A tweet that reads “just a quick reminder that a society exists to serve the people within it. there’s no such thing as a person being ‘useless’ to a society, only a society that is useless to a person”
Said it before and I’ll say it again – the idea that “the Left is about collectives and the Right is about individuals” is decades out of date.
The Left is about people working collectively for the good of individuals; the Right is about people working individually (“taking responsibility”) for the good of collective abstractions (e.g. “the economy”, “the traditional family”, “making America great again”), etc.
“the collective good of individuals” is a fucking collective abstraction you utter dolt
Yeah, you might want a bit of help with reading comprehension there.
The Left is about people working collectively,
(take a breath),
for the good of individuals.
Not “the collective good of individuals”. The individual good of individuals. Collective action; individual benefits. Like whether each individual can afford a house, can get the job they want, can go about their business without fear of being shot, can marry the person they love.
The Right, by contrast, thinks it’s OK if some people get only tiny crumbs as long as the whole economic pie – a collective entity – keeps getting bigger. Or if corporations – whose collective nature is written into the very word – keep getting richer. It is the Right, not the Left, that supports the legal fiction that corporations are people.
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