{"id":28608,"date":"2010-08-19T08:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/kirsten-powers-individualism-sucks\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T08:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:20:05","slug":"kirsten-powers-individualism-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/kirsten-powers-individualism-sucks.php","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten Powers: Individualism Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TGqOp7pMT6I\/AAAAAAAAMws\/atYij3v7wFk\/s1600\/KirstenPowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/38bed_KirstenPowers.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Says Community of \"higher value\" than the Individual<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Fox News liberal commentator Kirsten Powers was interviewed by libertarian-conservative columnist Matt Lewis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/08\/16\/q-and-a-with-kirsten-powers-of-fox-news\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>. On her personal religious views:<\/p><blockquote><p>I also now see humanity as totally interconnected and am completely anti-individualism. It's sad that Americans believe that individualism is so great, because I really do believe we would be a better country if we held the concept of community as a higher value.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><strong>Calls fellow Alaskan Sara Palin the ultimate Individualist<\/strong><\/p><p>Powers, a native Alaskan, went on to say that while she agrees with Sarah Palin on \"almost nothing,\" she admitted that Palin is indeed the \"quintessential Alaskan woman.\"  Continuing:<\/p><blockquote><p>There's a popular T-shirt line in that says, \"Alaskan Women Kick Ass,\" which pretty much sums up how Alaskans view their women. Alaskans are very independent, self confident, nonconformist and anti-elitism... they fish, hunt, camp, ride snow machines. Alaska has a history of fierce frontier women and that legacy continues...<\/p><p>there has always been a sense that people who aren't from Alaska are kind of wussy. Alaskans believe they are special and different and \"tougher\"... I see this attitude emanate from her in terms of how she just dismissed the Beltway crowd and East Coast elites.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Editor's Note - I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Lewis back in the Spring at a Blogger's conference in Austin with Rick Perry and Andrew Breitbart.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/38bed_7828681836623105417-7104520465870737353?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Community of \"higher value\" than the IndividualFrom Eric Dondero:Fox News liberal commentator Kirsten Powers was interviewed by libertarian-conservative columnist Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller. On her personal religious views:I also now see humanity as totally interconnected and am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/kirsten-powers-individualism-sucks.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}