This sentence is one of the items in the no-longer-on-the-agenda GC GOP platform that seems to have people riled up:

our government was created by the people to work for their individual and collective benefit.

It's a sign of "Progressive ideas such as ‘collectivism’" creeping into the party, according to one email sent to area conservatives.

If they only knew how deep this frightening conspiracy runs:

Here's one to get your blood boiling: a document written by self-styled "revolutionaries" that presumes to tell Americans how to run our country...plenty of Politically Correct jargon about our supposed obligations to some collective ideal but not one word about God. And it's already in wide distribution at schools supported with taxpayer dollars and throughout the halls of power.

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[Andrew Brod]

It's a sign of "Progressive ideas such as ‘collectivism’" creeping into the party.

Very sophisticated, these people. Reminds me of the conservative claim that Obama's a fascist because "National Socialist" has the word "socialist" in it.

[Billy Jones]

Andy wrote: "Reminds me of the conservative claim that Obama's a fascist because "National Socialist" has the word "socialist" in it."

Hadn't seen that one before. I wouldn't argue that Obama isn't fascist but for the Right to be calling him so means either, the Right is a bunch of Liberals or the pot calls the President black.

And we know the Right ain't a bunch of Liberals-- don't we?

[Collards]

The lack of collective effort for the common good is most evident in how Washington works.......