Collectivism is what allows our politicians to retain and expand their power over our lives.  Rights are not something granted to us by the government.  We are born with rights.  Tragically, the majority of voters have allowed the government to take our rights away.

It is individualism that the American Founders elevated into political prominence and it is individualism that most politicians and governments, including America’s, find most annoying because it is the bulwark against arbitrary power.

If, as the Declaration of Independence states, individual human beings have unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no one may violate these rights. Every adult individual is sovereign, a self-ruler and not subject to the rule of others. (This is why Americans are referred to as citizens, not as subjects, like so many around the globe.)

Read it all:  Individualism, the Collectivists’ Nemesis