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Our nation was NOT built on 'rugged individualism'. That is 'conservative' revisionist myth. Our first settlers were damn near as collective commune as you can get. The Puritans to the North signed compacts and conventions before landing. Communal divisions of labor and resources, each able bodied man and woman owed labor to the group.
you are definitely correct that the Pilgrims tried that.
for a year. many of them starved to death.
then they switched to individualism (they had a much steeper learning curve than modern liberals).
and, oddly, ate pretty well thereafter .