A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
But please, go be Captain Save-A-Ho.
You need to have that quote printed on a super size banner and flown all over America.
With our current government, you would probably be shot down or charged with spreading disinformation upon landing.
It is a sad state of affairs that you even have to make that statement openly to make your valid point, and sadder that the Left has succeeded in making many men care only for their own personal affair and nothing more.
It isn’t an accident that the Left has focused on destroying men and masculinity, and it isn’t an accident that I explicitly singled out men who “care for their own personal affair and nothing more” in the preceding paragraph.
The Left fully understands that strong men are an impediment to their tyranny.
That has been just one of the goals of the Left, to divide people up into small groups, whittling society down into small tribes of family and friends, where there is no societal cohesion and people are only concerned about what happens to themselves.
When that happens (and is now apparently a reality) these small groups of self-centered “nobody else counts” groups will be destroyed one by one, because there is nothing beyond a tiny group that will come to their aid when they are attacked.
Sad. The Left has succeeded in this brilliantly to the point there are people who think they are somehow winning by pulling into a shell, which is what they want. The Left is all about Tribalism, small groups who care only for themselves.
Surely not E Pluribus Unum, many become one.
It is Ex uno, multis, where one becomes many.
And that is the goal of the Left.
They cannot destroy and conquer us when many of us become one. But it is no problem for them if one of us become many, which is Tribalism, the result of trying to retreat into your small group of family and friends for “safety”.
In life, you are one of three things, I have been told: A Wolf. A Sheep. Or a Sheepdog.
The job of a Sheepdog is to care for all sheep, not just those in your immediate herd.
And that is because a Wolf is an indiscriminate enemy. If you don’t care that a Wolf is attacking the nearby herd because “it isn’t YOUR herd”, then you aren’t a Sheepdog, because YOUR herd is ALWAYS going to be next.
And it boils down to this: If you aren’t a Sheepdog, you are either a Wolf or a Sheep. There is no other choice.
And many, including some on this very forum, have made the choice to be a Sheep, even if they want to appear to wear the skin of a Sheepdog.
And in that, they become the unwitting allies of the Wolves, and in their own self justifying mode, will eventually become Wolves themselves.