From Communitarianism to Liberalism

Communitarianism, is when citizens are compelled in their own best interest to contribute equally to powerful state structures that meet many of their needs, 

Libertarianism, holds that each individual is responsible for their own welfare and their own luck, and must not be compelled to help others. 

As Mark Lilla argues, the cultural axis goes from traditionalism, in which citizens are bound by custom, cultural heritage and divinely revealed natural justice (with a big stick for deviants) serving time-honoured concepts of gender, class and race, 

to liberalism, in accordance with which all humans are granted equal rights, together with the freedom to be different where that doesn’t restrict the freedoms of others.

In the goings on in the US Senate one yearns for the day when one only had to face the enemy to their front and watch that they weren’t stabbed in the back at their rear.

Can one   frame ‘identity politics’ as a self-indulgent distraction from the vital business of creating a shared vision of America that all Americans can believe in

Yes

Some activists find it necessary to validate an intellectual experience by redescribing it in bodily terms – to purify a synaptic encounter by rendering it hormonal. On overturning a car, 
'It was  the first time in a long while I felt alive.' (Frightening stuff)