“Whenever loyalty to the group eclipses loyalty to shared rules, corruption flourishes.”
There is a hidden assumption in this article.
When someone is loyal to their group there is no such thing as corruption within the group.
In fact corruption is when you allow anyone else access to resources that your group could have instead.
That has been the human condition since we crawled out of the caves.
It was a great experiment to see if we could change those old axioms.
In fact—while we accuse leftists of Utopia—it was our side that has been very Utopian.
We believed in “magic dirt”—the notion that if you brought anyone in the world to a nation with Western values they would eventually adopt Western values.
The experiment has failed.
The only question is how long it will take before we abandon our Utopian vision and start facing the reality of the human condition.
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
Rand did not take the next step—to recognize that if you refuse to be a member of a tribe all the other tribes will eventually stomp all over you.
You quote Ann Rand, well said, she saw the future clearly. The next step will drastic. Lock and load.