PoliticalChic
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…and its destruction of America.
1.While nominally faithful to the meaning of e pluribus unum, ‘out of many, one,’ the ascendancy of the Democrat Party, the Left, is due to the very opposite: divide and conquer. The fact is, fighting against both ends of this phrase ‘one nation, under God,’ has proven eminently successful for the Left.
2. Give credit where it is due, the Democrats recognized an immutable human characteristic.
“Humans, like other primates, are tribal animals. We need to belong to groups, which is why we love clubs and teams. Once people connect with a group, their identities can become powerfully bound to it. They will seek to benefit members of their group even when they gain nothing personally. They will penalize outsiders, seemingly gratuitously. They will sacrifice, and even kill and die, for their group.” Tribal World
Turns out that this desire trumps…no pun intended….the conservative American value, individualism. Someone should have told Ayn Rand.
3. “[Amy] Chua said that America’s founding—premised more on a shared set of ideals, and less on a shared ethnic or cultural identity—makes the country’s challenge particularly glaring and unique.
“Patriotism is not just about singing the anthem very loudly,” she said. “If you want a really unified country and to give meaning to this idea of a strong America, it has to be a country where the constitutional rights feel real and legitimate to all groups.”
Can America Survive Tribalism?
4. The word ‘feel’ is key. In reality, America today is the least racist nation around, but the Democrats/Liberals/Left, the owners of most of the venues of dissemination of information, have maintained a false narrative of the very opposite. Hopefully, most voters will see this in the conclusions of the Mueller Report, proving that the media has lied to them for two solid years.
5. Still, ripping the scab off old wounds, pretending that America today is the America of a century or two ago, works. “You’ve been oppressed, held back, can do no wrong, deserve, deserve, deserve…..” are successful political memes.
Why, at a time when racism is arguably at its lowest ebb, has black resentment’, a major factor in elections [Biden: “They want to put y’all back in chains!”] actually grown?
“Politics today, however, is defined less by economic or ideological concerns than by questions of identity…. the left focuses less on creating broad economic equality and more on promoting the interests of a wide variety of marginalized groups, such as ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees, women, and LGBT people. The right, meanwhile, has redefined its core mission as the patriotic protection of traditional national identity,…” Francis Fukuyama - Against Identity Politics | The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
And, they get away with it with lies, which their constituents need not believe….but simply pretend to believe [Trump is a Russian spy!!!]
Americans don't have to vote Democrat.....as long as 'tribes' do.
1.While nominally faithful to the meaning of e pluribus unum, ‘out of many, one,’ the ascendancy of the Democrat Party, the Left, is due to the very opposite: divide and conquer. The fact is, fighting against both ends of this phrase ‘one nation, under God,’ has proven eminently successful for the Left.
2. Give credit where it is due, the Democrats recognized an immutable human characteristic.
“Humans, like other primates, are tribal animals. We need to belong to groups, which is why we love clubs and teams. Once people connect with a group, their identities can become powerfully bound to it. They will seek to benefit members of their group even when they gain nothing personally. They will penalize outsiders, seemingly gratuitously. They will sacrifice, and even kill and die, for their group.” Tribal World
Turns out that this desire trumps…no pun intended….the conservative American value, individualism. Someone should have told Ayn Rand.
3. “[Amy] Chua said that America’s founding—premised more on a shared set of ideals, and less on a shared ethnic or cultural identity—makes the country’s challenge particularly glaring and unique.
“Patriotism is not just about singing the anthem very loudly,” she said. “If you want a really unified country and to give meaning to this idea of a strong America, it has to be a country where the constitutional rights feel real and legitimate to all groups.”
Can America Survive Tribalism?
4. The word ‘feel’ is key. In reality, America today is the least racist nation around, but the Democrats/Liberals/Left, the owners of most of the venues of dissemination of information, have maintained a false narrative of the very opposite. Hopefully, most voters will see this in the conclusions of the Mueller Report, proving that the media has lied to them for two solid years.
5. Still, ripping the scab off old wounds, pretending that America today is the America of a century or two ago, works. “You’ve been oppressed, held back, can do no wrong, deserve, deserve, deserve…..” are successful political memes.
Why, at a time when racism is arguably at its lowest ebb, has black resentment’, a major factor in elections [Biden: “They want to put y’all back in chains!”] actually grown?
“Politics today, however, is defined less by economic or ideological concerns than by questions of identity…. the left focuses less on creating broad economic equality and more on promoting the interests of a wide variety of marginalized groups, such as ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees, women, and LGBT people. The right, meanwhile, has redefined its core mission as the patriotic protection of traditional national identity,…” Francis Fukuyama - Against Identity Politics | The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
And, they get away with it with lies, which their constituents need not believe….but simply pretend to believe [Trump is a Russian spy!!!]
Americans don't have to vote Democrat.....as long as 'tribes' do.
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