The Left and Tribalism

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January 17, 2024

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The leftist Democrat leaders of today only care about getting and keeping power. They don’t care about Blacks or gays or trans or environmentalists. These groups are just weapons of convenience with which to pound the American public into permanent submission. Stoking preexisting tensions in our society, or creating tensions where none exist has been an effective tactic. The Democrats are trying to tribalize America by destroying our current broad-based American culture and replacing it with a tribal culture. In their new tribalism we would get our identity from our differences, slicing and dicing our culture along racial, gender, and environmentalist lines. In primitive cultures someone trying to do this would probably be cast out or punished by the tribe or its leaders for threatening the established order that helps it survive. There will always be radicals and bigots in our society hovering around the fringe, waiting for the chance spread their poison of division and hatred. As a nation we have welcomed them back when we see genuine repentance and strived to keep them marginalized when their hatred persists. But now they have taken over the Democrat Party, our government and large swaths of our culture.

Tribalism’s power is that it creates division. Division can be very helpful when trying to conquer a nation. In today’s world there seem to be few nations governed as a group of tribes that are stable and secure. They might be able to survive perpetual internal conflict, but they cannot survive in a world of external intrigue and national threats if they cannot make decisions and act with dispatch as a unified people. The American Founders understood this. American society has had tribal issues too. Early on the colonies and later the states were our tribes. But the thing that made our society better than other tribal societies was that we shared a common identity and ideal that were more important to us than arbitrary external differences. In the Left’s tribal America every tribe has to tiptoe through the minefield of every other tribe’s delicate sensibilities, while living in fear of having your reputation, your livelihood or your life destroyed.

The reason the Founders didn’t want a regional tribal culture of independent states and the reason the Democrats do want it is the same. Tribal regions are easily conquered and frequently in perpetual chaos. They cannot marshal their collective resources to meet any major crisis. America is stronger when we are all Americans, but weaker when we are Black, White, Hispanic, gay, trans, or gender fluid. A shared sense of identity is critical to the health and resilience of a society and a nation. The idea of being one people. The story we tell ourselves about who we are as a people. Some nations share racial or ethnic unity; some a common history; some a sense that the land in which they live ties them together. The American sense of unity has always been based on principles and ideals about the inherent value, dignity and freedoms bestowed upon us by our Creator. Our society, our government and our nation were designed and constructed to enshrine this.