"the Left is at war with individual rights"

Where do you get this nonsense?

Flowery words in documents centuries old mean little in a world where truth itself has lost value. These documents are interpreted however people want and bad people take the greater liberties.

How is "the left" at war with individual rights? Is it they seeking to ban books or are you talking about private ownership of military weapons?

I am a communitarian. I adhere to neither ideology but see the right of citizens to lead reasonably stable and predictable lives as more important than stirring phrases from times as close to the middle ages as to the present day.

The coin whose obverse is freedom has responsibility as its reverse. We love to prattle about the one and are enraged at the other.