It's sad that the level of discourse has sunk to the point where disagreements have to be phrased as personal attacks propped by meaningless cliches. "Rugged individualism" is just code for nativism, paranoia, racism, xenophobia, and conformity to the lowest standards. Rugged individualism is redneck speak for glorying in narcissism and abrogating responsibility for other people. It's funny how threatened these people are at even the mildest suggestion that the world would be a better place if we showed more compassion, care and empathy for each other.