Collective Failure

Reem Maghribi on The Grauniad’s Cif says ‘Cultural and religious groups should not be addressed collectively but as individuals who have a vote and a voice within a democracy.’

Here is my comment on it:

This is - quite obviously - why 'the left' has failed. At first it believed the myth of the class war, but when it discovered that the 'working class' did not act as one homogeneous group following the path the liberal middle-class laid out for it, when it found that collectivism could not work, the left began to cast around for other groupings; women, ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, and now religious groupings and so forth that it could claim to 'represent'. All this too has failed as this article points out in the case of treating all those of one religion as one.
Collectivism is the problem, never the solution.