Sure, you can be as creative as you like in defining terms, but what is the point?

I made it very clear in my original story what sort of collectivism I was talking about. The article was about the limits of individualism. It was about how many of our greatess challenges can only be solved together with collectively coordinated actions rather than by individual uncoordinated actions.

The drug war is in many ways an example of toxic individualistic thinking. This belief that those caught up in the business made completely indepedent decisions rather than realizing they were products of bad environment. Does this mean dealing drugs should not be punished? Nope, but it means that the efforts should be more directed at fixing the environment that produce people that deal drugs and people who consume them.

Drug use tends to be the outcome of people living in a miserable state. This miserable state is in large part an outcome of the overly individualistic nature of American society. Every man is deemed captain of their own destiny and thus those who for various reasons fall between the cracks are punished rather than helped. The conservative belief is that people can be scared straight. Through threats and intimidation people will be made to behave.

Virtues taught by Jesus such as compassion and empathy for sinners is by the ones who loudly call themselves Christian labeled as "soft on crime." Being compassionate is mocked and ridiculed.