Thank you.
What I object to are “New Deal” programs. And “Great Society” programs. And “War on Poverty”, PPACA, etc ad nauseum.
Individual responsibility has been supplanted by government and corporate paternalism. The lure of compassion has led to paying able bodied adults to not work, while foreigners invade and fill those jobs at illegal wages. These things have fostered weak people and a weak country.
But the main point is that communitarianism opens avenues of attack on foundations of society. Homosexual demands for “marriage” are just one example. Demands that religious groups pay for contraception/ abortifacients are another. Communitarianism requires that every group be equal, or it is “unfair”. This allows small groups to wield the power of law to mold society.
I want to expand on post 37, for those who think that 1780 may have been some sort of aberration.
The 1780 federal legislation related to married employees, was expanded in 1794, 1798, 1802 and so on.