Societal Expectations

When a country’s societal concerns are those of the individual over those of the collective, the productive strength of nationalism’s cohesiveness and pride is diminished. Individualism and Globalism movements have detracted from once-dominant nationalism worldwide, not for the better. A nation's sovereignty, defined in the character, accomplishments,  and rule of law of its society, made it unique, separate, and apart in the community of nations but common in national identification. Progressive Democrat governance here in the U.S. has promoted individualism to the extreme, fracturing our collective national pride, our very sovereignty, turning our once most ethnic, racial homogenized nation into a quagmire of partisan separatism. Others have described it as tribalism. Separatism, defined as separating a group of people from a larger body of people on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, or gender for the purpose of fostering dissension, better describes the movement.  It confounds me why it is not so evident to everyone that we don't rise en mass to root out its perpetrators. But then again, our unassailable freedom of speech hoists us up on our own petard.