Presidential election season for many years has been that time when politicians seeking high office tell us that they are the "leaders" who can "bring us together."   The purpose of good government, of course, is to allow us to be ourselves, to live our own lives according to our own values and to resist that awful and insistent screech to "bring us together." The most awful political systems in modern history have proudly proclaimed that all of us now think and work and play and feel as one.  In fact, that is the salient feature of Nazism, Bolshevism, Maoism, and Fascism.  The Hitler Youth, for example, was intended to bring the rich and the poor, the city and the country, the Bavarian and the Prussian together as equals, all doing the same hard marching, all living in common barracks, all seeing themselves as part of a united people.  The left loves this sort of homogenization of life guided by the sting of the state and...(Read Full Article)