>>as a whole it is a seductive mistake.
The seductive mistakes are socialism, communism, collectivism, teacher's unions, heath care, global warming, judicial activism, social security, France, Islam, and (you get the idea)
Freedom of the individual is the tenet which has been slowly removed in the US but stamped clearly in our Constitution.
The goverment of the jungle has worked everywhere it has been tried. And later changed to something worse.
Read the preamble. There are other things besides individual freedom which were important to the founders.