Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Idiots' Guide to Fixing our Politics


Trying to understand the rise of Trump, David Brooks points to our culture's "individualistic/autonomy mindset"  - as if that were a bad thing.   Actually, "rugged individualism", whether opportunistically celebrated by the right - or the by the left, should not be understood as being antithetical to any "community/membership mindset"  In fact, as conservatives rightly point out, the opposite is more true.  Individualism, as in some relative degree of "self-sufficiency", is absolutely necessary for affiliation between equals.  And there lies the rub!