The author comments on the idea of human individuality, with a focus on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the reelection of George W. Bush. One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, of which she was president. She was the oldest living radical feminist among them: the first to demand suffrage, the first to denounce the laws regarding marriage and divorce, the first to declare organized religion the sworn enemy of equality for women. This would be her last public address as head of the woman suffrage movement. The speech Stanton delivered, "Solitude of Self," was to become famous the world over. While the idea of human individuality was a declaration of proud independence, she suggested, it was also a recognition that we are, in fact, a world of Robinson Crusoes, each of us alone on the island of life. During Stanton's time (1815-1902) thousands of reformers like herself--abolitionists, suffragists, temperance workers--committed their lives to understanding better the relation between politics and the human condition. George Bush is not the beginning of something new in America, he is the end of one more round in the ongoing drama of America's struggle with itself to face directly into the meaning--and consequence--of something that cuts deeper than class interests.