You are too funny.
EVERYTHING to you is binary and dualistic.
To you, Democrats are allegedly beholden to the Democratic Party platform -- but Republicans are not beholden to the Republican Party platform?
To you, all liberals are mindless robots in lock-step, but all conservatives are free, informed, noble spirits?
Baloney!
Grow up, Thor.
And knock it off with the Democratic Plantation. You hear some stupid phrase, and then you mindlessly repeat it.
Life is complex, all people are shades of grey. There is ambiguity in the world. Adults recognize those facts. But you don't want ambiguity. You want absolute certainty. And it doesn't exist.
A society such as ours is a balance of individualism and collectivism. Societies are not just a collection of sovereign individuals all doing their own thing.
That's not a society, that's chaos.
It's too bad you consider anything that smacks of group co-operation as socialism and collectivism and a very bad thing.