Leftism Is UnAmerican

The United States was founded on the principle that every person is a unique individual endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution exist to protect these individual rights from government overreach and to ensure that each citizen can live freely, pursue their own dreams, and be judged on their own merits rather than as part of a group or class.

Leftism, by contrast, is inherently collectivist and group oriented. It views people primarily as members of groups—classes, races, economic categories—rather than as distinct individuals. This fundamental difference makes leftism incompatible with American values. Society is either individual based or group based - classes of people - or all unqiue individiuals. 

History, particularly the former Soviet Union (and others), demonstrates what happens when collectivist ideology gains full control: the state is placed above the individual, personal rights are sacrificed, and dissenters are crushed. The same trajectory threatens America when leftist ideas gain dominance.

American Individualism vs. Leftist Collectivism

America’s founding documents are explicit: governments are instituted among men to secure individual rights, and when government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. The Bill of Rights protects speech, religion, assembly, property, and due process for the individual—not for collectives or classes.

The American Dream is built on the belief that any person, regardless of background, can rise through their own effort, ingenuity, and character. This celebrates uniqueness and personal responsibility.

Leftism rejects this vision. It sees society as composed of competing groups locked in struggle—oppressors vs. oppressed, bourgeoisie vs. proletariat, privileged vs. marginalized. Individuals are reduced to their group identity and expected to serve the collective good as defined by the state or the ruling ideology.

Personal dreams, ambitions, and differences are subordinated to the needs of the group or the “greater good.” This is the exact opposite of the American principle that each person has the right to pursue happiness in their own way, free from coercion.

The former Soviet Union: The True Face of Leftist Collectivism

The Soviet Union provides the clearest historical proof of what leftist collectivism produces when it achieves total power. Far from a system designed to “take care of the poor” or protect human rights, it was a totalitarian one-party state that demanded absolute obedience.

The Communist Party placed the collective (the state, the proletariat, the revolution) above every individual right. People were treated as interchangeable cogs in the machinery of the state—factory workers, farmers, intellectuals—all required to serve the central plan.Those who refused to conform were labeled enemies of the people.

Political prisoners filled the gulags. Independent farmers (kulaks) were liquidated during forced collectivization, causing mass starvation. Dissenters were imprisoned, executed, or sent to psychiatric hospitals. The state decided what speech was allowed, what art was permitted, what jobs people held, and even what thoughts were acceptable.

Individual uniqueness was erased; deviation from the collective line was punished with violence.This was not an aberration. It was the logical outcome of an ideology that prioritizes the collective over the individual and grants the state unlimited power to enforce that priority.

Modern American Leftism Follows the Same Collectivist Logic

Today’s American left—whether democratic socialists, progressives who embrace identity politics, or those pushing ever-expanding government control—operates from the same collectivist foundation. They speak of the “warmth of collectivism,” community solidarity, and group equity, but the underlying view is that people should be categorized and treated according to their group status rather than as unique individuals.

Policies are designed around group outcomes, group privileges, group reparations, and group-based justice rather than equal protection of individual rights.

When government seizes more control over healthcare, education, speech, energy, guns, or the economy in the name of collective fairness, it necessarily diminishes individual liberty - every time. When dissent from leftist orthodoxy—on gender, race, climate, or economics—is punished through cancellation, deplatforming, legal harassment, or institutional pressure, it mirrors the intolerance of collectivist regimes.

The goal is not charity or voluntary help; it is power. Leftism in power seeks to centralize authority so the state (or the party in control of the state) can dictate how resources are distributed, what ideas are acceptable, and how people must live.This trajectory leads toward the same destination as the Soviet Union: one-party dominance, suppression of dissent, and the reduction of free individuals to compliant members of the collective.

Collectivism Creates Division, Not Unity

Ironically, while leftism claims to fight division, its group-based worldview recreates the rigid class structures the American founders rejected. Europe’s history was defined by inherited classes and estates; America was built on the promise of breaking free from Europe's class structure. Leftism reintroduces division by sorting people into permanent victim and oppressor categories, then demanding that government enforce group hierarchies and privileges.

This is the opposite of celebrating the independence and uniqueness of every individual and protecting their right to be different.True American unity comes from shared commitment to individual rights and equal opportunity under the law—not from enforced sameness or group-based outcomes.

Leftism is unAmerican because it is collectivist at its core. It subordinates the individual to the group, the state, or the “collective good,” treating people as interchangeable parts rather than unique human beings with the God-given right to pursue their own happiness.

The former Soviet Union showed the end result: totalitarian control, violence against dissenters, and the destruction of personal liberty. American leftism follows the same ideological path, seeking ever-greater state power under the banner of equity and solidarity.

The founders understood that liberty resides in the individual, not in the collective. Any ideology that reverses that priority is fundamentally at odds with what America stands for. To remain American is to defend individual rights above all else—against every form of collectivism that would reduce free people to cogs in someone else’s wheel.

Leftism is cleary unAmerican and any politician who embraces it is anti-American - not a person who supports the founding values - that made us the most free and successful country in world history.