“United We Stand” is a quote so engrained in the American fabric it is difficult to provide proper citation. Americans have known that unity is required for us to overcome obstacles and achieve a greater prosperity ever since Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry were motivating colonists to be courageous and do something the world had never seen.
The newly inaugurated mayor of New York invoked this same sentiment in his inauguration speech, asking his constituents to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
This bold statement, however, carries with it an alarm we must not miss. Rather than using the term “unity” he chose “collectivism,” intentionally inserting all the undertones of the socialism that the new mayor openly accepts…