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While you've made valid points for consideration about the blue tribe's blindspots, you're riffing off a different definition of anti-social than I used. You're talking about larger appreciation of social conformity, where I'm talking about creating immediate conflict. Furthermore, US society is deeply rooted in individualism and so professing individualism is not leftist. In fact I'd say your framing does well to il…
> While you've made valid points for consideration about the blue tribe's blindspots, you're riffing off a different definition of anti-social than I used. I know—my point is that you’re using a quite liberal sense of what’s “anti-social.” > You're talking about larger appreciation of social conformity, where I'm talking about creating immediate conflict. During her confirmation hearing, Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown c…
Because she was looking for approval from the Democratic Party? Are you asking why the Democratic Party cares about the opinions of the "activist left" ?
> But most of the US, from the Puritan-descended WASP northeast, to the Midwest, to the South, never struck me as especially individualist
Religion in the Northeast seems more like a token thing rather than a way of life (eg "Christmas and Easter Catholic"), and despite communal structures the entire US is still steeped in individualism. One of the current major political issues of the political right, anti-mask / anti-vaccine, rests mainly on appeals to individual freedom! It's front and center in the founding documents - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".