The Left and Tribalism

American Thinker ^ | 17 Jan, 2024 | Paul Dunlop

[MtnClimber]

The Democrat Party has been taken over by people who want power, the Left. Our system makes it hard to accumulate power. Democrats must destroy our system. Tribalism is a great weapon for doing that.

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

[MtnClimber]

The left thrives on chaos. The worse the better.

[Boomer]

The left is obsessed with power because they are control freaks who believe they are morally and intellectually superior to the little people. They truly believe they have the entitled right to dictate to us for our own good.

They are 1M% wrong of course. They are also quite insane. Not really a newsflash. Most folks on FR has known this long before FR existed.

I truly believe their mental illness predicates their banning from holding any office. They are simply incapable of rational thought. The rigged election of the bumbling buffoon proves this.

[Sicon]

If rank and file Democrat voters ever break through the myriad layers of deception and get a clear view of how they have been manipulated, there will be a fierce cultural and political reckoning.

Don't hold your breath.

[Migraine]

Tribalism explains a lot. It dehumanizes the “other”. All tribes name themselves to mean “The People” (or leftists’ “The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”, “The Enlightened”, “The Woke”, “The Scientific”). Other groups are called by names which mean things like “The Flat-faces”, “the feces-eaters” and other pejoratives.

It is interesting that the lefties have garnered mascots for themselves and enshrined them, because they find them useful rallying symbols. Anyone opposing the lefties are labeled with pejoratives (”nazis”, “knuckle-draggers”, “flat-earthers”, “conspiracy-theorists”, etc.)

The writer’s allusion to tribalism is quite adequate.

[blueunicorn6]

Tribalism is a higher form of butt kissing.

[Jacquerie]

Until the rise of a previously unknown mulatto, race relations in the US were quite good.