for a while and concluded that workers of the world had little in common culturally. He thought peoples of a Nation had more in common, a cultural identity. His name was Mussolini, and he came up with Fascism. Socialism combined with Nationalism. Some other dude had his own version with racism sprinkled on top. He invented Nazism. That’s the way I understand it, short version.

      1. That’s a pretty good, and succinct summary explaining the differences, and easy enough that even your standard, run-of-the-mill, fascio-leftist would have been able to understand… if they bothered to have an independent thought in their feeble brains.

3. – And individual cultures and rights really, REALLY do matter. As Lily Tang Williams pointed-out while thrashing David Hogg over his gun-control shtick, Chairman Mao’s red hordes murdered 20 million Chinese during the Cultural Revolution: https://angry.net/blog2/?p=42586 I guess they were just different, or something.

   I really wish Canada had the equivalent of the U.S. Second Amendment; but considering how freely American (and our) politicians ignore Constitutional Rights whenever they find them inconvenient, I suppose it wouldn’t make much difference……

4. If the individual is not free the “collective” is not free.