Default position.
De fault of everybody else for having all these rugged individualistic thoughts. The sooner this deviancy can be corrected, the better. We are all stranger, er, stronger together!
The fasces of ancient Rome consisted of a bundle of rods and an ax strapped together. The Italian leader Benito Mussolini compared his followers to the rods of the fasces. Each rod by itself may be weak, but when many rods are bound together they are strong.
Democrats admire this vision of the world a lot.
“The fasces of ancient Rome consisted of a bundle of rods and an ax strapped together.”
I remember when that symbol was on the back of the U.S. dime. FDR was on the face.