Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism?

 

TGIF: Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism? | The Libertarian Institute

. . . "In Europe, where collectivist anti-fossil-fuels “green” policies have been enacted in the name of combating a conjured-up climate emergency, many people get dangerously cold in the winter. So far, this hasn’t happened on a large scale in America, where the climate collectivists have not been as adept in imposing their lethal program as their European counterparts. Freer markets keep people warmer in winter.

"Zero-sum thinking, which is at the heart of socialism, also has a knack for creating a frigid attitude toward one’s fellow man. When you believe that one person’s gain is another’s, perhaps your loss, you don’t view your successful neighbor with warmth. The victims of Stalin’s collectivist famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, some of whom were driven to cannibalism to survive, probably did not regard their neighbors or even their family members benevolently. Envy, suspicion, and hostility were characteristic of other places where ostensibly well-meaning rulers condemned selfishness and imposed various forms of collectivism. The death toll beggars belief. Some remain in denial about it. We can be certain that those catastrophes did not befall those tens of millions of innocent victims because they were deprived of a chance to vote on which clueless bureaucrats would administer society’s central plan, as Mamdani and his “democratic” socialist followers suggest." . . .

 The warmth of collectivism comes for NYC  

"If it sounds ominous, it's because it is. We Americans like to make our own destiny, chart our own course. The only "warmth" in collectivism is when we all gather around the last lump of coal, hoping it lasts through the night as our leaders take refuge in their mansions. Or the warmth that comes from the flesh of those being burned at the stake for crimes against the collective."

Critics say Mamdani’s vow to swap ‘rugged individualism’ with ‘warmth of collectivism’ has sinister undertone  

"Zohran Mamdani is a dangerous communist who is likely to DESTROY NYC through his dedication to communist ideology. Let’s be clear: COMMUNISM HAS FAILED everywhere it has been tried. NYC will be no different,"[Rep.Lisa McClain] asserted in a post on X."

 "New York Has ENTERED a Point of No Return... | Kevin O'leary"